Tag Archives: Hot Chip

Jon & Brion & Robert & Wyatt (and Hot Chip and of Montreal)

So tell me, is January too early in the year to start playing favorites with and making predictions about which albums are going to end up being the year’s best? I sure as hell thought so when I posted about Animal Collective’s newest opus last Wednesday, otherwise I would’ve come right out and admitted […]

“…for the Benefit of Humans and Animals.” - The Edicts of Ashoka, 3rd c. BCE

With a full week of the brand new year firmly behind us I think it’s safe to say that 2009 hasn’t begun on the most humane of notes. Iraq continues to be plagued by suicide bombers. Tensions between nuclear superpowers India and Pakistan are heightened after the revelation that the men responsible for the Mumbai […]

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Two)

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites. I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them. Here are five more… Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]

“Lemonade Was a Popular Drink, and It Still Is…” © Keith Edward Elam

Unless you’re planning on busting out your old Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine so you can mix it together with some of the snow blanketing the country right now and make a tasty homemade lemon icy it’s not really the season for lemonade. I’m not generally a fan of warm beverages myself, but after the ice […]