Tag Archives: Hot Chip

Fresh From the Frialator

As I noted in yesterday’s blog entry, UK Indie-Dance outfit Hot Chip holds the top spot for most listens out of all the music on my hard drives and hand-held digital listening devices according to the calculations of Last.fm and their Audioscrobbler software. I make no bones about it either; I love the shit […]

Wanna Bone?

Today was supposed to be the day I’ve been waiting nearly two years for. Today, one of my favorite bands of the New Millennium (even though they’ve been making records since the tail-end of the last decade of the last Millennium) was supposed to releases their ninth studio album. I’ve been looking forward […]

So Many Records / So Little Time

In my write-up on Chairlift’s new album from Tuesday’s “shuffle” post I shared a glimpse of the lack of awareness of my own music collection that I sometimes face. What’s even more absurd than realizing I’ve been regularly listening to a song all my friends have been asking me to find them for months […]

“Play This In Stere-ere-o…” © Mr. Jolico’s Rhyme Partner

Since my club-going career started when I was about thirteen years old I probably have about a thousand anecdotes similar to the one I trotted out in yesterday’s post. But the sad thing is, since the incident in question, which occurred close to two years ago, I’ve been “clubbing” only a scant few times. Perhaps […]

Count Me In for the Night

If the “great outdoors” is my “cathedral” than I suppose the discotheque is my altar. Seriously, I’ve had numerous “religious experiences” during my lifetime and nightclubs are the most frequent locations in which they’ve occured. Before you ask, no I wasn’t drunk or on drugs, so these bursts of seemingly supernatural energy weren’t the byproduct […]