NME - The Daily Download — We've gathered the ten best free downloads floating around the Web this week. So listen, download, and load 'em up onto your iPods. 1. Hot Chip – ‘She Wolf (Shakira Cover)’ If there were ever a band meant to cover Shakira’s hit with an elec... more info

Stereogum — Hot Chip visited the Jo Whiley’ show on BBC Radio 1 on Saturday to do a live-in-the-studio version of “I Feel Better” and a cover of Shakira’s “She Wolf.” The “She Wolf” single was a step in an electro/disco direction for Shakira, so ... more info

Abeano — Whilst we were filling up on Vitamin D on Primrose Hill this weekend, Hot Chip were sweating synths down in the BBC Live Lounge. One Life Stand was an album which saw the band kick-start a journey out of their gawky, sexless shells into ... more info

Pitchfork — Hot Chip side project alert! Back in February, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Alexis Taylor briefly mentioned to Clash Music that a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Al Doyle and percussionist Felix Martin that was in the works: "Al and Fel... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Guest blog - Hot Chip's singer pays tribute to Big Star songwriter Alex Chilton, who died recently. I was a massive Alex Chilton fan. Really, really obsessed with his music, particularly his solo stuff. Like a lot of people I started with Big Star, ... more info

Pitchfork — Yesterday Alex Chilton, the Memphis-raised singer, songwriter, performer, and producer, died in New Orleans. He was 59. It's impossible to express how much Chilton's work has meant to music in the last 40 or so years, particularly underground and ind... more info

Stereogum — Hot Chip made some of my favorite videos of the last decade, because they’ve got great taste in directors and they do both conceptual and humorous really well. And when your singer’s voice is as fragile and tender as Alexis Taylor’s, the humor ... more info

Guardian Music — Kylie wants to work with them. Kraftwerk already have. Hot Chip are becoming superstars – and they're horrifiedAlexis Taylor is sitting in a London gastropub, staring at his lunch. He looks a little crestfallen, but then Taylor always looks a ... more info

Guardian Music — Academy, NewcastleHot Chip walk on to deafening ­applause â€¦ on tape. Then the real ­audience start clapping, not just at their arrival, but at the audacity of such a jape. The south London quintet that emerged in 2004 with a song about ... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — “I’m sure there are people who think of us like that, people that don’t know what we’re really about.” says Hot Chip’s resident pocket heartbreaker Alexis Taylor. “There are people out there who probably ... more info