Nialler9 — Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot will release his third DFA Records album What Follows on May 6th this year. Guests include Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, David Kitt’s New Jackson, Jay Green (of American punk bands Orchid and Panthers) along with regular... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Outsider artist and improvisational musician Lonnie Holley, just played London's Meltdown Fest on Monday (8/24) which was a collaborative performance with Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor. (This year's Meltdown, which also featured Young Marble Giants, was�... more info

Stereogum — Hot Chip’s new album Why Make Sense? is coming out next month, and we posted first single “Huarache Lights” a while back. Today, the BBC DJ Annie Mac debuted the shivery, emotive synthpop jam “Need You Now,” and now the video is already onl... more info

Stereogum — Last year, Hot Chip’s frontman Alexis Taylor put out his first solo album, Awaits Barbarians, but the chirpy British group haven’t released anything as a collective since 2012′s In Our Heads. In an interview last year, Taylor confirmed that Hot... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Money Mark, Sinkane, more at Atomic Bomb! rehearsal (more by Rebecca Greenfield) Yesterday we mentioned David Byrne's Luaka Bop label is celebrating 25 years with a few NYC events this October, and that one of those was the previously-announced Atomi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Alexis Taylor @ Manhattan Inn 5/04/2014 (via @brooklynvegan instagram) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Alexis Taylor (of Hot Chip), The Yum Dee Days @ Rough Trade If... more info

Nialler9 — Camden Crawl took place once more in London a few weeks ago for the 19th edition after a year off and having debuted in Dublin for the first time in 2012 and returning in 2013 in the city. CC14 returned to London once more and featured a lineup that... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (photo via @jorge_elbrecht) Tickets for Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor's show at Rough Trade go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the This Will Destroy You, Future Death and Silent Land Time Machine Halloween show at Bowery Ballroom go... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Alexis Taylor w/ Hot Chip at Coachella 2013 (more by Wei Shi) Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor released his new solo album, Await Barbarians, last week (6/17), and he's coming to North America soon to support it. He was supposed... more info

The Telegraph — Await Barbarians strikes a balance between a kind of country folksiness and offbeat futurism, says Neil McCormick more info