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If you haven't had a chance to dig into the fourth full-length from the sensitive, genre-hopping beat geeks of Hot Chip, it's streaming in full starting now over at MySpace. Album's out 2/9 via Astralwerks.

Reuters - Polite and nattily dressed, Alexis Clarke and Owen Taylor are the rare musicians who show up early for an interview. But then again, most of the members of U.K. act Hot Chip defy expectations. They've been called everything from synth pop to indie pop to alternative dance, but the truth lies somewhere in the intersection of all three.

Australia's Triple J has a good thing going with the segment it's dubbed Like A Version, semi-regularly coaxing artists to record an exclusive cover for broadcast. One day less than a year ago, we posted up the session in which Bon Iver covered Feist's "The Park." Today it's Grizzly Bear, who've been on tour down under, stopping into the station...

'One Life Stand' band say they'll be in Somerset