The Maccabees, Emeli Sande, Rustie and Hot Chip also tipped to feature in the shortlist

It was a picture perfect evening at the Hollywood Bowl for the KCRW World Music Festival series as the trio of Hot Chip, Passion Pit, and Omar Souleyman filled the night with chirpy synthesizers and pulsating beats. Hot Chip are no strangers to rocking the Hollywood Bowl while Passion Pit showed why they had a [...]

The bands will be playing in East London as part of the Oxjam fundraiser

Hot Chip’s breezy disco jam “How Do You Do” is one of the purest moments of pleasure on their new album In Our Heads. And now they’ve stretched that moment out into infinity, recruiting Scandinavian space-disco master Todd Terje to give the song a dizzy dance odyssey of a remix. The Terje remix lasts for [...

'There's always exciting records being made' says the singer