NEU!, the post-Kraftwerk krautrock project led by Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger, is being celebrated with a new box set for the 50th anniversary of their debut album, which was released in 1972. The NEU! 50! vinyl box set will include the group’s first three studio albums — NEU!, NEU! 2 and NEU! 75. The CD version of the bo...

Shawn Mendes has joined the flock of musicians who have covered Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1984 tune “Dancing In The Dark.” (Hot Chip’s is my personal favorite.) In a new Tommy Hilfiger campaign, Mendes (whose Springsteen influence is well-documented) sings his rendition and models a slew of collared shir...

The last time Hot Chip released an album was in 2019, when they unveiled the great A Bath Full Of Ecstasy. Various members have popped up here and there since, and the group recently collaborated with Ibibio Sound Machine on their new album Electricity. Now, Hot Chip are returning with their own new collection. It’s called Freakout/Rel...

The band have also announced a number of London shows for SeptemberThe post Hot Chip announce new album ‘Freakout/Release’ and share single ‘Down’ appeared first on NME.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Toronto dance-rockers Holy Fuck. Two years ago, the band teamed up with friends like Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and POND’s Nicholas Allbrook on their album Deleter, but that record came out just as the pandemic was hitting, and Holy Fuck didn’t exactly get t...