I encourage you all to start your week off right with a sexy new single from Hot Chip. My favourite memory of Hot Chip was watching them at Coachella 2010, an older couple standing near me clearly wasn’t diggin’, and said they were just “electronic disco,” which made me wonder what acoustic disco sounds like…

Their new track Flutes is an infectious booty shaker, and it’s going to be on their new album “In Our Heads” which comes out in June on Domino Records.

Hot Chip is hitting The Commodore on September 15th which feels like 5 billion years from now but you can get tickets now and they’re going fast.

posted by @EstabanBelChere

Last week we left you with another fav show from last year, our chat with TWO local talents, Andrew Allen and the Reckoners.

Andrew Allen and The Reckoners on the interview show.

But this week we are back with some ALL-NEW.

This week we’ve got another undiscovered chilled-out, Scandinavian electronic group. Meet WhoMadeWho!

Yes, WhoMadeWho are named after the AC/DC song, but they sound NOTHING Like AC/DC.  These guys DO sound a lot like Miike Snow and Hot Chip, so yeah you should prolly like ‘em a lot.

The guys from the band were so jetlagged that one of the guys was sleeping beside us as Thomas and I did the interview. We had to be quiet! Poor Thomas was so dead tired when we chatted that he couldn’t remember the English names of his band’s songs. Luckily, the soundcheck kept him up during the interview.

WhoMadeWho on the interview show

WhoMadeWho “Satisfaction” (Benny Bonassi cover) A club classic reinterpreted.

WhoMadeWho “Keep Me In My Plane” Sweet opening bassline. Since English is a second language to these guys, the lyrics to their songs are always so literal and direct. This one is about obviously a fear of flying.

WhoMadeWho “I Lost My Voice” (Moulinex remix) I love Moulinex remixes. Here are more direct lyrics about a singer’s worst fear: losing his voice.

the interview show is everywhere! (interviewshow[at]gmail.com) @interview_show

www.cjsf.ca (Vancouver, BC, Mondays 4:30-5pm PST and Wednesdays 12:30am PST)
www.ckdu.ca (Halifax, NS, Saturdays 1:30-2:00am AST)
www.radiocfxu.ca (Campus Community Radio, Antigonish, NS, Fridays 11pm-12am AST)
www.cfru.ca (University of Guelph Radio, ON, Tuesdays 3pm EST)
www.umfm.com (Winnipeg’s Hit Free Radio, MB, Fridays 6-6:30pm CST)
www.caperradio.com (Cape Breton University Radio, NS, Wednesdays 2:30-3pm AST and Fridays 5:30-6pm AST)
Permalink: http://winniecooper.net/tag/scott-wood/

Surfer Blood, my fave new band have a new video for Swim(to reach the end).

Also just announced an April 5th date in Vancouver.  So gd excited.  Check their other tour dates. Their album Astro Coast is amaxxxing.

Please excuse that weird thing in the middle of the screen, I think the video was ripped from p4k or something.  whatever.

Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes

Also because it’s Friday and you should jam out, here’s some sweet goodies to help get you get through it.

Bag Raiders (Lcd Soundsystem cover) – Daft Punk Is Playing On My Nintendo

Bikini Kill – I Wish I Was Him (Noise Addict Cover)

Tanlines – Real Life (Memory Tapes remix)

Grizzly Bear – Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)

Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (Afghan Raiders Remix)

Tune Yards – Hatari (Hatari Remix by Karn)

Eddie Murphy – Party All The Time

This weekend try to not be an indie douche bag and lets all have sum fun.

Junior Boys – In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix)

Electrelane - To The East

Hot Chip - Boy From School (Acoustic)

Some heavy weight remixes for the weekend.  

Ewan gives Hot Chip his 10 minute disco treatment.

Hot Chip - Hold On (Ewan Pearson Remix)

Checked out the new Metronomy album yet? 

Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Kris Menace Remix)

We were sorry to hear that house legend Frankie Knuckles recently lost a leg to diabetes complications.  We wish for a speedy recovery.  

Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Dub)

Dan Snaith admits that he is a complete nerd. (He has a PhD in Mathematics.) But more importantly, he makes electronic music strongly influenced by the Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys sound. A few years ago, most people knew him as Manitoba. But a strange lawsuit put an end to that. Snaith is tired of talking about the whole ordeal in interviews, so I avoided the subject. However, it is an interesting story, so I lifted it from exclaim! magazine below.

From exclaim! magazine…

When electronic psych-pop wizard Dan Snaith was greeted by an email from someone who (sort of) shared his nom de plume Manitoba (under which Snaith released two well-received albums, most notably the creative breakthrough of 2003’s psychedelic wonderwall Up In Flames), little did he know that this stranger was in actuality a hater intent on taking his name away from him right at a time when the buzz was spreading like wildfire. But with one simple click of the mouse, Snaith was looking head-on into the malicious wishes of a man named Handsome Dick Manitoba.

“He was like, ‘You gotta change your name,’ and we were just like, ‘Are you kidding? This is the most ridiculous thing ever,’” recalls Snaith.

No stranger to the realms of the ridiculous, Handsome Dick Manitoba (real name: Richard Blum) achieved a small amount of recognition in the mid-’70s with his New York-based group of bratty upstarts the Dictators, which The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll describes as “much closer to brazenly amateurish heavy metal than punk.” In 1976, Handsome Dick had a famous near-death experience at CBGB after heckling transvestite rocker Wayne/Jayne County, who retorted to Dick’s comments by planting a microphone stand into Manitoba’s skull. You’d think the man would’ve learned right then and there — being a hater doesn’t make you friends.

At the time of his email encounter with Handsome Dick, Ontario’s Manitoba was juggling writing his PhD thesis and the Up In Flames tour. “I consulted a lawyer in the UK and he was like, ‘No, this will be fine, and it’ll be fine in Canada,’” says Snaith. “Then we did a show in L.A. and I got called to the door with like, ‘Somebody’s here to see you’ or whatever, and [Handsome Dick had] hired a private investigator from the other side of the country to come to the show and serve me with a subpoena. I was like, ‘Holy shit.’ That’s when I started realising, as funny as this is, it’s serious shit.”

After consulting American lawyers about the situation, Snaith was informed that it would cost him about $500,000 U.S. to fight the lawsuit (an amount Snaith obviously couldn’t afford), and that he still stood a good chance of losing if he decided to go through with it. It became a huge source of frustration for Snaith, but his kind nature won out in the end.

“It got to the point where I was like, ‘It doesn’t matter that this case is ridiculous, it doesn’t matter that in some sense I should fight this because he’s getting away with murder.’ I just realised that if I spend all my time thinking about this and dealing with this annoying little guy, that’s just such a waste of my time, so I was like ‘Why don’t I just change my name and move on?’ Immediately upon realising that, it was kind of this release, like, ‘Yeah, it doesn’t matter buddy. Do whatever you want.’ Out of principle it would’ve been good to be able to say, ‘No, no, no, you can’t go around bullying people with lawsuits,’ but at the end of the day I don’t want to have spent all my time arguing with some guy.”

Instead Dan Snaith took some acid and went on a hike in the woods with some friends. While trekking through the woods, he stumbled across a bear. The bear told him to call himself “Caribou” and that was that.

Dan Snaith aka Caribou on the interview show

Caribou – “Melody Day” (Four Tet remix)

Caribou – “She’s the One” (Hot Chip remix)