Hot Chip have established themselves as much for their quirky music videos as their catchy dance pop, so it comes as no surprise that their hilarious vid for One Night Stand’s “I Feel Better” is another must-see entry in their videography. The clip finds the nerdy Hot Chip recast as a boy band and muses whether the Brits’ music would be more popular sales-wise if the members were all male models. Before trotting down the boring path of cultural commentary, however, a glowing bald figure similar to Steve Coogan in Hamlet 2 emerges from the back of the theater to horrify the screaming teenage girl fans.

From there, the video descends into lunacy: The bald man destroys the four-man boy band by shooting lightning bolts out of his mouth, only they are resurrected as a quintet. Then, a floating head pops in and shoots laser beams from his eyes and mows down the actual Hot Chip, who cameo in the video. The clip comes straight from the warped mind of director and British comic Peter Serafinowicz, who Americans might recognize as the yuppie flatmate-turned-zombie in Shaun of the Dead and who will voice the role of Paul McCartney in Robert Zemeckis’ Yellow Submarine remake.

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Black Eyed Peas reveal the second North American leg of their The E.N.D. jaunt, Hot Chip add some April dates to their One Life Stand tour and Melvins plan to hit the road this June in support of their upcoming album, The Bride Screamed Murder. Full details for all three treks, below.

Black Eyed Peas
July 27, 28 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
July 31 – Montreal, QB @ Bell Centre
Aug. 1 – Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place
Aug. 3 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
Aug. 4 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
Aug. 6 – Hartford, CT @ XL Center
Aug. 7 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall
Aug. 10 – Baltimore, MD @ 1st Mariner Arena
Aug. 11 – Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
Aug. 13 – Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena
Aug. 14 – St. Louis @ Scottrade Center
Aug. 18 – Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
Aug. 20 – Saskatoon, SK @ Credit Union Centre
Aug. 22 – Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome
Aug. 23 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place

Hot Chip
Apr. 16 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Apr. 19 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
Apr. 20 – Toronto, ON @ Koolhaus
Apr. 22, 23 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
Apr. 24 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Apr. 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

Melvins
June 1 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
June 2 – Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
June 3 – Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
June 5 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
June 7 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
June 8 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
June 9 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
June 10 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree
June 12 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
June 14 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
June 16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
June 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
June 18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
June 19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
June 20, 21 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
June 23 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
June 24 – Detroit, MI @ Small’s
June 25 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door
June 26 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
June 27 – Des Moines, IA @ House of Bricks
June 29 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
July 2, 3 – Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival
July 5 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
July 6 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at The Market
July 7 – Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s
July 9 – San Jose, CA @ Blank Club

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Kevin O’Donnell breaks down the latest disc from British electro-pop gurus Hot Chip in this week’s New Music Report. Since 2000, the group has delivered four albums packed with danceable tracks with brains and a heart. One Life Stand boasts 10 songs that thump with house beats and feature intricate melodies performed with the precision of a classical orchestra. “Take It In” starts with ominous synths and gloomy basslines before gliding into a pretty, angelic chorus where Alexis Taylor sings about how his heart can fly like a dove. “Thieves in the Night” pairs a strutting beat and Flock of Seagulls-style synths with a dark narrative that sounds like a modern take on a Brothers Grimm tale.

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The mysterious Sade returns after a 10-year hiatus with Soldier of Love, Sade Adu and her band’s first album since 2000’s Lovers Rock and only their second album in 18 years. Despite the lengthy break, Sade pick up where they left off on their latest album, delivering another set of sultry and beautiful R&B songs. On the amazing title track, “Sade’s voice, as slinky and smoky as ever, has that instantly recognizable ache,” Rob Sheffield writes in his three-and-a-half star review. “Beloved by all, yet known to nobody, Sade just lets her mystique grow. Now that’s a smooth operator.”

British electro-pop band Hot Chip release their fourth album One Life Stand this week. As we’ve come to expect, the band delivers another pack of infectious synthed-out melodies counterweighted by the clever lyricism of frontman Alexis Taylor. “They’re old-school suckers for love, and they always give their heart-hopeful anthems just the right undercurrent of ache,” Jon Dolan writes in his three-and-a-half star review of One Life Stand.

Sticking with synths, Breaking band Yeasayer’s second album Odd Blood earned a four-star rating from Rolling Stone, with Will Hermes saying of the Brooklyn band’s second disc, “On their follow-up, they dive deeper into electronics and big Eighties beats (literally: They hired Peter Gabriel’s old drummer). The result is simultaneously stranger and poppier, more celebratory and more serious.”

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