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Lead: Playlists are still enormously important for breaking acts and for building careers – but they are increasingly a moving target that gets harder and harder to hit. As they change what they are, how they work and what...

Hot Chip seemed to have followed recent moves from American band Tanlines (who re-skinned their website to look like a Netflix site) and re-designed their website just in time for the recent UK election (on 7th May).

The UK is waking up this morning to a comprehensive victory for the Conservative party in its general election. Yesterday, though, the polls were put to canny marketing use by British band Hot Chip. 

Seven years ago, remix competitions were a new and exciting marketing opportunity, with everyone fired up on the possibilities of UGC and how it could create a different connection between artist and fan. Their growing ubiquity...

Songkick created a Detour for Hot Chip, getting fans to pledge attendance at possible gigs in three British cities/towns: Folkestone, Stoke and York.

Hot Chip started a week-long takeover of the Domino Spotify app yesterday (Tuesday) to promote their new album, In Our Heads.

Hot Chip are the latest band to livestream one of their gigs online, working with MySpace and tech firm Livestream to webcast a New York show last weekend.