Rollingstone.com has a short article about the upcoming Hot Hot Heat album, hopefully coming out around Thanksgiving. Make Up the Breakdown is a great album, one of my favorites from last year. They seem, at first glance, like they could just be another group leeching off bands of the past (I'm looking right at you, Strokes), but I think they have a great, original sound: careening, post-punk, surprising, hip-shaking, all with a splash of organ. Good times, good times.

Hot Hot Heat is also featured on a compilation of live tracks from CBC Radio 3 along with the New Pornographers and some bands that I don't know the first thing about (probably crazy Canadians, I'm sure).