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Full Name:Hot Hot Heat
Date of Birth: 1999
Place of Birth: Victoria, British Columbia, Ca

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  • FREEwilliamsburg - Found Nov. 14, 2009
    Whenever I drop a mention of these Real Estate-gone-Hot Hot Heat sexing it with Adam Green tunes (yeah,...
  • Punknews.org - Found Nov. 13, 2009
    Vancouver, BC's Hot Hot Heat have posted two new songs for download.
  • No Rock And Roll Fun - Found Nov. 11, 2009
    And the sample sizes continue: Hot Hot Heat are serving up two tracks from their new album, Future Breeds. They've not done a record since 2007,
  • Spin.com - Found Nov. 11, 2009
    Hot Hot Heat Steve Bays of Vancouver indie-dance act Hot Hot Heat is sorry and wants to make it up to you.
  • ChartAttack.com - Found Nov. 11, 2009
    Hot Hot Heat have finally finished recording Future Breeds , the follow-up to 2007's Happiness Ltd. and have made two new tracks from the album
  • Spin Magazine Online: Music for Life - Found Nov. 12, 2009
    [YouTube ] DOWNLOAD: Two New HOT HOT HEAT Songs Canadian band offer "Future Breeds" and "JFK's LSD." [ SPIN ] LISTEN: FIERY FURNACES...
  • Spin Magazine Online: Music for Life - Found Nov. 11, 2009
    [SPIN ]   MP3s & VIDEOS: DOWNLOAD: Two New HOT HOT HEAT Songs Canadian band offer "Future Breeds" and "JFK's LSD." [ Hot Hot Heat ] WATCH...
  • ChartAttack.com - Found Sep. 15, 2009
    Make Up The Breakdown Sub Pop/Warner Kate Guay (CHARTattack) 0 comments 0 0 Hot Hot Heat is a band that won?t be able to avoid the all-too-easy
  • Barrie Examiner - Found Nov. 20, 2009
    Hot Hot Heat Future Breeds/JFK's LSD It seems the Vancouver dance-punks added a few new moves for their forthcoming Future Breeds album.
  • Spin.com - Found Nov. 19, 2009
    Remember Me Contest and Promotions Wows His town Chicago The R&B crooner provided a master class in showmanship and bringing the hot hot heat.
 

Hot Hot Heat Biography

Hot Hot Heat
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Hot Hot Heat
Origin Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Genres Indie rock
Dance-punk
New Wave1
Post-punk revival
Years active 1999–present
Labels Sire, Warner Bros.
Website HotHotHeat.com
Members
Steve Bays
Paul Hawley
Parker Bossley
Luke Paquin
Former members
Dustin Hawthorne
Matthew Marnik
Jimmy Sweet
Dante DeCaro

Hot Hot Heat is an indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The band currently is composed of Steve Bays (vocals and keyboards), Paul Hawley (drums), Parker Bossley (bass) and Luke Paquin (guitar).

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Biography

Hawthorne and Bays had been in many different bands together since 1995 and met Hawley in 1998. In 1999, Hawley bought a Juno 6 keyboard and asked Bays to try playing it, as no one else knew how. Hawley took over the drums from Bays and Hawthorne played bass. Matthew Marnik, who was a friend of the band, sang vocals. The band's original sound can be considered synthpunk.

The band soon changed direction to a more melodic, pop-influenced style, losing Marnik and adding guitarist Dante DeCaro. Strongly influenced by the New Wave sound of 1980s bands XTC, The Clash, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the new lineup, with Steve on vocals, quickly released a series of 7" singles and toured extensively in Canada and the American Pacific Northwest, joining up with similarly-styled indie rock bands such as Les Savy Fav, The French Kicks, Radio 4, Ima Robot, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and opening for established Canadian rockers Sloan on a national tour.

The band's touring exposure attracted the interest of Seattle record label Sub Pop, who signed Hot Hot Heat in 2001, leading to the early 2002 release of EP Knock Knock Knock, produced in part by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Although Hot Hot Heat got its start as a hardcore band, by the time it made contact with Sub Pop, its sound had mutated into what would soon be known as dance-punk. The band stood at the forefront of a movement that would explode on the indie rock scene within another year.2 That release was followed up quickly by the band's first full-length release, Make Up the Breakdown, produced by Nirvana and Soundgarden producer Jack Endino.

That album quickly found critical acclaim, and its singles "Bandages" and "Talk to Me, Dance With Me" received regular airplay on MTV and radio, including influential Los Angeles, California station KROQ, on whose charts both reached No. 1.

However, their track "Bandages" was removed from radio in the UK, from the playlist at BBC Radio 1, in the light of the war in the Middle East. This was thought to have hindered its position at #25 in the UK charts. The track had been on the B list on the station, guaranteeing 15 plays a week and a potential audience of millions. It was removed because of a "prevalence of the word 'bandages' in the song", a spokesperson said.3

In 2003 the band re-released the 2001 album of tracks recorded prior to their Sub Pop recordings, Scenes One Through Thirteen, on the OHEV Records label. Reflecting the band's transition period between their original sound and the present, and thus very much unlike what fans had heard on Knock Knock Knock and Make Up the Breakdown.

In 2004 Make Up the Breakdown won "Favourite Album" at the Canadian Independent Music Awards by popular vote. Guitarist Dante DeCaro announced his departure from the band in October 2004, but stayed to complete their next album, and in 2005 joined Montreal band Wolf Parade. That album Elevator, the band's major label debut, was released commercially by Warner Bros. in April 2005. Dante handed guitar duties over to replacement Luke Paquin when the band started their 2005 tour.

In 2005, the band opened for Weezer and Foo Fighters on the "Foozer Tour".

Hot Hot Heat played an opening set for American synth rock group The Killers at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 17, 2007. However, The Killers were forced to pull out after three songs because lead singer Brandon Flowers was suffering from bronchitis.

The follow up to Elevator, Happiness Ltd., was released on September 11, 2007. In late March 2007, the band posted the song "Give Up?" on their MySpace page as a sample of the album, and it was released on iTunes as a single on May 15. A second single entitled "Let Me In" was released on July 16.

Hot Hot Heat toured in 2007 with Snow Patrol as their opening act on the U.S. leg of their summer tour. Their headlining tour of Germany, Canada and U.S. started September 3, 2007.

"Let Me In" debuted on KROQ at number 8. On August 8, 2007, the music video for "Let Me In" premiered on Myspace Music. Also, on September 6, 2007, Hot Hot Heat posted their new album on their MySpace.

Hot Hot Heat is currently working on their latest studio album with producer/musician Ryan Dahle from Limblifter/Age of Electric which is expected to be finished in November 2008 with Parker Bossley from Fake Shark - Real Zombie! on bass. They are currently on tour opening for Bloc Party, and plan on releasing a new album in late 2009.

Discography

Albums

456

EPs

  • Hot Hot Heat (1999), four song 7"
  • Hot Hot Heat (2001), three song 7"
  • Knock Knock Knock (2002)

Singles

Year Title Peak Chart Positions Album
US Mod7 US Pop7 UK
56
2003 "Bandages" 19 — 25 Make Up the Breakdown
"No, Not Now" — — 38
"Talk to Me, Dance with Me" 33 — 78
2005 "Island of the Honest Man" — — — Elevator
"Goodnight Goodnight" 27 73 36
"Middle of Nowhere" 23 — 47
"Christmas Day in the Sun" — — — Non-album single
2007 "Give Up?" — — — Happiness Ltd.
"Let Me In" — — 138
"Harmonicas & Tambourines" — — —

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