Hot Singles

Very happy new year!! Ring it in with a return from your fave music dipshits, summing up a strange, disjointed but ultimately still really fun year of listening to cool tunes. We know we've been away for a while, but no amount of horrendous personal circumstances could keep us away from a mic forever. Love to all our listeners, especially to those who have supported and championed Hot Singles in o...

Hot Singles is BACK, and in this wonderful episode we have BOO'S LITERAL DAD. <3 We talk about Canadian pop icon Corey Heart's Boy In The Box , Muse's bridge period brainfart Absolution and Jean Dawson's CHAOS NOW* . Sydney… the ocean gateway to scenic Cape Breton Island! You can find Alexis on twitter @regresssion . You can find Boo on twitter @boocanan , and find her visual art @designbyboo a...

We made it folks, Boo and Alexis are here to guide you through another magical year of Singos. We talk about all the stuff we got excited about and the drift off into some genial chatter about AI, yaoi and the interim head coach of the Oakland Raiders. Remember that if you wanna chat about the show or hit us up, we have a spot alongside the other Export Audio podcasts in the Abnormal Mapping disco...

Another bumper episode to bring us into the holiday season, as we're joined again by Jacqueline Codiga, aka DJ Horse Jeans, of music writing, promoting and podcasting fame. We've got two returning faces in Keith Rankin, who's solo project Giant Claw we've covered, on production duty for death's dynamic shoud's Faith in Persona, and our eternal object of fascination Daniel Lopatin, who we're talkin...

This one's a heater with a runtime to match - we're joined by Marcy to talk about dance music past, present and (spectral) future in Skrillex's Quest for Fire , Evian Christ's Revanchist and Burial's self-titled debut. Come for the wubs, stay for the rave euphoria. You can find Marcy on twitter @Marcy_Anime . For connoisseurs of anime women. You can find Alexis on twitter @regresssion . You can fi...

If you like to laugh this is the episode for you - we're joined by Ruairi (ODAE) and Maxie (secat), long time producer buddies of Alexis and power couple behind a wonderful new split album Laugh Jokes , which we talk about in this episode alongside Koreless' Agor and Arthur Russell's World of Echo . You can purchase secat and ODAE's Laugh Jokes at https://secat.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-jokes and w...

Hot Singles is back from the summer break with two albums that will make you cooler just for knowing about them, Jam City's Classical Curves and John Glacier's SHILOH: Lost For Words. Next episode's picks TBA but we'll be joined by friend of the pod Hannah Yoleau. You can find Alexis on twitter @regresssion . You can find Boo on twitter @boocanan , and find her visual art @designbyboo and her musi...

This dude made some music. We talk about as much of it as we possibly can. God damn. Heads up that the last few sections deal with his illness and recent passing. If you want to follow the playlist, you can listen to it at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RfhF9fsIgyveGlyjyLZ3U Ryuichi's own playlist for his funeral can be found at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31OIme0YdF4ORWvEdTyE6V   Next e...

This episode we welcome friend of the show Mark to talk about three albums all guaranteed to satisfy you whatever your occult affiliations. We're talking about Lauren Bousfield's Palimpsest , Chelsea Wolfe's Hiss Spun and Joanna Newsom's Divers . Next episode we'll be looking back on the immense, storied career of Ryuichi Sakamoto. You can find Alexis on twitter @regresssion , and everything else...

We only scuffed this one just a little lmao so you get Banjo and Kazooie music as a little treat. Here's a new Hot Singles all about a pantheon hip-hop record, a beautiful pop curio and one of the best fucking RnB records ever: Run-D.M.C's Raising Hell, Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 and Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope. All that featuring friend of the show Jakey jammkamm! Next episode we...

sorry i forgot to put this on the main feed and then left town i'll remember next time i swear We promised we'd do it and finally: we figure out who that hat guy is. This is a tour of the very best and most interesting bits of the career of Pharrell Williams, from a 90s RnB producer to pop star to cultural landmark all of his own. You can find the playlist we're running through at https://open.spo...

The hottest of singles are back, talking about two slices of early 00s UK pop that you HAVE to fucking hear. It's The Streets' Original Pirate Material and Frou Frou's Details . Music, man. we swear, we swear next time we get to pharrell. prommy. You can find Alexis on twitter @regresssion , and everything else they're up to at regresssion.carrd.co You can find Boo on twitter @boocanan , and find...

Hello dear listeners, and welcome to the year of our Lord, 2023. Hot Singles is here with a summary of the year that's just been, with Boo and Alexis talking about their favourite artists and albums, and favourite picks that we brought to the podcast. Bonus chat about movies, the only good K-pop group, and comedy organ noises. Catch you very soon with new episodes! You can find Alexis on twitter @...

We've got the best vibes this side of Andromeda, as Boo and Alexis are joined by the wonderful Patrick Totally to talk about three records that will make you feel smoother and silkier than a polished smooth and silky thing. The vibes are good. Also like they made us feel stuff but that's like whatever. Highlights include: Alexis dying, Boo already being dead but dying again, Ricky being sad and co...

It's time for a bumper episode. Lily from the Indieheads crew joins Boo and Alexis to pick through 3 hours of chat about some of the coolest, most cutting-edge and innovative bits of electronic music, and also Bon Iver. We're covering Tim Hecker's Love Streams , Bon Iver's i,i and Kali Malone's Living Torch . #kalihive Next episode, Boo and Alexis will be joined by the one and only Patrick Totally...

Time for a heater - Boocanan is joined by two dear friends of the pod, Hannah and Mark, to talk about Flying Lotus' You're Dead! , Lupe Fiasco's Tetsuo & Youth and Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns . Expect the highest and most delicious forms of ridiculous ambitious self-indulgent big brain concept album bullshit, and also some investment advice. Boo and Alexis will be joined by friend of the pod...

With thanks for your patience, we have a quick special to drop before we return to regularly scheduled programming: Marcy came to the UK for 2 weeks and we went to see a whole bunch of music. So we talked about the gigs and club night we went to, talked about scenes and cities that support them and finally did some #content of a deeply British and dubiously listenable quality. Enjoy! PS: the mix w...

This is a behemoth of an episode and it's about a bunch of real good and real interesting records for your listening pleasure. Special guest Jacqueline Codiga (aka Jackie, aka DJ Horse Jeans), of the Indieheads pod crew and many writing outlets, joins us to talk about HTRK's Psychic 9-5 Club , Hood's Cold House and an all-time album for all three of us, Yves Tumor's Safe in the Hands of Love . Yes...

Here are some god damn rap records. They're real good. Let's talk about them. Heads up for chat about personal and intergenerational trauma as well as sexual violence throughout. Next episode, Boo and Alexis will be joined by Jacqueline Cordiga, aka DJ Horse Jeans , of many publications and the Indie Heads podcast, to talk about Hood's Cold House, HTRK's Psychic 9-5 Club and Yves Tumor's Safe in t...

We've got just one album on the bill this week, but it's a biggie and very fun one to talk about at that. Autumn and Alexis are joined by Mark to talk through the 1999 project from the Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs . Next week, Boo is back and we've all brought rap records, and it's gonna be a fun one. We'll be talking about Earl Sweatshirt's SICK! , RX Papi's Foreign Exchange and, yes, Kendrick...

//cws for discussion of rape allegation, 11:30-13:20; for sexual abuse and related injuries, 39:00-58:00. Kristin Hayter released a short statement alongside an extensive account of the abuse which can be found here - same thorough content warnings apply https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RashVW63u0JVl2WhjeUTo3nrnPgh4_sQpKF2j-6_iy0/   It's a big boy episode this time on Hot Singles as we work thr...

Alexis and Autumn are joined this time by the ever wonderful Hannah Yoleau to figure out what the hell emo is, through Rites of Spring's Rites of Spring (1985), American Football's American Football (1999) and The Wonder Years' Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing (2011). There will be feelings, guitars, mid-size American cities, cringe lyrics and a fun casual murder! It's a good time....

Playoff basketball is here, it rules, and the soul of the game touched our hearts so profoundly we just had to talk about it. Celtics-Nets, Heat-Hawks, Warriors-Nuggets, 76ers-Raptors, Grizzlies-Timberwolves, and some quick hitters. Believe in Tyrese, we do.

The singles are nice and toasty, as Boo and Alexis talk about EDM gateway drug Flume's mixtape Hi This Is Flume and J-pop icon Hikaru Utada's amazing new album BADモード. Expect recriminations about SOPHIE, Evangelion and Kingdom Hearts you could not have picked a set of topics to get us more on our bullshit if you tried. Next time, Alexis and Autumn are joined by the ever wonderful guest Hannah Y...

Hey friends, Autumn and Alexis (that's regs' new name woo) are back after a brief time away with a check in and catch up, that covers a bunch of topics, including: Why we needed a quick break How music is fitting in our lives right now Anime girls who do Marxism The UN and global geopolitics Wholesome cooking youtubers An abundance of vagina bones A whole catchup on the NBA Cody Bellinger 2021 MLB...