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Kip is the main contributor and editor of hip2besquare.net. He also contributes to the Boston food blog, www.thefreshdish.com.

Heck yeah, New Mark Kozelek in May

Mark’s new album, Among the Leaves, is out this May. Below is a great video of Mark at the Shivering Songs Festival up in New Brunswick this past winter. The second song is “Sunshine of Chicago”, which is the second track off the new album (first song is “Heron Blue”). Per standard Kozelek, it’s memorizing.

MARK KOZELEK – Live at the Shivering Songs Festival from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

Head over to Bradley’s Almanac to catch up on more Kozelek love and also enter to win a 4 song EP I’ll Be There. On the album is a cover of “Natural Light” by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, an alternate version of “Third and Seneca”, cover of Stereolab’s “Tomorrow is Already There” and the title track cover of Jackson 5′s classic hit, “I’ll Be There”.

Download “Sunshine In Chicago” (via Stereogum)

Hot Chip at House of Blues in July – tickets on sale tomorrow!

In case you didn’t know, I like Hot Chip. I find their live show to be one of the best performed live acts on the music circuit today. Per standard for a music act, they are following up their upcoming album release (In Our Heads) with a tour and they will be hitting the Boston area on 7/17. That’s a Tuesday night folks. A tad better day then their last two outings here, which both landed on a dreary Monday night. Tough for us “working for a living” folk.

Check out full tour dates

Tickets for the Boston show go on sale 3/20 – tomorrow! Purchase tickets here.

Check out the video for “Flutes”, their single off the new album (for those easily dizzied, you may just want to stream while you work on something else)