Interview With Hot Hot Heat And More!

With Hot Hot Heat set to release "Happiness Ltd." today we figured it would be a great time to post this email interview we did with Dustin and Paul. The guys definitely seem exited to be done with the album. We're excited. for next weeks Endfest and their performance! Gander On for the interview as well as parts four and five of the making of "Happiness Ltd" and make sure to hit your local record stores today for a copy, It's Hot!>

Where did the name of the new album come from?
It came from the first lyric of the first song.

How do you think your music has evolved from Make Up The Breakdown to Elevators to now with Happiness Ltd?
If Make up the Breakdown was a one celled organism, this is album is a fully formed Homohablis.

What is the process you go through when making an album. Do you write a lot of the music and then go in and write to it? Or write the music first? Is it a combination of the two?
We spent a lot of time writing on the road. Songs usually start with one person bringing in an idea, a skeleton of a song, and then we all flesh it out.

You’ve put out some behind the scenes videos on your youtube channel. What’s it like to look back and see the process you went through making the album?
We shouldn't have been drinking so much. It seems as though there is a beer can in every other shot.

What can people expect at a Hot Hot Heat live show?
It's like being struck by lightning, repeatedly. Now ride the lightning!

You’ve said several times that you don’t like playing clubs but rather playing to a larger audience. Why do you think this is?
That's cause Steve was misquoted, what he actually said was that we prefer to play arenas.

What have been some of your favorite venues to play and what have been some of your favorite venues to see other bands play?

Santa Barbara Bowl, Red Rocks, London Astoria, Logan's, Whiskey, Viper Room
Steve did a remix of the Killers “Read My Mind” earlier this year. Are there any other remixes out there we should be looking for or any others in the works?
The Let Me In remixes are quite good.

What are some of your guilty pleasure songs you listen to?
Dripping With Hate - Hatewolf