"Many reviewers have already compared Hot Challenge to the Killers, citing a Brandon Flowers-esque vocal quality and heavy synths. I’m not one to disagree, but I’d like to point out a distinguishing factor on behalf of Hot Challenge: their performance is charged with a certain...gleeful kind of energy that keeps the music feeling more fun than heavy handed. The drummer of Hot Challenge performed sans shirt. The band wore matching white denim pants. The bassist wore a red neckerchief, mm-hmm, and Vegas-era-Elvis sunglasses. This kind of goofy abandon is refreshing, and it also reveals personality—something that’s maybe just as important as musicianship." --Owl Magazine review of Hot Challenge’s Great American Music Hall show on February 2, 2008

"A local fan put it best when I asked her initial thoughts of Hot Challenge’s music. “These guys make my spinner go crazy when I listen to them during a game of twister.” The music is good, potential to be solid National Touring act...They are funny and defiantly entertaining musically, a quirky bunch of guys with a very experimental yet poppy sound. The difference between a purely “local” band and a “local” band such as Hot Challenge is their songwriting ability, which comes through in every song." --Zero Magazine, February 2008

"Nearly one year ago Hot Challenge were playing shows at Brainwash, a tiny venue that doubles as a Laundromat (not to disparage Brainwash; any place where you can get your socks rocked off right into the washing machine is a winner in my book). This gives you a good idea of how far they’ve come in a short amount of time, because now they’re headlining the Great American Music Hall. How did the band, whose music walks the line between postironic, ’80s-revival synth pop and modern rock staples like Bloc Party and the Killers, accomplish this feat? By hustling its butt off, playing big-dumb-smile-inducing live shows, and making polished electrorock that’s as unpretentious as it is danceable." --SF Bay Guardian, January 30, 2008

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