Seriously, Seattle. When did you get so proactive? On one hand, congratulations for being smart enough to get tickets to a great show well in advance. On the other, what happened to saving room for the spontaneous?

Anyway, you’ll have to beg, borrow, or steal your way into Hot Chip tonight if you didn’t cozy up to Ticketmaster last month. Made In the Dark has everything you could possibly want from and indie-rock dance album. There are floor-ready beats, mopey love ballads, and — my favorite! — Flight of the Conchordsesque narratives about fighting. Even after I got over my obsession with the album that started while walking around in the rain in a once familiar city, trying to catch the subway in an underground shopping mall, and dodging kids milling about in museums, I still couldn’t stop listening to “Wrestlers”. It is funny and sad and it has unbearably catchy rhythm in between. I’ve only seen Hot Chip in a festival setting. There, they blew the roof off the tent. Tonight, I predict that the Showbox’s floating floor will get a workout. with Free Blood. (”at the market”)[showbox]