The Hot IQs Throw a Christmas Party!

It's so special to have a nice Jewish boy like Eli Mishkin throw the best durned Christmas party in town. The Hot IQs were celebrating the release of their "Houndstooth" video and seven-inch single on Dec. 19, and threw a hellacious party at the Bluebird Theater, complete with dancing elves doing a choreograph thingie they called Team Firefox. The lighting was too dark to catch the amazing Elaine Acosta on drums, but below is the video for "Firecracker," and I also took some quick Flips of "Retromuff," "Duck and Cover," and a song I didn't know with a chorus of "Wait for Me." I didn't get a video, but the last encore was a wonderful cover of The Magnetic Fields' song, "I Think I Need a New Heart." Eli also did a hilarious holiday Q&A for the Denver Post.

One of the openers was an absolutely maniacal hip-hop-primitivo-techno-disco duo that called themselves the Chaingang of 1974. Here's a drum excerpt of their performance.

Merry Christmas and belated Happy Chanukkah!