Article: HOT HOT HEAT MIXES FIRE WITH INEXPERIENCE

Forgive Hot Hot Heat frontman Steve Bays if he seems to be an odd combination of sassy sex god and anxious novice: His band has gone from well-kept Canadian secret to international buzz band in about six months. In tight jeans and an artfully tousled hairdo, with his right hand on a wheezing keyboard and a microphone in his left, Bays careened through the opening tune "Talk to Me, Dance With Me" - a glammed-up funk-punk gem - in a sour, strangulated tenor. Afterward, he stood at the front of the stage, looking shell shocked, and asked the audience members to tell him what they thought of the song. He wasn't kidding.

Hot Hot Heat bristles with energy mined from the punk scene, '80s New Wave, ...

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