This will be a rather limited preview, the best thing I can say about Hey Champ is I'd like to hear more. The band, from Chicago, has only released 4 songs so the listening was limited. Hey Champ is probably best known as opening on a nationwide tour for Lupe Fiasco, this opportunity arose when Lupe viewed a video of their song "Cold Dust Girl" on YouTube.
Hey Champ is an interesting group, they consist of 3 members and most of their songs remind me of mellow rock groups such as the Shins, which gives me little reason to think they'd be anything but out of place opening for Lupe Fiasco. However the group has also released an album under the Hey Champ DJs that remixes many songs from Yeahsayer to T Pain. With such a limited number of songs available all I can say is the band is intriguing, I will try to check them out at Lolla 09, and definitely want to check out their first full length release, hoping for a sort of MGMT feel.
Hey Champ on MySpace
Hey Champ DJs on MySpace
they have a their first single available on itunes now...definitely gives you an idea of how the upcoming album is going to sound. and fyi, i saw them in santa barbara with lupe, and the crowd was all about it after they got over the initial shock that lupe's new artists weren't a hiphop band
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