Click above to see Rolling Stone’s Melissa Maerz discuss Jack Johnson’s latest collection of laid-back grooves, Sleep Through the Static, and U.K. dance-rock act Hot Chip’s new electro-fueled album Made in the Dark. Plus: Read the review of Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static here and Hot Chip’s Made in the Dark here.

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