News bits: Hot Hot Heat, Stacy Clark, OK Go

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Dangerbird Records continues to add muscle to its roster – today the L.A.-based label announced the signing of Canadian indie-rockers Hot Hot Heat. The quartet’s fourth album “Future Breeds” – a return to the delirious spazz-pop of early in its career – will be released this summer. Their two major-label albums for Warner Bros. in 2005 and 2007 produced several KROQ hits, including “Middle of Nowhere” and “Let Me In.” Dangerbird’s been busy, with the recent signings of Minus the Bear (“Omni” out May 4) and Codeine Velvet Club (the side project of the Fratellis’ Jon Lawler, albu due April 6).

‣ Also: Stacy Clark, the winner in the pop category at the recent Orange County Music Awards, is signing to Vanguard.

‣ See ya, EMI: OK Go announced on Tuesday the formation of Paracadute, the band’s own distribution and promotions company. The move follows the brouhaha over the band’s crazy video for “This Too Shall Pass,” which EMI prohibited from being embedded on blogs and fan sites. Frontman Damian Kulash talked about the move Wednesday on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”