Daft Punk, A Tribe Called Quest To Perform At Grammys
Next month's Grammy Awards may be missing a few big names, but the show has just announced an exciting new slate of performers. We already knew that Adele, Bruno Mars, Metallica, John Legend, Keith...
View ArticleDaft Punk Announce LA Pop-Up Shop With Exclusive Merch
Give or take a Starboy single, Daft Punk seems like more of a merchandising operation than a musical project at this point, and in keeping with their industrious tendencies they'll be hosting a pop-up...
View ArticleThere’s Only One Way To Find Out If The Grammys Will Suck Again This Year
Remember last year when it seemed like the Grammys might turn out OK and then they sucked as usual? They will probably suck again this year! But damn, NARAS does a good job of getting my hopes up every...
View ArticleCheck Out Scenes From Daft Punk’s LA Pop-Up
Instagram.com/utzpeter">Daft Punk's pop-up shop opens at LA's Maxfield Gallery today. In addition to merchandise and memorabilia, the shop also features an archival retrospective of the duo's old...
View ArticleGrammys 2017: Watch The Weeknd & Daft Punk Perform “I Feel It Coming”
Daft Punk just gave their first live performance since the 2014 Grammys, backing up the Weeknd on a performance of their Starboy collab "I Feel It Coming" (aka the song that's not "Starboy"). The...
View ArticleGrammys 2017: Performances From Worst To Best
Some of us dared to dream that maybe the Grammys would have a good year this year. They'd nominated a diverse and often worthy group of records, and they'd announced a strange and fascinating roster of...
View ArticleThe Weeknd –“I Feel It Coming” (Feat. Daft Punk) Video
The Weeknd is back with a new music video for Starboy's Daft Punk-assisted "I Feel It Coming." Directed by Warren Fu, the VHS-quality clip finds Abel Tesfaye hanging out in a desolate yet beautiful...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Videos Of The Week
This week, because of a music video, the President of the United States of America got all pissy with a '90s G-funk icon. Never let anyone tell you that music videos are no longer relevant. This week's...
View ArticleRap Is Having Another Pop Moment
"Rap is not pop/ If you call it that, then stop." When Q-Tip spoke those words on "Check The Rhime," the most enduring single from A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 opus The Low End Theory, he had aesthetics...
View ArticleWhen Bygone Pop Stars Attempt An Indie Reboot
When Michelle Branch announced her comeback album at the outset of this year, the name was familiar, but so was the maneuver. Branch, a 33-year-old singer-songwriter from Arizona, is best known for a...
View ArticleJohn Mayer Wants To Win You Back (Or For The First Time)
One of the first songs John Mayer shared from his new album, The Search For Everything, is called "Moving On And Getting Over." Perhaps not coincidentally, if we are to judge by Mayer's recent New York...
View ArticleThe Chainsmokers Have Pinpointed Pop’s Absolute Middle And They Refuse To Budge
Fast food, like any vice, is fine in limited quantities. Only when you pound Big Macs regularly, Morgan Spurlock-style, do you really suffer from indulging in high-fructose cheap thrills. Ditto pop...
View ArticleDaft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Appears At Cannes Without His Helmet
BREAKING: Daft Punk are not actually robots. Thomas Bangalter, one half of the legendary electronic duo, made a rare unmasked appearance with his wife, French actress Élodie Bouchez, at the opening...
View ArticleArcade Fire –“Everything Now”
This week, Arcade Fire teased the release of a new song called "Everything Now" off of a new album that's possibly called Infinite Content. At Primavera, where they're performing later this weekend,...
View ArticleArcade Fire Announce New Album Everything Now
Arcade Fire's new album is called Everything Now -- not Infinite Content, as previously speculated -- and its title track is officially out now. It's the second song on a 13-song tracklist. Everything...
View ArticleParcels –“Overnight” (Prod. & Co-Written By Daft Punk)
Time and space bend in on one another. Parcels are an Australian band based in Berlin, and now they've teamed up with a pair of robots who are from the future but who are based in Paris. Parcels, who...
View ArticleWatch French Army Marching Band Play A Daft Punk Medley For Trump & Macron
Daft Punk is France's greatest musical export (right?), and so today a French military band performed a medley of the duo's hits in honor of Bastille Day. Present at the event were French president...
View ArticleWatch Parcels Make Their TV Debut On Conan
Earlier this year, Berlin-via-Australia band Parcels released "Overnight," a song that was produced and co-written by none other than Daft Punk. Last night, they made their US television debut by...
View ArticleHear Arcade Fire’s Win Butler On Song Exploder
If you've been wondering about the making of Arcade Fire’s "Put Your Money On Me," well, you’re in luck. Frontman Win Butler was the most recent guest on the Song Exploder podcast, where he explained...
View ArticleDaft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Teases “Riga (Take 5)”
It's been five years since Daft Punk released any new material, but that doesn't mean its members have been resting on their laurels. The duo has kept busy co-producing with artists like the Weeknd and...
View ArticleThomas Bangalter –“Riga Take 5”
In May, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter contributed a new song to Gaspar Noé’s Climax soundtrack. He recently started recording some "mental techno" for the 2017 Latvian film Riga (Take 1). Earlier this...
View ArticleAnderson .Paak, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, & George Clinton –“It’s All...
Nearly every tour in the world has ground to a halt thanks to coronavirus concerns, but Trolls World Tour rolls on. I guess you really can't stop the feeling!
View ArticleDaft Punk Scoring Dario Argento’s New Movie Occhiali Neri (UPDATE: Maybe Not)
Daft Punk are scoring Dario Argento's new film Occhiali Neri. The Italian director revealed the news in an interview with Repubblica (via The Film Stage), saying that the duo reached out to him to...
View ArticleDaft Punk Announce Breakup
Daft Punk, the massively popular and influential Paris-based dance music duo, have broken up. Members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter announced their split in a new video titled...
View ArticleDaft Punk Charted Pop’s Future Then Rewrote Its Past
Daft Punk were nowhere and everywhere. Especially toward the end of their 28-year run, the Parisian dance music pioneers operated under a veil of secrecy, disappearing for long stretches between...
View ArticleDiscovery Turns 20
When Daft Punk announced their breakup earlier this week, they did it through iconography. The duo let the world know that their whole enterprise was ending by sharing a scene from their 2006 movie...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Bands We Lost In 2021
Last year a bunch of bands broke up, and then when they couldn’t launch farewell tours, postponed their goodbyes until 2021 or 2022. That’s why after 12 years I skipped making one of these videos in...
View ArticleWatch US Olympic Figure Skaters Ice Dance To Daft Punk
The Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing: One more time, people from around the world have gathered to excel at their chosen sport or, barring that, get lucky. Yesterday the festivities included a...
View ArticleDaft Punk Surprise-Release Homework 25th Anniversary Digital Deluxe & Stream...
In honor of Daft Punk’s 1997 debut album Homework turning 25, Twitch has launched a stream — starting at 2:22 PT — of the electronic pioneers’ December 17, 1997 concert at the Mayan Theater in Los...
View ArticleDaft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Announces Solo Orchestral Album Mythologies
For 28 years, the French producer Thomas Bangalter was one half of Daft Punk. Daft Punk, the team of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, started out as an underground house project, and they became hugely...
View ArticleThomas Bangalter –“L’Accouchement” (Performed By Orchestre National Bordeaux...
Last week, Thomas Bangalter — one-half of the now defunct Daft Punk — announced Mythologies, an orchestral album that was commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for a ballet that premiered...
View ArticleDaft Punk Announce Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition With Demos...
Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories turns 10 later this year, and though the French electronic duo has broken up, there will still be an anniversary edition to celebrate their final album.
View ArticleThomas Bangalter –“Le Minotaure”
This spring, Thomas Bangalter, who was one half of Daft Punk until very recently, will release the new album Mythologies. This isn’t a traditional solo album. Instead, it’s an orchestral work that...
View ArticleDaft Punk Share Studio Audio From “Fragments Of Time” Recording Session
In May, Daft Punk are releasing a 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories featuring 35 minutes worth of previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Today, they’ve shared the first of those...
View ArticleThe Number Ones: Kanye West’s “Stronger”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
View ArticleDaft Punk Share “Give Life Back To Music” Demo From Random Access Memories...
The 10th anniversary deluxe edition of Daft Punk’s hit-launching, Grammy-winning blockbuster Random Access Memories is due out in May. The duo has thus far shared outtakes from the “Fragments Of Time”...
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