Posts Tagged ‘Daft Punk’
WATCH: The Stepkids Jazzy Cover of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”
To follow their re-working of Justin Timberlake's "Suit and Tie" from last week, The Stepkids released yet another lounge-ready jazz cover of a current chartbuster, this time taking on Daft Punk's (w/ Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams) monster single "Get Lucky". Check out the clip below and if still haven't... more
STREAM: Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” Right Now
It appears that either Random Access Memories leaked this morning and/or the record label made the snap executive decision to release a free stream on iTunes a week before the album's release date. Whether this was a purposeful leak or not, it comes as a surprise that the album has... more
WATCH: Daft Punk Unveils ‘Random Access Memories’ Vinyl Packaging Porn
The robots in Daft Punk continue on with their super-human marketing campaign with the release of their new commercial showing the unveiling of the Random Access Memories vinyl, something I've already got on pre-order. The album drops next Tuesday, May 21st. Update: the album leaked today and it's... more
WATCH: DJ Falcon on how NASA helped Daft Punk
Daft Punk's countdown to their fourth, Random Access Memories is at ten days now (with buzz at record levels) and today, the Creators Project continued the push with the latest episode in their awesome series. This one features DJ Falcon who appears on the album's final track, "Contact." ... more
WATCH: Chilly Gonzales play segments from new Daft Punk record
Today, Daft Punk released the next episode in their PR-blitz for the release of their fourth album, Random Access Memories. The latest is with pianist Chilly Gonzales, who rarely shares his time, but was more than welcoming to the robots even comparing them to great film directors -- knowing... more
WATCH: Panda Bear talks about Daft Punk collaboration
You've hereby been warned that anytime this year we see the words "Panda Bear" and "Daft Punk" in the same sentence, it's probably going to be something I hop on the site to write about. Perhaps my favorite artists to emerge from my "post-jam" phase of musical discovery has... more
WATCH: Pharrell Performs “Get Lucky” Live for the First, Second and Third Time
Apparently Pharrell is as hopelessly addicted to this song as we are. Needless to say, Pharrell was pumped to perform the new Daft Punk track, "Get Lucky," live for the first time at a HTC One launch party in Brooklyn on Friday night. Pumped enough to repeat the song three... more
LISTEN: Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (Radio Edit)
Last weekend a handful of poorly edited clips and remixes made the rounds of Daft Punk's new song "Get Lucky" and this morning Rolling Stone re-posted (page has since been removed) excerpts of the recent interview with the French-duo and included what they thought was the real, un-altered studio version.... more
WATCH: Daft Punk’s New Saturday Night Live Ad Featuring Pharrell
Tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live featured the same Daft Punk ad that caused a considerable stir at Coachella on Friday. While the duo's live resurfacing continues to be entirely shrouded in rumors and speculation, Daft Punk has managed to engender an almost unprecedented level of buzz and intrigue leading... more
WATCH: Daft Punk steal the show at Coachella without performing
Leave it to Daft Punk to steal day one headlines at Coachella without setting foot on stage. On Friday, festival-goers watching the big screens saw the duo premiere a two-minute trailer of themselves (in new sequined suits and their iconic helmets) performing "Get Lucky" off the new Random Access... more
Daft Punk will Launch New Album in Wee Waa
The most anticipated album of the year is coming to Wee Waa! Daft Punk's highly anticipated album Random Access Memories will have it's own 'Global Album Launch Party' on May 17th in the small, rural town of Wee Waa, Australia. Plans for the event are still being kept... more
COVER ME: Watch DJ noDJ’s Instrumental Daft Punk Set
Since we're still in the dark as to when and where the Daft Punk takeover will take place, here's a nice consolation prize from the depths of YouTube. The band putting the sans-computer funk spin on a handful of Daft Punk's greatest hits is DJ noDJ ("a thousand-piece electronic dance... more
Watch Interview with Daft Punk Collaborator Giorgio Moroder, Hear Clip from Random Access Memories
Electronic innovator Giorgio Moroder worked on the forthcoming Daft Punk album Random Access Memories and today, The Creators Project (a partnership between Intel and VICE) released Episode 1 of a new short-form documentary series. From first glance, it appears that this collection will feature interviews with collaborators on the new... more
Daft Punk’s New LP ‘Random Access Memories’ arrives on 5/21
The big announcement arrived today at an expectedly unexpected time - midday on a Saturday: Daft Punk's new album lands on Earth May 21st. Buckle up. The pre-order run has already begun on iTunes for what has to be one of the most highly anticipated records to arrive in the... more
Social Buzz at SXSW Today: Twitterati Jokes, Rants and Speculates About Daft Punk Rumors
Photo via @galvanix Instagram The Daft Punk rumor mill (of a much/pure-speculated appearance on Austin's Capitol steps tonight) has gone beyond fever pitch this week and at this point it still likes it is only going to remain just that: buzz and rumors. At the very least, we can rejoice in... more
Daft Punk SXSW 2013 Rumor Mill Buzzing Away
We'll-Believe-It-When-We-See-It The Daft Punk rumor mill is an active hotbed of activity whenever any glimmer of hope is provided that the duo may re-appear from relative obscurity. As it's been proven over the last half-decade since the French powerhouse went into hibernation, the Internet loves going batshit over these sorts of... more
Daft Punk updates website with teaser image
Last month it was reported that Daft Punk would soon be changing record companies and hooking up with Columbia to release their highly anticipated fourth album in May (their first in eight years.) Now, just a few hours ago the band has confirmed those plans by updating both daftpunk.com... more
THIRTEEN FOR ’13: New Albums To Look Forward To
Here's a list of 13 albums we're looking forward to which have an expected release date sometime in the next eleven months (or so we hope). The list ranges from Jim James' first solo effort to Phish's twelfth, to the much-rumored but nothing-officially-announced-next albums from Tool and Daft Punk!... more
Daft Punk Signs to Columbia, New Album Coming Soon
Huge news dropped last night for fans of the ever elusive duo Daft Punk; it turns out the band has just signed with Columbia Records and numerous sources are reporting that their next album could be due out as early as this spring. Suddenly all of those notions of... more
Evidence of Daft Punk, Phoenix & Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Coachella 2013
On top of the recent news that The Rolling Stones would likely be appearing, it now looks like you can add Daft Punk, Phoenix and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (along with Sigur Ros and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) to the list of bigger artists listed as 'probable' (to use... more
BONNAROO 2013: Lineup Speculation and Educated Guesses
UPDATE: the official lineup has been announced! Earlier today, the 12th Annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival announced that ticket pre-sales will begin on Monday, November 26th (known to some as Cyber Monday). Fans can check out the promo video for the pre-sale way down at the bottom. While I'm just... more
Spring Awakening Festival: Skrillex, Afrojack, Moby (DJ set) & more…
Well, we don't see any mentions of Daft Punk on this here press release we just received about the Spring Awakening Festival, Chicago's first all-untz affair set for the field outside of Soldier Field on June 16th and 17th, but the rumor we had up about Skrillex, Laidback Luke and... more
RUMOR: Spring Awakening Festival – Skrillex, Daft Punk & more @ Soldier Field in June?
UPDATE: The lineup has been officially announced. Go here for more info! Earlier today I happened upon a half finished web page for something called Spring Awakening Music Festival. This supposed festival is slated to hit Soldier Field June 16th and 17th in Chicago. The half finished web page wasn’t... more
PHISH FRIDAY: 10 Video Highlights from NYE 2012 Run
Everyone's had a full week to digest the Phish New Year's Eve run, arguably a "standard" Phish affair with no major surprises but an undeniably fun four-nights in NYC for a ton of lucky music fans. That's a great way to kick off a new year no matter what,... more
Bonnaroo 2011: Lineup, Clues, Rumors, Speculation, Wishes, Etc…
2/15/11 update: The Official Bonnaroo 2011 Lineup has been announced. Summer Festival wanderlust is in full force this week as Wakarusa, Mountain Jam and an expected Jazz Fest lineup are released this week... The powers-that-be just kicked the Bonnaspeculation season into overdrive by offering up their first in a series of... more
Bonnaroo 2011: Too Many Good Headliners? We likey.
I've been thinking more and more that I may find my way back to Bonnaroo some time in the near future, perhaps as early as next year depending on what type of lineup we could see announced in the coming months. The rumors will start flying pretty soon, and... more
Heady Links: Phish, Mike Gordon, Daft Punk, M.I.A., Panda Bear and more…
There's been a ton of other music news this week besides all of those awesome updates from Phish yesterday, so I figured I'd round up a bit of it in one post here to get you some stuff to catch up on. First and foremost, make sure you do check out... more
Monolith 2008 | Festival Preview
Though my end of summer extravaganza started last week, I must digress that I haven't really gone anywhere yet. There have been a a number of shows here in Chicago and there will be more on that later. This weekend is when things really get started when I travel to... more
Tomorrow: Stay Smooth X @ Columbia Yacht Club | Preview, Interview
It's finally here! Stay Smooth X is finally here! The smooth music themed party is taking place on Saturday at Chicago's Columbia Yacht Club on a boat! Inspired by the now infamous Yacht Rock web-based TV show, Stay Smooth is a party celebrating all that is smooth in music. You... more
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad: Touring in the Current Economy
With the the stock indexes in the first bear market in almost six years and gas prices that have hit lifetime highs, we are all feeling the proverbial tightening of the belt. Obviously I am not a columnist for the Wall Street Journal but I try and keep close tabs... more
The Union Forever | JumboTron
The concept of the super television screen is hardly unfamiliar to anyone. Better known to the populous as a JumboTron, the screen that changed the way we look at live events can be seen everywhere from Times Square to Tokyo. While the word JumboTron is technically a brand name developed... more
