News of the Oasis reunion has sent shockwaves throughout the music world, especially since Noel Gallagher has spent the past 15 years swearing such a thing would never happen. But should anyone really be all that surprised? Liam and Noel Gallagher may not like each other very much, but they …
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Daft Punk will not be playing at your house, and they most certainly will not be reuniting next summer for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “This is a rumor and not true,” a rep for the robots tells Rolling Stone. The twosome …
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Pharrell Williams reacts to hearing a completed “Get Lucky” for the first time in the 10th anniversary Random Access Memories video documenting Daft Punk’s classic 2013 LP. “When monumental things happen, sometimes it’s lost on you, because I’m just so in it and being so present in the moment, and …
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Daft Punk will continue their 10th anniversary celebration of Random Access Memories this November with a “drumless edition” of their Grammy-winning 2013 album. Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition), due out November 17, features all 13 songs from the original LP, but as the title suggests, the drums and percussion have …
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Ever see a pregnant robot? The video for “Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo) shows mankind’s Darwinian evolution from an amoeba to a primate to a man to a robot to an enceinte automaton (that looks a lot like a female version of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s stage costumes). The …
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Daft Punk have offered the first taste of the 35 minutes of unreleased music on their 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories with a behind-the-scenes take on the album standout “Fragments of Time” featuring Todd Edwards. “The Writing of Fragments of Time” is what it says it is: an …
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Daft Punk, the defunct, dome-headed dance duo, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their final album, Random Access Memories, by reissuing the album with 35 minutes of previously unreleased music across nine tracks. The expanded edition of the album will be available on double-CD and triple-LP, and it will be …
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Thomas Bangalter — one half of the duo Daft Punk, who announced their split in 2021 — has released the first track, “L’Accouchement” from Mythologies, his upcoming debut solo album. It arrives on April 7 via Erato/Warner Classics. Bangalter’s orchestral composition — along with the rest of Mythologies — is …
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Daft Punk have shared a behind-the-scenes clip revealing the original storyboards for their beloved 1997 Michel Gondry-directed music video for “Around the World.” The video — originally part of the band’s DVD, D.A.F.T., also released in 1997 — showcases hand-drawn storyboards with scribbled instructions. The original music video features numerous …
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Daft Punk will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Homework, by releasing a deluxe edition of the album and hosting a one-time-only livestream of a 1997 concert. Both the deluxe edition and the livestream will drop today, 2/22/2022 at — fittingly — at 2:22 p.m. PT (that’s the …
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