Exciting as the prospect of pushing buttons and scratching records in simulation of pushing buttons and scratching records might be, Activision's expansion into the realm of the DJ Hero has netted online demand "well below" expectations. Not even Daft Punk... CONTINUE READING HEAR DJ HERO'S DAFT PUNK, JUSTICE, WEEZER MASHUPS»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Dizzee Rascal | DJ Hero | Gorillaz | Jackson 5 | Justice | Marvin Gaye | The Streets | Third Eye Blind | Weezer | Young MC
Activision's released a list of the 93 mash-ups (Feat. 100 songs) included on Daft Punk's post-Guitar Hero game. Fans of electronic music may be bummed. Fans of Bell Biv DeVoe will not. Plus, MC Hammer Vs. Vanilla Ice for the... CONTINUE READING DJ HERO PLAYLIST REVEALED»
Posted on October 7, 2009 in (2 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | DJ Hero
We knew the French duo scored the new Tron, but seems they also show their masked faces in the flick. Olivia Wilde, who plays Jeff "Kevin Flynn" Bridges' pal Cora, let the tidbit "slip" during an interview with MTV.... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK TO APPEAR IN TRON: LEGACY»
Posted on October 6, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | The Knux | Tron
Lately Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have been turning up in new and noteworthy contexts -- like going helmetless in clubs. And soundtracking films. But none are as new or noteworthy as their previously reported decision to license their... CONTINUE READING PREVIEW DAFT PUNK'S DJ HERO»
Posted on September 18, 2009 in , , (5 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | DJ AM | DJ Hero | DJ Jazzy Jeff | DJ Shadow | Grandmaster Flash
The iconic French duo have licensed their likenesses, beats, stage sets, and 11 exclusive mixes to the forthcoming video game. Looking forward to unlocking the robots and having them DJ a bar mitzvah. More at RS. ... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK SIGN ON TO DJ HERO»
Posted on September 11, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | DJ Hero
As reported, the makers of the Tron sequel (now called TRON: LEGACY) tapped robots of Daft Punk to score their forthcoming remake. And as Twilight fans Thom Yorke and Bon Iver reminded us earlier today, it is Comic-Con week, the... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK'S TRON: LEGACY SOUNDTRACK WILL PROBABLY SOUND LIKE THIS»
Posted on July 24, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: Comic-Con | Daft Punk | Tron
Last night's Dim Mak Tuesdays at Los Angeles's Cinespace started off as a clusterfuck of Ed Bangers (SebastiAn, SoMe, Gaspard from Justice, etc.) celebrating Busy P's birthday. Then Thomas Bangalter surprised the crowd by jumping on the decks, and everybody... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK'S THOMAS BANGALTER DOES HELMET-LESS DJ SET IN LA»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in (57 comments)
Tags: Busy P | Daft Punk | Justice | Thomas Bangalter
We'd joked that the Grammy people consulted the makers of Tron re: their stage design and before that Kanye referenced the flick with the help of Daft Punk. Taking advantage of the zeitgeist, Walt Disney Pictures has tapped the French... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK TO SCORE TRON 2»
Posted on March 4, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Girls
Remember the 50th Annual Grammy Awards? Alicia Keys duetting with the ghost of Sinatra? Will.i.am rapping nonsense? Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters??? It's easy (and fun!) to make fun of the Grammys, but last year they really... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD, LIL WAYNE NOMINATED FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY»
Posted on December 3, 2008 (64 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Band Of Horses | Beck | Daft Punk | Death Cab For Cutie | Gnarls Barkley | Grammys | Hot Chip | Justice | Kanye West | Kings Of Leon | Lollapalooza | M.I.A. | Metallica | MGMT | My Morning Jacket | Ne-Yo | No Age | Radiohead | Robert Plant | Robyn | The Raconteurs | Weezer
Adam Michael Goldstein, aka Los Angeles-based DJ AM, aka the guy who survived that recent plane crash with Travis Barker, made his Halloween costume count this year: Rumors were spreading online that Daft Punk were the "special guests" on Halloween... CONTINUE READING DJ AM DAFT PUNKS HARD FEST»
Posted on November 3, 2008 (11 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | DJ AM | The Thermals | Yo La Tengo
The song: "Technologic." The purpose: to make you buy a Lincoln (such a smooth ride, guys). Of course the purpose also is for Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter to earn a few bucks, and we won't fault the robots... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK STUMPS FOR THE LINCOLN MKS»
Posted on September 8, 2008 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Busta Rhymes | Daft Punk | SXSW | The Thermals
Alphabeat, that danceable, '80s-loving Danish sextet, have promised us "10,000 Nights Of Thunder," which is why covering Daft Punk's "Digital Love" makes perfect sense: It takes care of at least one night ... and this dream ... and you. It... CONTINUE READING ALPHABEAT COVER DAFT PUNK»
Posted on May 15, 2008 in (11 comments)
Tags: Alphabeat | Daft Punk | Foreign Born | SXSW
"Daftendirekt," to be exact. The result of her daring innovation? Well, Discipline's "So Much Betta" basically sounds like the Chipmunks covering "Milkshake" ... which is to say it sounds awesome. But really, how much more Daft sampling can we take? Even will.i.am sampled them, though if you remember, the Robots put the kibosh on that rhymery, so he was forced to "leak" the tune. No worries, will, you'd be be better off "sampling" a rhyming dictionary.
Posted on February 21, 2008 (7 comments)
Maybe "great" is too strong a word. And five is too high a number for a list like this. If you missed the ceremony, we don't blame you (no Wire spoilers, please), but we can't condone spending more than twenty... CONTINUE READING THE FOUR GREATEST PERFORMANCES OF THE 2008 GRAMMYS»
Posted on February 11, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Beyoncé | Daft Punk | Grammys | Herbie Hancock | Howard Jones | Kanye West | The Time | Tina Turner
Welcome to Stereogum's sarcastic play-by-play of the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. We're moments before showtime and Amy Winehouse has already won Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and a new set of teeth. Tonight promises an exciting... CONTINUE READING LIVEBLOGGING THE 2008 GRAMMYS»
Posted on February 10, 2008 (174 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Beyoncé | Daft Punk | Dave Stewart | Feist | Foo Fighters | Grammys | Herbie Hancock | Jay-Z | Kanye West | Kid Rock | Rihanna | Ringo Starr | The Beatles | Tina Turner | will.i.am
Aphex Twin returned to our headphones via an inspired Andy Samberg/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad affair. If you need another flavor of Richard James in your mouth -- uh, gross -- trip-hop to 100dbs's place, where the man that brought you The Argyle... CONTINUE READING APHEX TWIN GETS MASHED UP»
Posted on November 16, 2007 in (14 comments)
Tags: 100dbs | Aphex Twin | Daft Punk | Nas | Peaches
Remember this? Clever, right? Now it's become some dumb meme, and we blame Kanye. A few examples...... CONTINUE READING DAFT PUNK SYNCHRONIZED AEROBICS»
Posted on November 16, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk
Daft Punk's show at Keyspan Park on Coney Island this summer was the show where everyone (well, not everyone) saw god. The divine robots, in their providence, compassion and good grace, asked fans to bring video recording equipment to capture... CONTINUE READING NEW DAFT PUNK LIVE VIDEO - "HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER"»
Posted on October 29, 2007 in (24 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk
Getting so used to hearing Daft Punk sampled and clipped –- legally and otherwise –- that we almost forgot about their killer robo triangle-topping live show. In this clip of a "One More Time" and "Aerodynamic" masher at London's Wireless... CONTINUE READING NEW DAFT PUNK LIVE VIDEO - "ONE MORE TIME/AERODYNAMIC" @ WIRELESS FESTIVAL (LONDON)»
Posted on October 1, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk
As we've learned recently, the Black Eyed Pea guy with questionable period usage has got a full palette of marketable attributes, what with his enviable gift for rhymery and deep understanding of Mendelian genetics, but let's not forget, he's not... CONTINUE READING WILL.I.AM GETS DAFT PUNK'D»
Posted on September 28, 2007 in (24 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | will.i.am
It's back to school time, but Graduation's in the air (okay, stop the groaning, we'll stop the puns). You know hip-hop non-listeners haven't paid this much attention to a rapper since, well, Kanye himself dissed George W. during that Hurricane... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: KANYE WEST - GRADUATION»
Posted on August 31, 2007 in (60 comments)
Tags: 50 Cent | Coldplay | Daft Punk | Kanye West | Steely Dan
Plenty of guitar rawk to go around, but Lolla Day One was a dancer's delight: Ghostland Observatory, M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk ... bodies were moved and clothes were drenched. But of course there was plenty of fun from... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA '07: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 4, 2007 in (19 comments)
Tags: Ben Harper | Daft Punk | Ghostland Observatory | LCD Soundsystem | Lollapalooza | Pearl Jam | Satellite Party | Silversun Pickups | Sparklehorse | Ted Leo | The Fratellis | The Polyphonic Spree | The Rapture
Kanye takes videos really, really seriously. And Hype Williams keeps it nothing but high-concept for "Stronger": The Daft robots monitor world events and tweak the settings on million-dollar-Kanye so he can be a harder, better, faster, stronger playa. Think about... CONTINUE READING NEW KANYE WEST VIDEO - "STRONGER"»
Posted on June 27, 2007 in (99 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Kanye West
He's easy to hate on, but every so often Kanye's sample/egomaniacal rant combo is just too good to resist. But Mr. West isn't content just with a solid banger in the Daft Punk-sampling "Stronger"; he wants the appropriation to be... CONTINUE READING A CONTRAST IN VIDEO STYLES: KANYE VS. DAFT PUNK»
Posted on June 22, 2007 in (20 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Kanye West
