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Earlier this week, an employee of U Street Music Hall strolled down 14th Street NW and ducked into Som Records to buy a vinyl copy of the most hyped album of the year, Daft Punk's "Random Access ...
Daft Punk returns to No. 1 on Dance/Electronic Albums and sets the pace on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs following multiple Grammy wins. Zedd, a fellow Grammy winner, and Timeflies debut new singles ...
By Gordon Murray Daft Punk debuts on Billboard‘s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart (dated Dec. 10) with Homework: Remixes at No. 17. The limited edition two-LP Record Store Day release earned ...
But at the 56th annual Grammys on Jan. 26, one of the cornerstone dance duos of the past two decades — Daft Punk — is up for four awards, including album and record of the year, and will be ...
His companion walks away, and eventually explodes. Formed in Paris in 1993, Daft Punk are credited for bringing the French underground house scene to the charts. They are considered one of the ...
Like its platinum 1997 debut album, Daft Punk's new CD, "Discovery," incorporates genres that range from funk to acid house to new-wave disco. The results are predictably satisfying and dance ...
Daft Punk returned this year with a huge comeback album, Random Access Memories, and they’ve now released the album’s first official video. The video is for the song “Lose Yourself to Dance ...
It was like a door that opened onto more doors. Daft Punk lay at the center of their own universe, popularizing dance music to audiences who may not have cared, while still maintaining their roots ...
Daft Punk have split up. It’s truly the end of an era. The robots ruled underground dance music and then transcended into full-blown pop stars before turning into a mythical entity that rarely made ...
“Lose Yourself to Dance” is the lesser of the pair, obviously, but it’s also one of the funkiest tracks Daft Punk ever put out, with a major assist from Nile Rodgers of Chic on guita ...
Daft Punk was most known for pummeling, repetitively enthralling dance music heavy on the vocoder, synthesizers and drum machines. Well, if you didn’t know them prior to “Get Lucky”, you ...
On Monday, the ur-French-dance-music duo Daft Punk announced – via the slick and typically cryptic video above, featuring a dramatic self-destruct sequence – that it was hanging up the helmets ...