Hey, Playboy Magazine , that ever-reputable institution of letters and boobies, is hooking up with the rock'n'roll community yet again for this year's edition of their Rock the Rabbit series.
Just like the rest of America (which, if you haven't heard, has a serious case of Daft Punk fever), watching Daft Punk perform--in robot suits, atop a futuristic pyramid with enough lasers and special effects to make George Lucas reconsider his career options--had me talking about nothing else for a week.
In the 2006 silent film "Electroma, " Hero Robot No. 1 and Hero Robot No. 2 take off across the country in a black 1987 Ferrari to become, as it says on their license plate, "HUMAN." The avant-garde sci-fi flick was written and directed by the French electronica duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo (a.k.a. Daft Punk, below). Actors
DISCIPLINE. Janet Jackson uses new collaborators and new sounds to write about the same old thing. Grade: B-minus On the title track of her new "Discipline" (Island Def Jam) album, over a loop of heavy breathing and Prince-ly slow-grinding synth-funk, Janet Jackson coos, "Take out your frustrations on me." Well, she didn't need to invite more of that, did she? Since the infamous Super Bowl
Michel Gondry is one of the most technically creative directors working today. From his inventive music videos for Daft Punk and The White Stripes to the online videos of him solving a Rubik's Cube with his feet and nose, Gondry takes the simplest things and magically makes them awe-inspiring.
(PR) ABKCO Records' release of the Rolling Stones' classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)," as featured in Columbia Pictures' 21, launched last week at iTunes.
So, the Daft Punk hoaxer calling himself ‘Louis La Roche’ has been exposed and it isn’t Paul Epworth, or Hot Chip ’s Joe Goddard, or Erol Alkan as we furtively suggested yesterday – instead, a swindled ‘blogosphere will surely turn its wrath on
A track hurled into the, er, ‘blogosphere on Valentine’s Day – allegedly a new recording from Daft Punk ’s Thomas Bangalter – has been exposed as a hoax.