If you like music and you’ve been on the Internet in the past few weeks, you can’t go far without seeing Daft Punk’s name in print. The French dance duo came back in a big way this month with the release of Random Access Memories , a stirringly retro dance album and their first proper studio album in eight years (a live album and the soundtrack to TRON: Legacy have all appeared in the interim). Deftly zigging where an EDM-fueled crowd expected them to […]
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Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: Album Review
From their 1997 debut Homework and even moreso with 2001’s Discovery, Daft Punk arguably became the foremost ambassadors of electronic music, at once pleasing the discerning tastes of college radio and mainstream audiences. They’ve simultaneously managed to maintain a sort of indie credibility while shilling commercial products for The Gap, Sony, Victoria’s Secret, Coca-Cola, and Adidas. Today’s release of Random Access Memories is one of 2013’s most anticipated releases, the culmination of a months-long publicity campaign waged primarily through television […]
“Get Lucky” with Daft Punk’s New Joint (Finally)
Some disco goodness, courtesy of Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams.
John Taylor’s In The Pleasure Groove: Book Review
Duran Duran’s John Taylor joins the club of rock star autobiographies with “In the Pleasure Groove.” Is the bassist’s memoir worth reading?
bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (90-81)
How about some hardcore? Black Flag’s “Damaged” is in our next installment of the ’80s’ top 100 albums. Find out who else made the cut!
Spin Cycle: Adam Lambert’s Trespassing
Glambert is back for round two! The pop star’s new album is called “Trespassing,” and it’s a dance-pop triumph. Check out the review!
Reading Is Fundamental: Nile Rodgers’ “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco & Destiny”
Awww freak out! Singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Nile Rodgers has a book out, and we’ve reviewed it!!
Blerd’s Notes: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of Duran Duran (Part Two)
In our first installment, we (me, Carlos Halston and Jesse) covered the beginning of Duran Duran’s career, when the Fab Five took over MTV and the world with their catchy (albeit maddeningly indecipherable) songs, their exotic good looks and their cinematic video clips. Thought Nick, Andy, John, Roger and Simon would stay together forever? Wrong! The band temporarily split in 1985, with Simon, Nick and Roger releasing an album as Arcadia while Andy and John recorded and toured as The […]
Blerd Appreciation: Nile Rodgers
They say that you should give people their flowers while they can still smell ’em, and I agree with that adage 110%. What’s the point of explaining how much someone meant to you after they’re gone? Last week, singer/songwriter/producer/guitarist Nile Rodgers announced that he’d been fighting an aggressive strain of prostate cancer for several months. His blog , entitled “Walking on Planet C”, recounts his recent struggle with the illness. I, like many others around the world, have confidence that Nile […]
All You Need to Know About the Music of…Madonna
Doing a series on Popdose dedicated to the music of Michael Jackson got me to thinking. How many other artists (or bands) are out there whose entire discography I’m familiar with? Of course, there are always means by which you can familiarize yourself with an artist’s entire oeuvre, but there’s a handful of acts that I can pretty much go in on without having to do a shit-ton of research (or listening to bad albums), which is why the Popdose guides to […]