Up all night to get jeté! Thomas Bangalter on hanging up his Daft Punk helmet – and leaping into ballet | Music

‘I multitasked for 20 years’ … Bangalter, in the silver helmet, in Daft Punk.

On 1 January 2000, childhood friends Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided to become robots. For the release of their second album, Discovery, the Daft Punk duo enlisted Hollywood effects designer Tony Gardner to […]

12 acts we can’t wait to see at Coachella

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While Coachella 2023 headliners Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will attract the largest crowds and the most IG posts, as ever, it’s the you-saw-them-when acts that will provide future bragging rights to fans in […]

Ex-Daft Punk co-creator Thomas Bangalter releases classical music album : NPR

Ex-Daft Punk co-creator Thomas Bangalter releases classical music album : NPR

Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj. Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 hide caption toggle caption Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 Thomas Bangalter, half […]

EDC Las Vegas 2023 Long-Awaited Lineup Is Here

EDC Las Vegas 2023 Long-Awaited Lineup Is Here

Photo Credit: Stephen Bondio for Insomniac Events As Insomniac celebrates its 30 year anniversary, more than 230 artists representing various electronic music genres are uniting across nine stages to celebrate art and music at EDC […]

David Guetta, Zedd, Marshmello, And Tiësto Set For EDC Las Vegas

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Insomniac has announced the highly anticipated music festival lineup for Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) Las Vegas. David Guetta, Zedd, Marshmello, Afrojack, Chris Lake, and Tiësto–the only artist to have performed at every iteration of EDC […]

Talking Back-to-Backs and Full-Circle Moments with Nicole Moudaber [Interview]

Talking Back-to-Backs and Full-Circle Moments with Nicole Moudaber [Interview]

Techno is in a peculiar place at the moment. A genre that was once side-barred for smaller stages at music festivals or 3 am after parties has slowly crept into the mainstream EDM space. It’s […]

BLOND:ISH Pushes Vinyl Industry Towards Sustainable Future With Biodegradable, Bacteria-Based Record

BLOND:ISH Pushes Vinyl Industry Towards Sustainable Future With Biodegradable, Bacteria-Based Record

This first-of-its-kind vinyl compilation is entirely compostable. BLOND:ISH continues to usher the music industry towards a plastic-free future with the release of the world’s most sustainable vinyl record. The environmental activist, dance music producer and […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto: the avant gardist who became a groundbreaking pop star | Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto performing in 1988.

Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art […]

The music that influenced 1tbsp’s ‘It’s Very Loud’

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The music that influenced 1tbsp’s It’s Very Loud EP 1tbsp image via Lili Cotter 1tbsp is an indie-house/dance project from Grammy Award Nominee songwriter/producer Maxwell Byrne (Golden Vessel). Hailing from Brisbane, the multi-talented artist, when […]

Freewheelin’ to fame – the untold story of Bob Dylan’s iconic VW van | Bob Dylan

The 1963 VW van for which Jack Ubaldi traded the Dylan cover van, manufactured in 1961.

New York City’s Greenwich Village has always been a magnet for outsiders, artists and poets. In 1963, one of those types was Bob Dylan, a kid from Minnesota who had felt the pull of the […]

Can you copyright a rhythm? Inside the reggaeton lawsuit that could shake the pop world | Music

The label on the 7” single of Fish Market by Steely & Clevie

With the release of their song Fish Market in 1989, the Jamaican duo Cleveland “Clevie” Browne and Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson inadvertently changed the course of pop music. The track featured the first known example of […]