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Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’: A Timeline of the Global Teaser Campaign
May 17, 2013 1:20 PM EDT 2 15 34 0 0 It started with a Facebook post: Two helmets, one gold and one silver, halved and fused down the center, set against plain black. Then came the 15-second ad, aired during the March 2 episode of “Saturday Night Live”; its first appearance onlin ...
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Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories': Track-By-Track Review
May 13, 2013 6:43 PM EDT 861 308 20 0 There's a point on "Doin' It Right," the penultimate track on Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories," where the album's utter lack of post-modern ambitions smacks the listener in the face. "Everybody ...
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Daft Punk: How the Pioneering Dance Duo Conjured 'Random Access Memories'
May 10, 2013 12:30 PM EDT 440 245 7 0 Shrouded in calculated mystery and unveiled gradually via traditional media, the act's first album in eight years is a bold, high-end effort to make everything old new again It started with a Facebook post: Two helmets, one gold and one s ...
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Giorgio Moroder on His Return to Popular Music at 73, Teaming With Daft Punk, Avicii
April 26, 2013 6:50 PM EDT 633 102 11 0 On April 18, Italian disco/synth-pop pioneer Giorgio Moroder posted a picture of two sound waves on his Facebook page, comparing the moderate volume and beats of his 1977 heyday with the louder sound and denser rhythms of today's EDM. &q ...
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Daft Punk Tease New Album at Coachella, During 'Saturday Night Live,' Reveal Guests
April 14, 2013 2:16 AM EDT Daft Punk may not be on the official Coachella lineup this year, still the French electronic duo still managed to grab the attention of concert-goers talking in the festival's first day (April 12) Daft Punk broadcasted a new trailer for the ...
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Brian Eno, Lee Scratch Perry, Giorgio Moroder Announced For Red Bull Music Academy NYC
March 04, 2013 1:03 PM EST The Red Bull Music Academy today announced the complete line-up for the 15th edition of its music festival and conference to be held in New York City this spring and which will include 230 artists playing 37 shows at 34 venues between April 28 – M ...
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Daft Punk Signs With Columbia, Source Confirms
January 27, 2013 1:05 PM EST 2 865 68 0 Sony Music is ramping up its dance music arsenal. Just three days after announcing a new strategic alliance with EDM powerhouse Ultra Records, news is emerging that Columbia Records has signed Daft Punk. A source confirmed that it's a &quo ...
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Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Scoring Lindsay Lohan's 'First Point'
June 11, 2012 9:08 PM EDT The music of Daft Punk may seem better suited for sci-fi blockbusters than California waves, but the group's Thomas Bangalter is trying his hand at the beach with a new film score. The robot-headed producer has provided the music for "Firs ...
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Donna Summer Laid to Rest in Nashville
May 24, 2012 8:51 PM EDT Family and some of her closest friends helped celebrate the life of Donna Summer at the singer's funeral. A private memorial service was held Wednesday for Summer at Christ Presbyterian in Nashville, Tenn., where she had been a resident since 1 ...
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Donna Summer - In Memoriam: There Will Always Be a You
May 18, 2012 8:44 AM EDT Donna Summer at the 1977 Billboard Music Awards (Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage) Michael Paoletta was for ten years Billboard's esteemed dance/electronic music editor. He not only interviewed Donna Summer (and her producer Giorgio Moroder) o ...
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Donna Summer's Top 20 Billboard Chart Hits
May 17, 2012 2:15 PM EDT Donna Summer may have been referred to as the Queen of Disco, but her Billboard chart hits weren't confined to the so-called "disco era" of the late 1970s. While she earned a string of smash singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in t ...
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Donna Summer's Enduring Billboard Chart Successes
May 17, 2012 1:29 PM EDT Donna Summer may have been referred to as the Queen of Disco, but her Billboard chart hits weren't confined to the so-called "disco era" of the late 1970s. Donna Summer, 'Queen of Disco,' Dead at 63 While she earned a stri ...
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Donna Summer, 'Queen of Disco,' Dead at 63
May 17, 2012 11:40 AM EDT Donna Summer, the 'Queen of Disco,' died today of cancer. She was 63. Summer is perhaps best known for her mid-70s tracks "Love to Love You Baby," produced by Giorgio Moroder which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 19 ...
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Will.I.Am, Giorgio Moroder, Danny Tenaglia Added as International Music Summit Speakers
May 15, 2012 11:26 AM EDT Will.I.Am is the latest big name to be added to the International Music Summit's impressive and growing list of keynote speakers, while Giorgio Moroder will also be on hand and Danny Tenaglia will be video confererencing in from Manhattan to ...
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Happy 30th Birthday, Chart Beat
March 28, 2011 4:05 PM EDT On this date 30 years ago, Billboard introduced a new column that "look(s) behind the numbers and, hopefully, put(s) it all in some perspective." In the March 28, 1981, issue of the print magazine, Billboard published the first Chart Beat. ...
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Going For The Gold (& Platinum)
February 16, 2010 4:35 PM EST As the Olympics reclaim the sporting world's spotlight, Chart Beat looks back at how the Games have impacted Billboard's charts. (We'll leave out any songs by the R&B band known as the Olympics , "Snow (Hey Oh)" by Red H ...
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Goldfrapp "Head First" Album Preview
January 15, 2010 1:40 PM EST Goldfrapp, Head First (Mute) Release Date: March 23 U.K. duo Goldfrapp made a surprising detour away from synth-based pop into acoustic-driven folk and ballads on 2008's "Seventh Tree," which reached a career-best No. 48 on The Billbo ...
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Sparks / May 28, 2008 / London (Islington Academy)
May 30, 2008 12:00 AM EDT If it's Wednesday, it must be 1981. Such is the weirdly adjusted time-space continuum in the Sparks world at the moment. The indestructible Mael brothers of Sparks find themselves living out their ent If it's Wednesday, it must be 1981. Su ...
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'World' Party
May 20, 2007 12:00 AM EDT After an unexpected acoustic detour with last year's "Union Street," veteran synth-pop duo Erasure is back in familiar territory for "Light at the End of the World," due this week via Mute. After an unexpected acoustic detou ...
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Erasure Sees The 'Light' On New Album
February 09, 2007 12:00 AM EST After an unexpected acoustic detour with last year's "Union Street," veteran synth-pop duo Erasure is back in familiar territory for "Light at the End of the World," due May 22 via Mute. The 10-track After an unexpected acou ...
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B-Real Theme Keys 'Scarface' Videogame Soundtrack
October 04, 2006 12:00 AM EDT "We are fans of the movie, fans of hip-hop and fans of video games," B-Real tells Billboard.com, "So when we were approached to do a song, we jumped right in." In addition to nearly 100 well-known tracks from the '80s, Viven ...
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'80s Hits, Custom Mixing Spark 'Scarface' Game
August 11, 2006 12:00 AM EDT Johnny Cash, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C are among the artists contributing hit tracks to Vivendi Games' Sierra Entertainment division's "Scarface: The World Is Yours," due in O Johnny Cash, Debbie Harry, I ...
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Dancing Queen
November 13, 2005 12:00 AM EST "I wanted a record with no ballads," Madonna says simply about "Confessions on a Dance Floor," due this week via Warner Bros. "I wanted there to be no breaks, with one song segueing into the next -- j "I wanted a record ...
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Madonna Confesses
November 07, 2005 12:00 AM EST Her latest studio album due, Madonna sits with Billboard to discuss its content and controversy and more. Madonna is among your busier superstars. On Nov. 15, Warner Bros. will release her latest studio album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor,&quo ...
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Madonna Mulling 'Confessions' Tour
November 04, 2005 12:00 AM EST On the heels of her 2004 Re-Invention tour, which grossed $125 million, Madonna tells Billboard she is mulling another round of live dates. "I'm currently exploring the possibility," she says. "If I g On the heels of her 2004 Re- ...
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CHART BEAT CHAT
July 22, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Fred Bronson answers e-mail from readers. I SING THE ELTON ELECTRIC Dear Fred, This week "Ghetto Gospel" by 2Pac featuring Elton John is No. 2 and Elton's brand new single "Electricity" is No. 4 in the United Kingdom (and El ...
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Moroder, Bee Gees Among Dance Hall Inductees
September 03, 2004 12:00 AM EDT The Dance Music Hall of Fame will hold its inaugural induction ceremony Sept. 20 at the Spirit club in New York. The Dance Music Hall of Fame will hold its inaugural induction ceremony Sept. 20 at the Spirit club in New York. The artists, producers, ...
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Beat Box
September 01, 2004 12:00 AM EDT The 11th annual Billboard Dance Music Summit seals Giorgio Moroder and Paul Van Dyk as participants. Read Michael Paoletta's column. The 11th annual Billboard Dance Music Summit seals Giorgio Moroder and Paul Van Dyk as participants. Read Mic ...
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Moroder, Van Dyk Set For Billboard Dance Summit
August 27, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Legendary producer Giorgio Moroder and top international DJ/producer Paul Van Dyk are confirmed to appear at the Billboard Dance Music Summit, to be held Sept. 20-22 at the Union Square Ballroom in Ne Legendary producer Giorgio Moroder and top inter ...
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Donna Summer's 'Journey'
October 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. The fall season may be here, but it appears that a return of Summer is just around the corner. It all begins with a new greatest-hits collection, "The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer" ( ...
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Bad Girls—Deluxe Edition
August 16, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Many forget that Donna Summer's 1979 "Bad Girls" album earned five Grammy Award nominations, including album of the year. Many forget that Donna Summer's 1979 "Bad Girls" album earned five Grammy Award nominations, incl ...
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Do You Party?
June 14, 2003 12:00 AM EDT The Soft Pink Truth is the brainchild of Drew Daniel, who is one-half of production outfit Matmos. The Soft Pink Truth is the brainchild of Drew Daniel, who is one-half of production outfit Matmos. His genre-trouncing debut, Do You Party?, features ...
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Sin, Win & Grin
July 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT With the nÜ-electro movement making big strides (see story, page 1), along comes the full-length debut from West Coast-based duo T.H.E.M., an acronym for Thee Human Ego Maniacs, otherwise known With the nü-electro movement making big strides (see st ...
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Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau
June 15, 2002 12:00 AM EDT With Disco Nouveau, the nÜ-electro movement—also called electrocrash and electroclash—has yet another reason to be cheerful. With Disco Nouveau, the nü-electro movement—also called electrocrash and electroclash—has yet another reason to be cheerful. ...
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The Anglo Files
July 03, 2001 12:00 AM EDT F-Communications celebrations, Bent's MP3 album, Bob Sinclair pays homage to Cerrone, and the Beta Band returns. F-Comm Celebrations Hit U.K. F-Communications, Laurent Garnier's influential French label, continues its seventh birthday cele ...
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Daft Punk On Road To 'Discovery'
February 23, 2001 12:00 AM EST The usual measure of Gallic reserve isn't enough for Thomas Bangalter and Guy -- Manuel de Homem-Christo -- the two Parisian mavericks behind Daft Punk. The dance/ pop duo's visual modus operandi The usual measure of Gallic reserve isn ...
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Daft Punk On Road To 'Discovery'
February 23, 2001 12:00 AM EST The usual measure of Gallic reserve isn't enough for Thomas Bangalter and Guy -- Manuel de Homem-Christo -- the two Parisian mavericks behind Daft Punk. The dance/ pop duo's visual modus operandi invo The usual measure of Gallic reserve is ...
