In the five years since Daft Punk announced their breakup, Thomas Bangalter has kept himself busy by scoring films, soundtracking contemporary dance performances, teaming up with young artists like Lil Nas X and Fred again.., and composing music for ballets. His first solo album, in fact, was 2023’s Mythologies, an orchestral work for Angelin Preljocaj’s eponymous ballet that didn’t sound very much like Daft Punk at all. Today Bangalter has announced his next ballet endeavor, Mirage, which is billed as “a vast and atmospheric piece of electronic minimalism.” That doesn’t sound much like Daft Punk either, but it’s closer!

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Duran Duran and Chic legend Nile Rodgers go way, way back together. When they first started, Duran Duran described their own sound as Chic meets the Sex Pistols, and they scored their first #1 hit in the US when Rodgers remixed their 1984 single “The Reflex.” Rodgers and Duran Duran went on to work together…

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Look, it’s a Grouper tour! These days Liz Harris rarely goes on the road in North America; when she does play shows, she tends to stay closer to her native West Coast. But today she’s announced a run of six tour dates this September, kicking off with an appearance at Chicago’s Sound & Gravity Festival before hitting the East Coast. She’ll make stops in Toronto, Montreal, Kingston, New York, and DC. See those dates below.

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It’s been less than a year since Neil Young released Talkin To The Trees, his first album with new backing band Chrome Hearts. But it sounds like Young and his associates are already ready to spring another one on us.

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Courtney Love, by her own admission, has quickly gone from “Geese-curious” to Geese appreciator. In a couple of Instgram reels earlier this year, the Hole frontwoman said she was still “trying to get” the Brooklyn band, later updating fans that she was “fully liking it” despite “gatekeeping elder millennial troll fans.” Now, a few weeks after she posted on her story from a Geese show in the UK, she’s singing along.

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Kim Petras has a brief flirtation with mainstream pop stardom after she appeared on Sam Smith’s 2022 chart-topper “Unholy,” but it didn’t fully click. Since then, Petras has gone back to making the kind of confrontational, hyper-artificial dance-pop that brought her to the dance in the first place. Earlier this year, she asked for her…

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As the Bandcamp page explains, “Media Puzzle (May 7, 1997 – June 22, 2006), foaled in the United States, was an Irish horse best known for his win in the 2002 Melbourne Cup.” A few years ago, a group of Australians borrowed that name for their band, whose new album is appropriately titled New Racehorse.…

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Remember Two Minutes To Late Night? That was my motherfucking shit. Two Minutes To Late Night started off as a metal-themed late-night talk show parody at the tragically defunct Brooklyn venue St. Vitus, but it turned into something else during the pandemic. The comedian Jordan Olds, in character as Gwarsenio Hall, would round up heavy…

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Over the past month or so, the former pop-rap hitmaker Jack Harlow has gone viral for some incredibly dumb reasons. He just released his neo-soul album Monica, and during the promotional rounds, he went on the New York Times Popcast, he told two white music writers that he “got Blacker.” Also he wore a gigantic and very silly hat in his “Say Hello” video. As a result, Harlow has been the target of jokes from august institutions like Saturday Night Live and Dionne Warwick.

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