Daft Punk first ever TV appearance

Usually reluctant on being in medias, Daft Punk made their first TV appearance ever during the 50th Grammy ceremony last night. Performing with Kanye West on his track "Stronger" the French duet pushed the buttons in their now trademarked pyramid.

Get acquainted with dubstep

Emanating from the fertile UK scene, last year saw dubstep started taking over the world. With his second album, Burial won the praise of the blogosphere, music critics and the music scene alike putting the sheding light on a style that's been around for some time but never broke out.

One of the first radio DJ on a major station to champion dubstep, Mary Anne Hobbs has made a audio documentary essential to the genre. Beloved MC for all the experimental and ahead-of-their-time music artists, M-A Hobbs knows the people and is the perfect host for a 30-minutes tour of the Dubstep world.

Meet the artists, get to know the roots and listen to the essential tunes that are building one fine genre of music.

Dubstep souljah documentary presented by Mary-Anne Hobbs, over at the BBC website.

We love Detroit

Championed by every minimal and electro DJ at some point last year, it went down as one of the best of 2007. Here we are not speaking about the terrible " Put your Hands Up for Detroit " but the deep and moody " Who's Afraid of Detroit " from Claude Von Stroke.

The official video has finally dropped. Shot in the windy city and for some parts at the DEMF ( Detroit Electronic Music Festival ), it pays homage to this influential place in the electronic music history.

Coachella 2008 line up announced

If you are still in need of more, and much more it is, after Culture One the past weekend : Coachella's organisers have revealed today the official 3-day festival bill.

A long list of new promising acts are lined up including Midnight Juggernauts, The Teenagers, Surkin or Para One.

Coachella is also bringing two legendary UK groups back on stage for what seems to be an eternity since we last heard from them. Portishead and The Verve will play new materials from their forthcoming albums. Expectations are high, especially about Portishead after a 10-year absence.

The festival will be held April 25-27. More infos : http://www.blogger.com/www.coachella.com

We are family !

Tuneglue will have you spending hours typing and looking up for artists you know and those who you don't.

Fed with Last.fm and Amazon databases, the site helps you visualize the connections between artists through animated graphics. Type your favorite band name and see who sounds similar or could be related with.

Addictive but informative, to say the least...

Fight for your right to party

It takes a small group of mates, some records and few bottles to hold a nice house party. For some, it is not enough and that was the case of sixteen-year-old Corey Delaney who posted on the internet an invitation to his own house thing.

His parents had left for some holiday and they were far from thinking that at the same time 500 people had come to their crib in Melbourne for a party of mayhem. Corey argues the whole thing went out of his hands and before he realised what whas going on, it was far too late.
The police was called by the neighbors only to see themselves faced by the pack of revellers. After police cars and property were damaged, 30 officers, a dog squad and a helicopter were called as back-up, leaving Corey unapologetic and proud of himself.

See for yourself our hero of the month.

Fabric tells Justice " You're not coming in "

Electro duo of 2007 Justice were awaited by their fans and Fabric CDs alike for their the mix CD debut. The date of December was chosen but, alas, Fabric will never put their mix out.

Arguing they didn't want to release just another loud compilation, Justice instead chose a very personal list of tracks, mixing obvious French influences and corny tracks. Stepping away from a dancefloor compilation, and with such a daring list of no-names ( it could have been a great Back To Mine ), the CD got nixed by the label but is living on the internet. Distributed by Ed Banger as a Christmas gift, it is now one hot file exchanged on the web.
We're not failing. Since the free distribution is encouraged and as we dig the hairy boys, download the mix HERE.

TRACKLIST

01 Sparks – Tryouts For The Human Race
02 Rondo Veneziano – La Serenissima
03 Goblin – Tenebrae
04 Daft Punk – Ouverture
05 Surkin – Next Of Kin
06 Symbolone – Love Juice
07 Korgis – Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometimes
08 Midnight Juggernauts – Ending Of An Era
09 The Paradise Ft Romauld – In Love With You
10 Justice – TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY (Acapella)
11 Chic – Everybody Dance
12 Frankie Valli – Who Loves You
13 Das Pop – Underground
14 Julien Clerc – Quand Je Joue
15 Daniel Balavoine – Vivre Ou Survivre
16 Richard Sanderson – Reality
17 Zoot Woman – Grey Day
18 Fucking Champs – Thor Is Like Immortal
19 The Rave – Mother
20 Fancy – You Never Know
21 Frank Stallone – Far From Over
22 Sheila – Misery
23 Todd Rundgren – International Feel

Playboy rocks !

Despite its meaning girls might seem oblivious of, the Playboy rabbit head logo is finally trendy. After flirting with the electro scene, Playboy is jumping on the indie rock bandwagon and asked an impressive list of A-list artists to design T-shirts.

The pieces will be available online.

The website announces Hot Chip, The Pipettes, Tokyo Police Club and Dimitri From Paris among other designers. Rumor has it Daft Punk, T.I. and Gogol Bordello are also involved. For more information, check Rock The Rabbit