Patti Smith: punk poet queen

Ping! The sweetest email arrives in my inbox from Patti Smith's assistant, Andi. "Patti will do interview at Simon's convenience since he is the traveller." Ping! Another message arrives. "Just call us when you get in. She has put the whole day aside." This is getting better by the email. I'm already picturing my...

guardian.co.uk (37 minutes ago)

The hottest French music of 2013: Daft Punk

Those old enough to remember a time when French rock and pop were routinely sniggered at outside their homeland might raise an eyebrow, but it's really no surprise that the most eagerly anticipated album of 2013 comes from Parisian duo Daft Punk. Random Access Memories has been the subject of fevered speculation...

guardian.co.uk (39 minutes ago)

Field Day, Haim, Metz: this week's new live music

An event with both style and substance, Field Day does an excellent job of combining the credible, the up-and-coming, and the plain old hyped, to create its own idiosyncratic blend. The practicalities of the event are often a little more haphazard: as much as it is by great music, the character of Field Day has been...

guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)

Top 10 vintage and secondhand stores in San Francisco

Nestled among quaint boutiques in the Rockridge neighbourhood of Oakland, Pretty Penny has earned its spot as one of the most adored vintage shops in the area. In addition to offering an array of vintage apparel and accessories for men and women, Pretty Penny also stocks locally designed jewellery, and recently...

guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)

Top 10 live music venues in Seattle

Located just across the street from the picture-perfect Pike Place Market, the Showbox at the Market is a Seattle legend. It opened in 1939 and everyone from Muddy Waters to Pearl Jam has played beneath its stately chandeliers. With a capacity of just over 1,100, the Showbox mostly hosts national and international...

guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)

Seattle soundtrack: by Kinski

Here's a secret. It doesn't always rain in Seattle. Between July and October there's nothing but sun. Lots of people in Seattle hate the sun. We burn easily, break out in hives, draw the blinds … That's why there is music like this, for those who run for the shady spot and can't wait for winter. (Lucy) There used to...

guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)

Modern punk: get the look - in pictures

So you've read our fashion editor's column on punk, but how do you go about getting the look yourself?    

guardian.co.uk (11 hours ago)

Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan Talk 'Rolling Stone' Daft Punk Cover Story

Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan busted out a copy of the new issue of Rolling Stone with Daft Punk on the cover during yesterday's Live with Kelly and Michael proving that no one can escape the dance delirium instigated by the robots' new album Random Access Memories Listen to Daft Punk's...

rollingstone.com (11 hours ago)

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina denied parole

The incarcerated member of the punk collective went on hunger strike earlier this week    

nme.com (11 hours ago)

How to dress: punk

Wearable punk? That's an oxymoron, surely. Like slow skydiving. The point of punk is that it is awkward and uneasy and challenging: everything wearable clothes aren't. Except: says who? I mean, the punk police can't exactly tell us off for breaking the rules, can they? Where's the punk spirit in that? There's...

guardian.co.uk (12 hours ago)

Giorgio Moroder Charmingly Discusses His Mustache and Career in RBMA Lecture

Even if Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, a SPIN Essential, is proving to be a divisive album amongst music fans, only the hardest cynic wouldn't crack a smile while considering the career renaissance that Giorgio Moroder is experiencing as a result...

spin.com (13 hours ago)

Daniel Boulud Opening DBGB Kitchen & Bar in Las Vegas

Hot diggity dog. Reps for the French chef announced this afternoon that later this year he'll open the second branch of his four-year-old, casual East Village restaurant DBGB Kitchen & Bar at the Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas. The bistro derives its name, but not much else, from New York's gone and lamented...

nymag.com (14 hours ago)

The Only Daft Punk 8-Bit Cover Worth Hearing One More Time

Daft Punk's Essential new Random Access Memories keeps setting records, and one of them must be for the number of reworkings popping up out there...

spin.com (14 hours ago)

Cult punk film revives hunt for Ulster arsonist

It was a blaze that wrecked businesses, destroyed 50,000 vinyl records and left a large part of Northern Ireland's punk history in ashes – but the culprit has never been found. Now Terri Hooley, the new-wave impresario who discovered the Undertones, is hoping that publicity around a cult Ulster punk movie will spur...

guardian.co.uk (15 hours ago)

Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Reimagined as 8-Bit Mash-Up

Loving Random Access Memories the latest album from Daft Punk but feel like shaking up your listening experience? Joe Jeremiah has you covered with his 8-bit arrangement of the French duo's new LP featuring a five-minute mashup of all the songs on the album as part of his "A-bit of 8-bit"...

rollingstone.com (17 hours ago)

‘Threads of Feeling’: Mothers’ tokens of love in 1700s Britain

The blockbuster fashion exhibition of summer, the Met’s underwhelming “PUNK: Chaos to Couture,” tries to capture the subversive spirit of youths in 1970s London and their enduring influence on the closets of magazine editors. But another exhibition of British history and influence is making its way to Colonial...

washingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)

Daft Punk Broke All Kinds of Digital Records This Week

If Daft Punk are doing it right, everybody will be streaming them and they'll be breaking records set by corny bands. Also, Mad Men's Ken Cosgrove will be dancing to Random Access Memories' Panda Bear collaboration "Doin' It Right...

spin.com (17 hours ago)

Ken Cosgrove Dances to Daft Punk: A Mash-up

Last week on Mad Men, Ken Cosgrove did a nifty jig, so right on cue, here is your "Ken Cosgrove Dancing to Daft Punk" mash-up. We have one or two issues with the song choice - wouldn't the ragtime breakdown on "Touch" have made more sense? Wouldn't anything besides the ...

vulture.com (18 hours ago)

Our Love Become a Funeral Pyre

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The UK publication The Week called Daft Punk's single "Get Lucky" with Pharrell Williams "the sound of the summer and probably the year." Currently it's at No. 15 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100. It's a good song. I like the group and its new album, "Random Access Memories". But "Get...

thestreet.com (19 hours ago)

Daft Punk Fans Shell Out Big Bucks as Helmet Demand Rises

The magazine reports that the group's latest helmets were made by a Hollywood special-effects shop ‘that worked on the new Spider-Man’”. Although the shop has signed a non-disclosure agreement, fans and even people unfamiliar with the band’s music create their own versions of the helmets and sell them on sites like...

pastemagazine.com (19 hours ago)

Don't underestimate the chemical generation | Scott Oliver

It was the chemical generation's Woodstock: May bank holiday weekend 1992, four years after the Summer of Love and the arrival of ecstasy, upwards of 20,000 revellers alight on Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire's Malvern Hills after national news reports inadvertently turn a minor subcultural event – a diverse,...

guardian.co.uk (20 hours ago)

Jennifer Lopez Feat Pitbull, Suede, Muse: this week's new tracks

PICK OF THE WEEK Reading this on mobile? Click here to view The trio of J-Lo, Pitbull and producer RedOne have become a big-budget N-Dubz. This is their third precision-engineered summer dance monster, complete with randomly generated inspiro-lyrics and Miami-set video. It's 2012's Dance Again… erm, again. Just add...

guardian.co.uk (20 hours ago)

Daft Punk's colours to be carried on Lotus car in Monaco grand prix

Daft Punk's bid for world domination has hit new heights with the news that a racing car bearing their colours will compete in this weekend's Monaco grand prix. A car from the UK-based Lotus team, emblazoned with imagery of the French duo, will take part in the race. The team's Twitter page has been posting a series...

guardian.co.uk (22 hours ago)

Liam Gallagher says he could write Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' 'in an hour'

Beady Eye frontman also wants to see the French duo without their helmets    

nme.com (22 hours ago)

Liam Gallagher slams Daft Punk: 'I could have written Get Lucky in an hour'

independent.co.uk (23 hours ago)

Punk rocks... the new generation of jewellery designers

THE ANDROGEN: HANNAH MARTIN

standard.co.uk (1 day ago)

Enjoyed feat. Femme – Dreamboat Lover (Humour Me): New music

Chances are that in the wake of Daft Punk's success with Get Lucky (the UK's biggest-selling single of 2013 so far), there will probably be quite a few dance songs edging closer to the glitterball in the coming weeks and months. While the work of Enjoyed – aka Hampshire's Peter Evans Pritchard – doesn't quite ape...

guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

Kat Von D’s Hollywood Hills mansion for sale at $2.5M

You just know that a tattoo artist into punk rock and wild ink soon to marry a world-famous DJ named Deadmaus is going to have a cool spot to live. “L.A. Ink” star Kat Von D has just that, and it’s for sale.    

nydailynews.com (1 day ago)

Sebastian Vettel's Monaco Helmet Reveals A Naked Pinup When Heated

It's the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, which means all the teams do something a little special. Lotus has Daft Punk on their side pods. But Sebastian Vettel wins, because his helmet reveals a (mostly) naked woman as it gets warmer. Vettel's helmet is meant as a tribute to Monaco Grands Prix past, with moments...

gizmodo.com (1 day ago)

Black Star Riders: All Hell Breaks Loose – review

On the one hand, it's noble of Scott Gorham to rename his Lynott-less version of Thin Lizzy for the purposes of a recording career. On the other, given that the music they make would fit snugly on to a late-70s Lizzy album – right down to singer Ricky Warwick's inflections and asides – it seems a little...

guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)