Daft Punk

Pitchfork is back with its much-anticipated Top 50 Albums of 2013 list. The list has many of the albums you’d expect to see on Pitchfork’s list, though there’s still some surprises…

The Blow @ MHOW, November 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) While not as unexpected as My Bloody Valentine or Mazzy Star, The Blow released their first new full-length in seven years, which NPR’s Bob Boilen just named his #1 album of 2013…

Pitchfork just posted their Top 100 Tracks of 2013. It’s got what some people might call the worst song ever, the song with the most talked-about rap verse of the year, some surprises, and some of the year’s most undeniable songs…

We’ve seen some indie rock fun on Jeopardy! before, and as Consequence of Sound points out, this past Tuesday’s episode had an “Alt” category which included questions about Nine Inch Nails, The White Stripes, Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, and Sigur Ros…

intro Sonny & the Sunsets released Antenna to the Afterworld last spring, a concept album about an alien visiting earth that took the band’s usually folk-leaning sound in new directions. Wh…

Daft Punk just made a video for the Random Access Memories track “Instant Crush” which features Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas on lead vocals…

It’s been a transitional year for A.V. Club. The print version of The Onion ceased publication, and much of AVC’s senior staff jumped ship for Pitchfork’s new film site, The Dissolve…

UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of career” and “the greatest record of the last dec…

Vampire Weekend @ Roseland in April (more by Robert Altman) The Monday after Thanksgiving Weekend is looking to be Official Year-End List Day, as we’ve already got SPIN, and Paste, (plus ones from UK mags  Q and Mojo) and now here’s the one from elder rock statesman Rolling Stone, who have Vampire Weekend‘s Modern Vampires of the City in the top spot, with Kanye West‘s Yeezus at #2…

Phosphorescent at Rough Trade NYC (more by Amanda Hatfield) We just got Q, Mojo and SPIN, and now we get another year-end music list for 2013 from