When they come to America, all they can hope for is to break even. Everywhere else in the world, they get paid more." That said, Gerrard thinks Daft Punk has worked up the U.S. dance music audience into a frenzy just in time for his ...

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And in his vision of Daft Punk's "Around the World," graph paper improbably gets the funk. "I like the magic in the common," says the 34- year-old director. Growing up in Paris, Gondry developed an affinity for Lego blocks and animation ...

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PLUS: The Smashing Pumpkins break up (finally); label-bashing anthems; the Offspring prank on; coming soon to your living ... P. 149 SHOW US YOUR HITS Singles by Destiny's Child; Madonna; Go-Betweens; Daft Punk; Atari Teenage Riot; ...

It has even less to do with what's going on now, which may be why their new album — not strictly a reunion, since they sat out the '90s without officially breaking up — sounds so refreshing. Like their last couple of '80s albums, ...

... managed to fully break them down, but that's not to say we didn't get on well, because we did. In fact, they made it easy for me, because they are unusually efficient for a rock band — very functional, very good at making decisions, ...

... buzz killers: "Pullin' Me Back" is a gloomy breaking-up-is-hard-to-do anthem crafted by superpro- ducer Jermaine Dupri, ... is a near- perfect confluence of early-' 90s indie guitar noise, Daft Punk- style disco, and French-chick- ...

APRIL Thirty years after they broke up, the Beatles' first official release in China was a remastered version of "Yellow ... DECEMBER: The year ended with reports of the return of French dance act Daft Punk, the rise of Japanese hip-hop ...

"We did not have to change our rules because of Sweden joining the EU or because of the Wannadies." In France, though, things are not yet that straightforward. The two musician/composers who make up Daft Punk — Thomas Bangalter and ...