Forgotten Journal

If you’ve heard rumors about the likes of David Bowie, Radiohead and Daft Punk being part of this year’s Coachella Music Festival, don’t buy tickets if you happen to be going because of them. The rumors are just that – nothing but rumors. All three artists have gone on the record that they will not be participating in the events and that they haven’t even been asked to participate. But hey, it’s not too late yet right? The organizers of the fest can still make some things happen. The least they can do is make good on the rumors. Unless they also happen to be affected by the economic crisis and they can’t afford those three acts.

Category : Coachella, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Radiohead

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A Daft Punk live album loses some of the essential experience: the robot costumes, the giant glowing pyramid, the sweaty bodies next to you. And the drugs, definitely the drugs. But the whoops of the human-after-all audience add plenty to the French filter-disco duo’s surprisingly consistent career-spanning show. The set leans too heavy on their proggy recent work, but it’s still basically a celestial rave tribute to Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, cut with classic Eurodisco and Roxy Music. “One More Time” still sounds unbearably pompous, proof that robots should never get sincere. But the knockout punch is the final medley of “Superheroes,” “Human After All” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll,” as Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo shoot a Barry Manilow sample over the crowd like they’re sprinkling holy water. This is the first-rate live album that Electric Light Orchestra should have made but never did.

Category : Concert, Daft Punk, Disco, Live, Music Artist, Music Bands, News, Performance, Selebs, Singers, Song

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