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Daft Punk

Human Touch

PUBLISHED May 21, 2013

"We feel like scientists, sometimes, doing research in a lab," muses Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter. "The first time you do your research, it...

Born Ruffians

Are Reborn

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2013

"I think that if the Flaming Lips actually sat down and said, 'Let's write songs like One Direction and do just that, but we'll sing them a...

KEN Mode

Lightning Rod

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2013

"It builds character, right?" There is a grin in drummer Shane Matthewson's voice as he teases his brother Jesse, guitarist and vocalist fo...

A$AP Rocky

Baptized in the Gutter

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

2 Chainz is miffed. Backstage at Drake's OVO Fest, Canada's biggest annual hip-hop concert, Atlanta's "it" rapper has just discovered he w...

Kendrick Lamar

Inside the Year's Best Album

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2012

Kendrick Lamar celebrated his 24th birthday performing a concert in Toronto. At the end of the show on a summer night in 2011 at the Sound...

Tame Impala

Psych Out

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2012

"Regardless of what score they give the album, the only thing I care about is that they understand what I'm doing. If critics say that it's...

The Quiet Revolution of Flying Lotus

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

"First time I met him, it was like Jay meets Silent Bob," exclaims bass warrior Thundercat about his musical partner in crime and fellow sp...

Dirty Projectors

New Beginnings

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2012

"Before, a lot of Dirty Projectors albums were organized around a central idea," Dave Longstreth explains. "[Then] I just got kind of unhea...