Despite not being on the bill to play this year’s Coachella music festival, Daft Punk chose the event to air new footage which reveals further details surrounding their long awaited fourth album. The short clip shows the robot-headed dance group playing new song ‘Get Lucky’ accompanied by Nile Rodgers on guitar and Pharrell Williams providing vocals. The song features the lyrics, “She's up all night 'til the sun / I'm up all night to get some / She's up all night for good fun / I'm up all night to get lucky.”

The film also reveals a number of other high profile names who will feature on ‘Random Access Memories’ including Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Todd Edwards, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder and Paul Williams.

This preview is the latest instalment in the mysterious promotional campaign for Daft Punk’s first release in eight years. In February the band announced via Facebook that they had signed with Columbia Records. A month later posters featuring Daft Punk’s new logo appeared in major cities across the globe. Then in March short television adverts promoting ‘Random Access Memories’ were premiered on US television during ‘Saturday Night Live.’

Ahead of the album’s release in May it is believed that the record will be launched and played in full at the Wee Waa Show, an annual event that takes place in New South Wales, Australia.

You can watch Daft Punk’s latest album trailer below:

]]> Pressparty http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/justintimberlake/view/71677/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:07:20 +0100 http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/justintimberlake/view/71677/ Justin Timberlake has maintained his position at No.1 on the UK albums chart.

His comeback record 'The 20/20 Experience' topped last week's chart upon release and he stayed there on Sunday (March 31).

His nearest competitor Depeche Mode meanwhile landed at No.2 on the chart with their new record 'Delta Machine'.

David Bowie's 'The Next Day' slipped to No.3 and is followed by Emeli Sandé's 'Our Version of Events' and Bruno Mars' 'Unorthodox Jukebox'.

The Strokes meanwhile saw their latest release 'Comedown Machine' enter at No.10.

The singer's new offering has quickly become the fastest selling of the year, after shifting an incredible 106,000 copies in its first week of release, and is still at the top spot despite tough competition from Depeche Mode's 'Delta Machine' at No.2.

Elsewhere in the albums chart, Strokes have debuted at 5 with 'Comedown Machine', P!nk's 'The Truth About Love' is a non-mover at 7, and OneRepublic's new record called 'Native' has made an appearance at 27. One Direction's 'Up All Night' has dropped 3 positions to No.33, Taylor Swift's 'Red' is up 1 to No.22, and Bastille's 'Bad Blood' has climbed to No.4.

Other new entries this week come from Eric Clapton with 'Old Sock' at No.10, Simple Minds with 'Celebrate Greatest Hits' at 15, and Iron Maiden with 'Maiden England '88'.

Watch Timberlake's music video for 'Mirrors' below:

'Their sound may have many fathers, but their songs are all their own...catch this exciting band now before they get too big.' - Metro

‘Black Manila are a band who have clearly decided that rock 'n' roll - at its key, most core level - is a degenerate art form, played by outcasts. Something that shouldn't be downloaded but rolled up, smoked, consumed and soaked in through every pore’ - Clash

‘Sounds something like The Strokes dipped in Jack White’ - The 405

Black Manila are three young punks from South London who have spent their formative years honing their love of music by diving into the fun and free world of garage rock & roll. As well as an extremely limited edition sold out 10” released through the Jaguar Shoes Collective, the band have truly captured the respect and attention of the capital's alt-rock underground with their accomplished yet raucous live shows.

Fusing together sunny west coast garage riffs with a distinctly British charm and swagger, Black Manila create one of the few bridges between London and the flourishing garage scene across Europe and America.

In 2013 Black Manila will tour the UK and Europe to support the release of their debut 7” single ‘Shake That Thing’. The single was recorded and produced at Toe Rag Studios by Liam Watson, famed for co-producing the Grammy award winning album 'Elephant' by The White Stripes.

Currently writing their debut album, Black Manila look all set to take 2103 by the horns.

Featuring The Strokes' Julian Casablancas, the commercial aims to embody the 'music-themed' scent's "audacious" nature and "electrifying quiver".

The new Azzaro scent has been called 'Decibel'. It features top notes of aldehydes and green tangerine. The darker notes involve licorice and violet and the base notes feature vetiver, tonka bean and vanilla. The fragance bottle is shaped like a traditional microphone complete with a silver mesh and piano black body.

Other musicians who have lent their image to fragrance campaigns include Jared Leto and Justin Timberlake. 

Watch the full commercial for Azzaro's 'Decibel' fragrance below:

The New York rockers, who co-headlined the Reading and Leeds Festivals with Pulp over the weekend (August 27 and 28), admitted their relationship was strained during the making of their latest album, 'Angles'.

Fraiture said although the five-piece are now in a "good place", he admitted that not everyone in the band is contributing equally to new material yet.

He said in an interview with the Daily Star: "Some people are bringing in stuff, some are not. There aren't so many finished songs but we have many parts. We try putting them together like puzzles and making them stick.

He added that the sessions will only get into gear when everyone has the time to be in the studio together, adding:

"What we do on our own is not the same as what we do together. We're in a good place as a band right now. I feel like I'm at therapy in a marriage."

Frontman Julian Casablancas admitted that he stalled sessions for the new album earlier this year, which will be the band's fifth. He hinted at tensions with guitarist Nick Valensi, who apparently wanted to record a solo album of songs put together by The Strokes.

Watch The Strokes perform 'You Only Live Once' live at Reading Festival 2011:

Late last night, April 25, bassist Nikolai Fraiture tweeted the exciting news to his followers:

"Super excited to go in to the studio today and work on some new ideas! I'll keep you posted..."

"For The Strokes, of course!"

The band will return to the UK this summer to perform at Reading and Leeds Festivals and you can watch their newly released video for 'Call Me Back' here:

As well as performing their latest single, ‘Under Cover of Darkness,’ the band, introduced by host Miley Cyrus, played a new track titled ‘Life Is Simple In The Moonlight.’

‘Angles’ is released on March 21st.

Check out The Strokes playing ‘Life Is Simple In The Moonlight’ on SNL here:

Visually, it's very elaborate with the band in elegant suits and in perhaps even more opulent surroundings as they perform the track.

The band will release this single as a 7" limited edition vinyl on April 16 and their new album, 'Angles', is out on March 21. Front man Julian Casablancas is in this week's issue of the NME giving a track-by-track introduction to The Strokes' new record. 

Watch the full video here:

The first show to be announced will take place at New York City's iconic venue, Madison Square Garden, on April 1, which is around 2 weeks after their new album 'Angles' will be made available. Tickets for this gig will be on sale from February 25. 

In addition to the Manhattan show, the band will also perform at the following venues:

• March 23 - Chelsea - The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV
• July 16 - Super Bock, Super Rock in Lisbon, Portugal
• July 14 to 17 - Benicassim Festival in Spain
• August 13 - Summer Sonic in Tokyo, Japan
• August 14 - Summer Sonic in Osaka, Japan

The band also feature in the latest edition of NME and explain that there was a certain level of resentment amongst the members during the recording of their new album 'Angles':

"When [The Strokes] is described more negatively, it seems like I come in going, 'This is how it is, and if you don't like it, back off.' But it's never like that. I just want to have a creative, constructive, fun conversation. And I just think that, for whatever reason, we never pulled that off and there was resentment."

You can listen to The Strokes' latest single below:

The picture belongs to a Belgian artist named Guy Pouppez, who died in 1993, and according to the NME the band were shown his work by their graphic designer. 

A spokesperson for The Strokes explained:

"His work is basically unknown, as far as we [the band] know,"  

"He was not a famous painter. The graphic designer who designed our album art found it through an art dealer she knows in France."

"We tracked down his only heir, his daughter, and she gave us the rights to use it so long as we wrote in the liner notes: 'Cover painting by Guy Pouppez courtesy of his daughter'."

The album will be released on March 21 and you can listen to its first single, 'Under Cover of Darkness', here:

'Under Cover of Darkness' is the first single from the band for a considerable period of time and guitarist Albert Hammond explained their new sound to Radio 1's Zane Lowe in response to being asked if The Strokes has entered a new era:

"I would be completely shocked if it wasn't."

"I see us completely making music together. I see us doing a world tour in balance with a new record.

"We're going to tour."

Hammond also addressed the band's five year musical hiatus and said that the break made them appreciate what they have even more now:

"All of that, if anything, gave you perspective on what I find so beautiful about The Strokes.

"It really is something bigger than one person - a combination of things which couldn't happen without us.

"I would say even more so. I was playing the new album to a friend this morning and they said, 'It makes me want to dance'."

Listen to the full track below:

'Under Cover of Darkness' will be available from the rockers' home page on Wednesday, February 9 for no more than 48 hours so that fans can get a first and free listen to their new sound. The track will also debut on radio waves tomorrow, but won't be on iTunes to purchase until February 15. 

The band's new album, 'Angles', will be released on March 21 via Rough Trade Records in the UK and then on March 22 through RCA records in the U.S. You can check out a very short clip of the new single below: