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French dance music superstars Daft Punk announce split AFP Photo/AP It was done in the band's typically enigmatic fashion. One of the era’s defining dancefloor acts hung up their helmets on Monday, as electronic music stars Daft Punk announced their retirement in typically enigmatic fashion with a video showing one of them exploding in a desert. The French duo released an eight-minute clip titled Epilogue, using footage from their cult 2006 film Electroma in which one of the robots sets other to self-destruct mode. After the explosion, a cutaway reads “1993-2021” with two r...

The French electro music duo Daft Punk have announced their retirement after 28 years. The French duo released an eight-minute clip titled

The Next Generation Of Music Critics Is Here – And They’ve Found A Home On TikTok "I think my viewers value my opinions because they feel like they know me...a faceless music reviewer can be tough for people to get behind these days." We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Last September, Will Koart uploaded a 30-second video to his TikTok page, @willtalksmusic. The video was fairly standard for Koart — short, simple, and earnest, just a touch of snark. In it, he quickly ran through some of the biggest G...

Rethinking the importance of album reviews Album reviews don’t exactly serve the same purpose anymore and that’s okay. The art of reviewing an album is criminally underrated. For every half-decent score given out to musical projects by outlets like Pitchfork and The Needle Drop, there’s a fountain of thoughts behind the arbitrary number meant to show why it was chosen. A 6.8 might look ugly as a number, but the review itself could very well be flattering and critical where it has to be. Let’s not forget a 6.8 is only mere decimals away from a seven, which most of us would consider...

There’s a scene in Cameron Crowe’s 2000 coming-of-age film Almost Famous that acutely sums up the complicated morality of life as a rock journalist. It’s 1973 and the bushy-tailed protagonist and aspiring writer, William, is about to embark on a weeks-long tour to cover a rock band he loves for Rolling Stone. It’s his dream come true. He eagerly calls his mentor, a fictionalised version of the real-life editor of Creem magazine, Lester Bangs, to tell him the good news and Bangs promptly pours cold water on his enthusiasm. “You cannot make friends with the rock stars,” Bangs tel...