Ethan Miller, Getty Daft Punk are a musical anomaly, and not just because 20 years into their career we're still not sure what French electronic dance duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo look like beneath their robot masks. Their last proper studio album, Human After All, came out in 2005 to critical and commercial ...

Jason Merritt, Getty A Coldplay concert tends to quickly turn into an audience singalong, essentially crowdsourcing the crooning to create an inspirational, moving moment. The Brit band is now taking that notion to another level with their latest project, a collaboration with Oxfam that pairs an exclusive acoustic version of the group's ...

Mark Metcalfe, Getty When the Flaming Lips played Spinner's free NXNE show in Toronto before 30,000 odd fans last summer, little did we know that it would be the last time the Lips would play their famously celebratory streamers-lasers-stage-props live show in North America. Following a subsequent Australian tour, Wayne Coyne and company ...

Rick Diamond, WireImage "Ladies and gentleman, it's going to be a long fucking night," suggested Dave Grohl at the onset of his marathon Sound City Players SXSW set. "Buckle up." The Foo Fighters frontman was not effin' kidding. Three-and-one-half hours later, Grohl and a host of famous friends finished their apparently last-ever Sound ...

Alamy "My wristbands are getting in the way of my guitar," griped a bemused Wayne Coyne at the Belmont's outdoor stage in front of a few hundred very lucky people. "SXSW problems," bandmate Steven Drozd quipped back. Coyne also snarked that the crowd was "cooler than anyone else who couldn't get into the show" -- a sideways comment on a ...

Getty | Getty Techno icon Richie Hawtin noted at the beginning of his "in conversation" SXSW panel with EDM superstar Joel "Deadmau5" Zimmerman that they were both Canadians, but then they proved it when asked what it was about Canada that had resulted in two of the biggest names in electronic music coming form the country. They both replied, ...

Michael Buckner, Getty "Downloaded," the first film selected by SXSW thanks to its perfect intersection of the festival's three themes of music, film and interactive technology, opens with the squelchy crunch of a dial-up modem, a sonic signifier of just how far we've come since 1998. The film by Alex Winter, formerly of "Bill and Ted" fame, ...