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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 6/14/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Why Daft Punk Have to Keep the Masks On

Are we not men?

Why Daft Punk Have to Keep the Masks on

It's too late now, and it's probably been too late for the last 10 years. Daft Punk, the French electronic duo who has singlehandedly dominated the press for the last month, will be wearing their robot suits for the rest of their lives. There will never be a reveal, a coming out, or a change of tone ... More >>

Top 12"s of '12: Last Looks, People

Welcome to 2013. Welcome to the future. 2013 is not like other years. It's different. It's a whole new world. A world in which Grammy Nominee and general music visionary Al Walser is not only still alive, but will lead us all to redefine our very idea of art (seriously, think about it). A world i ... More >>

Q&A: Industrial Strength's Lenny Dee On Distorting Electronic Instruments, Sampling Pantera, And "Draft Ponk"

Born Leonard Didesiderio in 1968, Lenny Dee got his start in the music business as a teenager, working in the studio with Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker while making his own dance 12-inches, most famously in tandem with Frankie Bones. The two of them were instrumental in bringing British rave to Broo ... More >>

DJ Mehdi, R.I.P.

​ Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, better known as the French electro artist and Ed Banger Collective member DJ Mehdi, passed away at 34, according to an announcement on Twitter by his friend DJ Cut Killer.

DAFT PUNK’D

Go ahead—imagine it’s really them

The Decapitator Strikes Again, Beheading Daft Punk in Shepard Fairey's DJ Hero Ad

All photos courtesy of the Decapitator's Flickr streamSpring Street on November 6, 2009 In case you haven't been following along, the street-artist known as the Decapitator has been in New York recently. And in addition to hiding headless Shakiras in the Union Square Barnes & Noble (one was found a ... More >>

Live: Alan Braxe at Studio B

Alan Braxe Studio B Saturday, March 7 During my college years my fellow scholars invented something called the "Time-Change Riot." On the night of the spring-forward daylight-saving shift, and thus apparently robbed of a whole hour of bar time, the spurned drinkers, ejected into the streets, el ... More >>

The Year's Best Music Videos

Music Videos Get Small

Miami of the North

Debate the WMC's relevance if you like, but it still inadvertently drags plenty of DJs to town

Save Zee Robots

The Unbands

Underground Disco?

Low-pass filters from the land of frogs and Ninja Turtles

The New Euro