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It was Chic guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers’ January blog announcement of his Daft Punk collaboration that kicked off a public frenzy that made Random Access Memories the most talked-about album of 2013.

That Homework gatefold image also features a poster for a 1976 KISS concert at New Jersey’s Roosevelt Stadium. This nod, though small, serves as a clue to what Daft Punk could become – a precursor to their evolution from fresh-faced Frenchmen spinning records in a Wisconsin field in 1996 to the mysterious, helmeted robots who are likely to own the year in terms of musical conversation. It’s about being everywhere without being seen.

Daft Punk have quite successfully captured the imagination of not just the music world but the pop culture public at large, and done so in a way that would’ve surely impressed the late Bill Aucoin, legendary manager of KISS during their ‘70s heyday, who’s credited with elevating the band’s commercial status with inventive and relentless marketing moves. Where KISS utilized a bombastic stage show and their larger-than-life characters to launch everything from made-for-TV movies to comic books (which boasted band members’ blood in the ink), Daft Punk have carved their own similar but still unique path to cultural ubiquity.

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@KendallJenner oh shh. There are kids on earth abandoned&homeless who forcibly drink contaminated water because clean water isn't accessible

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Frances Bean Cobain (@alka_seltzer666) May 22, 2013

She then added, “Oh ya, not to mention, CANCER, famine, poverty, draught, disease, natural disasters, Death. F***, Humans are so self involved.”

But she didn’t stop there and added some more insults to Jenner.

I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot

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Frances Bean Cobain (@alka_seltzer666) May 22, 2013

Jenner has since taken down her Tweet. She recently spoke with MTV about happier news, her sister Kim’s impending motherhood and her future as an aunt.

“I mean we’re all pretty excited. It still hasn’t hit me yet, so I don’t know,” she said.

The Kardashians will be celebrating their new family and cast member on June 2 for Kim Kardashian’s baby shower. According to MTV News, the invites have been sent and include a music box which played “a lullaby version of boyfriend Kanye West‘s 2005 Late Registration cut, ‘Hey Mama.’” A-list singers Beyoncé and Fergie have been invited.

The new season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians also premieres later that night on E!

On Throwback Thursday, we talked about TGI Fridays, and how they have duped their customers by filling premium-brand liquor bottles with well-brand alcohol, Paris Hilton, and how in the near future we can be sure to hear her new music, thanks to Cash Money Records… and then, it was Mahoney’s turn to be in the hot seat!

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Since then, Velasquez has fought hard in order to get it back, and is set to defend it again this Saturday night at UFC 160 in Las Vegas.

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Pepper have been on a hiatus of new material for five years. Making for some serious hysteria from fans to chomp on their latest effort that will be Self-Titled, and dropping on July 16th. They also will be rolling into town at the Hard Rock on June 8th.

Tonight’s challengers built their foundation from Aaron Bruno’s success with previous acts like Under The Influence of Giants, Hometown Hero and Insurgence. When Bruno and the now line-up of Awolnation released their debut 15 track effort ‘Megalithic Symphony‘ in 2011, the alternative music world rejoiced! Now recording their follow-up, the band looks to push their musical boundaries and take things in new strange directions!

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With help from a keyboard and a drum machine, Charli made the song all her own giving it the same synth-pop feel of her recently released full-length debut, True Romance. She slowed things down and took a darker approach to the love song, making lines like “But we are two worlds apart/Can’t reach to your heart” sound much more desperate and heartbroken than BSB ever did.

But the writer of Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” who described herself to Radio.com as “Wednesday Addams meets Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice meets Baby Spice,” kept things fun. She whispered lines of the chorus, handled the five-part harmony all on her own, and even threw in a little giggle before launching into Nick Carter’s epic solo. She then ended her rendition with a very sincere shout-out, “Big up to the Backstreet Boys.”

She did warn us in “I Love It” that she’s a “’90s b****.” Check out Charli’s version of “I Want It That Way” below.

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Vampire Weekend’s latest is their second No. 1, following 2010′s Contra. The album’s sales numbers are the band’s career best, slightly topping Contra‘s 124,000 in January 2010.

According to Billboard, the album is the 19th independently-distributed record to reach No. 1 on the chart since SoundScan data was first recorded in 1991, and the first such album in 2013. The album was released on XL Recordings and distributed by Warner Music’s Alternative Distribution Alliance. The last indie to top the charts was Jason Aldean’s Night Train last fall.

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The band’s success follows an acclaimed appearance on Saturday Night Live, on which the four-piece performed “Unbelievers” and “Diane Young,” the album’s lead single, which has peaked so far at No. 17 on the Alternative Songs chart, the band’s best-ever chart showing. They’ve been on a promo tear as of late, particularly in the commercial radio world, where the band is slowly making in-roads (they played KROQ’s Weenie Roast last weekend, for one thing).

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On Wednesday, we talked about a burglar who, during a police chase, stopped to get a beer, Barbara Walters’ daughter, and how she was arrested for DUI, and then we took calls, asking you to fill in the blank: “I know a chick is crazy if she does ___________ on her Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page…”

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Arguably, Lillywhite is best known for his work with U2, spanning from their albums Boy, October, War and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, to songs on the infamous Joshua Tree and more.

Lillywhite worked with what he describes as “the bad mullet band” U2 when they were on the verge of blowing up and swiftly rose to success in a time when music made unfathomable amounts of money.

How did Lillywhite manage to work with such a pivotal band at an early point in his career? Though he’s been working in the “vacuum” of the studio since age 17, the producer joked with KROQ’s Kevin & Bean in an interview Tuesday (May 21) that he has to “thank Ian Curtis [of Joy Division] for dying.”

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The emotional rant, which has since been deleted, even went so far as to ask fans if SOAD should consider making an album with a different singer. The following is Odadjian’s unedited message in its entirety (via Loudwire):

“ok….. Ill come clean.. Its not us (meaning Daron,John Or Shavo!! Its Sej, who doesn’ want to do a new album!!!! so please stop harassing us about it!!! We are just waiting for SERJ! Now He might hate me for exposing the truth but i Had too.. Sorry folks!!! we’re trying to get a new album out, its just not passing Serj’s RULES! . Kinda funny, since we started the band and now he’s holding us back!! I think we should should release another album again??? As for me.. I’m ready to release one with someone who wants to be the singer of SYSTEM. not soeome we have to beg to be a part of SYSTEM!! So with that in mind, what do you guys w should do? Just remember, Hes been holding us back for 7 years so far.. wanna wait another $-5 years? or shall we release a record without Serj? u tell us?????

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