October 25, 2007

Daft Punk Promotes Alive via Widget

It comes as no surprise that robot-loving, electronic act Daft Punk has gone all web 2.0 on us with the promotion of Alive, the duo's upcoming live disc. An embeddable widget allows visitors to preview new tracks, buy the single, read Daft Punk’s biography, read the newsletter and see photos of the band.  It's all pretty geek-chic for the typically low-tech world of album promotion, but coming from two guys that once played their robot alter-egos in Interstella 5555 , it feels about right.  Check it out after the jump.

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October 12, 2007

Oasis Goes Virtual with New Trailer

This makes two desperate grabs for relevance in one week in the Oasis camp: The trailer for the band's upcoming documentary, "Lord Don't Slow Me Down," has been made available in the virtual world of Second Life.  If avatars in there can yawn, they probably did.    (via NME)

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