Nile Rodgers and Chic to replace D’Angelo at San Francisco’s Outside Lands this weekend
According to SF Weekly, D'Angelo just announced he will be unable to make his Friday performance at this year's Outside Lands in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The cancellation reportedly stems from a "medical emergency." Luckily, there is a very satisfactory replacement set to perform in lieu of the crooner's 6:05pm timeslot at the Sutro Stage -- Nile Rodgers and his funk-disco band Chic will instead perform on Friday evening, right before Paul McCartney takes the stage at Lands End.
Daft Punk tease ‘Lose Yourself To Dance,’ second collaboration with Pharrell and Nile Rodgers
As the world clamors over the record that has been revealed by Daft Punk, "Get Lucky," another brief teaser has been revealed that includes the same collaborators. Also featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers is "Lose Yourself To Dance." and it has begun the same preview process as its Random Access Memories counterpart.
Daft Punk Collaborators Part 3: Nile Rodgers, ‘Groove is everything’
For the third installment of the Daft Punk collaborator's project, Nile Rodgers talks about his involvement with Daft Punk's latest album. Organic from the start, the collaboration fell together on a whim when both Nile and Thomas and Guy were in New York City. The three hopped into the studio and a short time later they had developed a synergy that he compares to the type of relationships he had with Madonna and Herbie Hancock. Nile also reminisces on his first encounter with the music he would base a career on, Donna Summer's "Love to Love you Baby," a track that set in motion a award-winning career and time spent at the Apollo Theatre. His approach to disco incorporated his jazz fusion background, developing into songs with tight grooves and one-time jazz licks like Chic's breakout hit "Le Freak." Incorporating the same jazz story telling that made him famous, Nile gives us an inside look at the track played by the man himself.