{"id":803685,"date":"2020-01-31T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946006"},"modified":"2020-01-31T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:09:40","slug":"duck-sauce-dip-back-into-disco-joy-with-smiley-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/duck-sauce-dip-back-into-disco-joy-with-smiley-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck Sauce Dip Back Into Disco Joy With \u2018Smiley Face\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duck Sauce<\/a> \u2014 the disco duo of A-Trak<\/a> and Armand Van Helden<\/a> \u2014 have returned with \u201cSmiley Face,\u201d their first song in six years.<\/p>\n

The track is a burst of pure dance floor joy, with euphoric vocal samples gliding across a quick-stepping groove. Over the course of the song, Duck Sauce repeatedly build and drop the beat, pushing \u201cSmiley Face\u201d into bigger and bigger moments of delirium each time.<\/p>\n

Duck Sauce debuted in 2009 and scored a viral hit the following year with \u201cBarbra Streisand,\u201d which boasted a cameo-filled video<\/a> featuring Kanye West, Pharrell, Diplo, Questlove, Ezra Koenig, Chromeo, DJ Premier, Andr\u00e9 3000 and more. The duo released a pair of EPs, Greatest Hits<\/i> in 2010 and Duck Droppings <\/i>in 2014, plus the 2013 mixtape, Duck Tape<\/i>. Their first, and so far only, album, Quack <\/i><\/a>arrived in 2014.<\/p>\n

Duck Sauce teased their return earlier this year when they were tapped to play Coachella<\/a>, which will take place April 10th through 12th and April 17th through 19th. As of now, however, that\u2019s the duo\u2019s only North American concert scheduled for 2020.<\/p>\n

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Duck Sauce \u2014 the disco duo of A-Trak and Armand Van Helden \u2014 have returned with \u201cSmiley Face,\u201d their first song in six years. The track is a burst of pure dance floor joy, with euphoric vocal samples gliding across a quick-stepping groove. Over the course of the song, Duck Sauce repeatedly build and drop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 02:46:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}