--- title: Mysterious Website Hints at a Daft Punk World Tour description: Rumors that Daft Punk will be touring in 2017 are going strong thanks to a mysterious new website titled Alive 2017. canonical: https://time.com/4519581/daft-punk-world-tour-2017-website/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-05T17:06:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:20.990Z og:title: Mysterious New Website Surfaces Fueling Daft Punk Tour Rumors og:description: Here's what you need to know og:url: https://time.com/4519581/daft-punk-world-tour-2017-website/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1b9fae1db7eb4eb/6988a8c2fb4eac57d188f5dd/daft-punk-world-tour-2017-website.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 56th GRAMMY Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mysterious New Website Surfaces Fueling Daft Punk Tour Rumors twitter:description: Here's what you need to know twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1b9fae1db7eb4eb/6988a8c2fb4eac57d188f5dd/daft-punk-world-tour-2017-website.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mysterious New Website Surfaces Fueling Daft Punk Tour Rumors > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Kevin Mazur—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 5, 2016 5:06 PM UTC The appearance of a mysterious new website has reignited rumors that a [Daft Punk world tour](http://time.com/4011038/daft-punk-star-wars-mash-up/) might be happening in 2017. Buzz about a purported tour began last month on [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/comments/546022/lollapalooza%5Fhas%5Fa%5Fdaft%5Fpunk%5Fpage%5Fon%5Ftheir%5Fwebsite/), when a user discovered a page on the Lollapalooza website that was dedicated to Daft Punk, leading some fans to speculate that the French electronic music duo would be headlining the festival. Now with the emergence of a website titled “ALIVE 2017” (which simply features the text “ALIVE” on a black background,) [Daft Punk fans and Reddit users](https://www.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/comments/54sjz0/) are speculating that a world tour is in the works. Further fanning the flames of this theory is the fact that Daft Punk’s past two tours were in 1997 and 2007 and titled “Alive 1997” and “Alive 2007,” respectively — which has many fans hoping that the pair will continue their tradition of touring every decade. 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