Powers, "Ride or Die" ft. Foster the People, and "Bodies" ft. MUNA; their collaborations with Sofi Tukker ("Best Friend"), Purple Disco Machine ("Fireworks"), and ODESZA ("Love Letter"); and their remixes.

[citation needed] Philadelphia hip hop band Chiddy Bang sampled The Knocks' "Blackout" for their single "Here We Go" (featuring Q-Tip) from their EP The Preview.

[8] In June, the duo took the number one spot on the website HypeMachine with the track "Learn to Fly", which reached 100,000 plays on SoundCloud within a week of its release.

Afterwards, the duo released another single, featuring St. Lucia, titled "Modern Hearts", in the beginning of 2013 and earned the group another number-one placing on HypeMachine and reached the 100,000 plays mark on SoundCloud in four days.

[citation needed] In 2014, The Knocks released a single on Neon Gold Records/Big Beat Records, "Classic", featuring alt-pop duo POWERS.

[13] In November 2015, it was reported that The Knocks' debut album, titled 55, was to be released in January 2016, but was delayed to a later date sometime within the early months of the year.

55 features collaborations with Fetty Wap, Cam'ron, Wyclef Jean, Carly Rae Jepsen, Matthew Koma, Magic Man, Alex Newell, POWERS, Phoebe Ryan, Justin Tranter, Walk the Moon, and X Ambassadors.

Afterwards, the duo went on to uploading a brand new music video for their collaboration with Alex Newell, titled "Collect My Love" and was classed as the second re-release from their So Classic EP.

The day after it was released, Carly Rae Jepsen's management company, "SB Projects", which was run by Scooter Braun, signed the duo to which afterwards they stated that they are "looking forward to this new chapter in our career."

Starting in the turn of the month, the duo launched a video series called "New York Knocks", which features the passers by reactions with songs off of the album 55.

On the day of its release, the duo uploaded every remaining unreleased song from the album onto their digital streaming profiles on SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube.

When approaching April, the album's success grew as the collaborations with Magic Man, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Wyclef Jean all received promotion from various advertisements and television shows across the US.

Later in the month they announced that they were releasing remixes of songs from their debut album as part of a new project which materialized as their fourth EP, titled 55.5.

The group, along with Jack Antonoff and Rami Yacoub, are expected to produce material for Jepsen's upcoming fourth studio album.

Later on in the month, it was reported that Patterson is working with Julia Michaels on her debut major-label extended play, entitled Nervous System.

On 22 June 2017, their affiliate Wyclef Jean announced the official lead single of his eighth studio album, entitled "What Happened to Love", featuring vocals from dance-pop/nu-disco rapper and songwriter LunchMoney Lewis.

As of 6 July 2017, the duo have also worked with Levan Kali[18] and Stuart Price,[19] who previously remixed their 2017 single "Trouble", featuring Absofacto.

[21][22] Later on in the month, the duo posted a digital advertisement in Times Square, New York City on social media as part of the promotion and announcement of their new single, entitled "House Party", in collaboration with renowned production trio Captain Cuts.

The song was eventually revealed to be titled "Ride or Die", featuring vocals from indie pop band Foster the People, and was released on 9 March 2018.

On 29 June 2018, they announced a third single from the album, entitled "Shades", which was co-written alongside Lukas Graham affiliate Morten Pilegaard.

It was also revealed the album was to feature further contributions from the likes of Big Boi, Sofi Tukker, Sir Sly and Alexis Krauss.

[23] During this time, they had begun to work with bassist and record producer Blu DeTiger, who was also supporting the Knocks during their tour, with whom the duo contributed to her first two singles "In My Head" and "Mad Love".

In June 2021, the duo released the single "Bedroom Eyes" in collaboration with Studio Killers which featured a music video starring Casey Frey.

[25] The album features MUNA, Mallrat, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Foster the People, Cold War Kids, Parson James, Dragonette, Cannons, Donna Missal, Yoke Lore, and Powers.

The music video for "Slow Song" with Dragonette was shot in Mexico City and features Ru Paul's Drag Race winner Aquaria.

Ben Ruttner founded HeavyRoc Music in 2007[26] and has since released debut singles for acts including Sofi Tukker, Blu DeTiger, St. Lucia, and more.

Supporting Dragonette's American/Canadian tour in 2012, they also played alongside Diplo, Justice, Boys Noize, and Knife Party on the Holy Ship!.

[32][33] The Knocks have shared the stage with artists such as The 1975, Justin Bieber [Purpose Tour[34]], DJ Shadow, St. Lucia, Bruno Mars, Chromeo, Deadmau5, Skrillex, Big Boi, M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, Tiesto, Martin Solveig, Weezer, Die Antwoord, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Two Door Cinema Club, and Calvin Harris.

[41] The band responded that they did not take the photos, which were in fact a re-post from another user, and furthermore many pictures of Daft Punk without masks freely and openly exist.