8/1 (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
50 Sonic Youth - The Eternal 49 Karen O and The Kids - Where the Wild things are 48 Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 47 Florance and the Machine - Lungs 46 Ebony Bones - Bones of My Bones 45 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 44 Bibio - Ambivalence Avaneu 43 Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts 42 This Immortal Coil - The Dark Age of Love 41 Marissa Nadler - Little Hells 40 Khaled - Liberté...
Sparks In Electrical Jelly (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
Broadcast and the Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age and the tour cd Mother is the Milky Way. They seem to be developing a positively Beefheartian way with titles. Belbury Poly – From an Ancient Star. Loved the synthesiser music for model railways. Stereolab – Chemical Chords. Looks like it might be their last, alas. Trembling Bells – Carbeth. Wild folk,...
AlbumArtExchange Blog (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
In 1984, French graphic designer John-Paul Gothe designed a cover for pop singer Cristina’s Sleep It Off. The album was produced by Don Was and was not a commercial success. The cover for Sleep It Off features a photo collage...
HardCandyMusic.com (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
The undeniably kooky Grace Jones hooks up with French singer/poet Brigitte Fontaine on three tracks off her amazing album Prohibition - the dreamy Il S'En Passe, Just You and Me and the beautifully poetic Soufi . I would have never found this if I hadn't checked out MuuMuse . Love this collaboration very much. The album is a perfect, champagne sipping treat to keep on while we all hibernate through...
MuuMuse (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Ladies and gentlemen…here’s Grace! Brigitte Fontaine is an avant-garde poet/singer from France. Her latest album released in the latter part of 2009, Prohibition, was produced by Ivor Guest, the producer behind Grace Jones‘ latest effort, Hurricane. According to the user who uploaded the song on YouTube, “Brigitte’s poetry in this song emblazons her love on Sufism”...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Pierre Faa , he of Peppermoon AND the man who made those gorgeous Filles Fragiles covers, speaks out his mind. Pictured is Barbara Carlotti (no 1) 1. Barbara Carlotti - Les lys brisés (2006) Sensual voice, elegant melodies... and I love her rhymes a lot. Some of the best writing in french these last years. 2. Christophe - Comme si la Terre penchait (2001) I was not a Christophe fan until I...
Puritan Blister (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
"We can have our fun with the 'torture porn' of Leatherface and Freddy Krueger or the erotic vampires, but this 'vacation' to where the wild things are ultimately helps us return to our lives of quiet repression." --Stephen T. Asma 1. Los Straitjackets- Munsters Theme (Jack Marshall) 2. Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows- The Sleeper (Edgar Allan Poe) 3. Morgan The Bard- Galdralag...
nialler9 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I wasn’t going to post about this at first but it turns out both of these tracks are supreme growers: like a beanstalk in my brain. Turzi are a French five-piece led by Romain Turzi who released an album A in 2007.…
Art Decade (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Brigitte Fontaine: Il se passes des choses Following in the footsteps of Mrs. Fontaine's last visit to AD .
Label Rock (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
LABEL ROCK Radio Show PLAYLISTE DIMANCHE 20 SEPTEMBRE 2009 http://www.archive.org/details/LABELROCKLABELROCKDIMANCHE20SEPTEMBRE2009 (Download/téléchargement) PAPER PLANES “Restless” ( http://www.myspace.com/luckynumberninerecords ) BLITZEN TRAPPER “Black river killer” ( http://www.myspace.com/blitzentrapper ) STARBOARD SILENT SIDE “4 letter word” (...
JamsBio (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
It sounds like a musical trainwreck in the making or the set-up for a joke about the excesses of the avant garde. A French chanteuse and a Kabyle musician meet an Afrocentric American free jazz band on a stage in Paris. Chaos ensues? Au contraire.
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
The only way to make love worthwhile is without caution. Kahimi Karie - Habanera Trapeziste (2003) Roberto Cardoso - Taquito Militar (Milonga Porteña) Guitarra (Dial, 1999) Susana Baca - De los Amores Eco de Sombras (Luaka Bop, 2000) Brigitte Fontaine - Il se passe des choses Brigitte Fontaine… est Folle (Saravah, 1968) Love - A House is not a Motel Forever Changes (1967) Scott Walker...
Art Decade (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Le Brin D'herbe available on: this
local Cut (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Casey Dienel said it, not us: French is just sexier than English. [FRANCOPHONE POP] Last year, Portland singer-songwriter Casey Dienel was battling a serious case of writer’s block. Crafting a follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Phylactery Factory—a lovely album of jazzy compositions and lush arrangements—was proving immensely difficult. So instead of trying to break the curse [...]...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/28/2009
Now and again, usually on a slow news day like to day, we like to share a buncha records with you. Pretty much for no reason and certainly without theme. We've tried passing it off as 'Our Records of the...
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