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...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Mordi, he of the brilliant Blowupdoll blog , made his list of poptastic French albums of the past 10 years. Alizée (no.7) is pictured. 1. Calogero - Pomme C. (2007) The emotive vocals of calogeo enfused with the songwriting of zazie make this album a pop/rock french masterpiece. 2. Carla Bruni - Comme Si De Rien N'etait (2008) i was surprised how much i enjoyed this - it blended all my favourite...
Balthazar'ın Günleri (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
1 - Silver Apples 'I Don't Care What the People Say' 2 - Atlas Sound 'Shelia' 3 - Earth & Fire 'Memories' 4 - Captain Sensible 'Happy Talk' 5 - Har Mar Superstar 'Tall Boy' 6 - St. Etienne feat. Etienne Daho 'He's on the Phone' 7 - Nite Jewel - 'What Did He Say' 8 - Mike Bones - 'What I Have Left' 9 - St. Vincent - 'The Party' 10 - Rodriquez - 'Sugar Man' 11 - Tom Tom Club - 'On and On (album version)...
blowupdoll (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
i'm too sure why or how this came about but this collection of songs sung by french actresses appeals very much to me. check out virginie ledoyen cover niagara and listen as valerie lemercier manages to make one of all time fave songs (par amour, par pitie) still sound heartbreaking. listen to marianne sing and chat at the bbc in 65 and 66. her voice is amazingly pure, innocent and very very english!...
Serge the Concierge (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Not sure that his name registers on the radar of many people outside France, Miossec (French site) is a talented...
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
Many thanks to Blimpy for inviting me on board. Like many people, i had difficulty knowing where to stop recommending stuff this week - there are so many different possibilities. I had no such problem deciding where to start though. It's a challenge to convey even a fraction of my love for Mylene Farmer without sounding like a lunatic . She is, for me, the perfect pop star - a combination of the immediate...
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
If times are getting tough, why not go back to the happier - and hippier - era of the 60s with Nottingham combo The Soundcarriers?
Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
I may have mentioned it before, but I do like a good cover version. I also like a bad one. Most of all, I like an unlikely cover version and delving into the recesses of Spotify I have found some crackers - combinations that you could hardly make up. Some of my favourite unlikely combinations [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
Album review: This increasingly worldly indie object of desire has aged gutsily rather than gracefully over the years – and this latest album deals with further tales of world-weariness with inimitable flair.
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Marianne Faithfull Easy Come, Easy Go •••• Naive From Soho street corner to the Salzburg Festival, with more than 20 albums behind her and acting roles encompassing Ophelia and the Devil, Empress Maria Theresa and, most recently, an elderly masturbatrix, Marianne Faithfull’s progression from Andrew Loog Oldham-tailored ready-made muse to respected elder stateswoman of rock...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
JOHNNY DEPP’s pop star girlfriend VANESSA PARADIS scooped double honours at the Victoires De La Musique in her native France on Saturday (08Mar08). Paradis’ Divinidylle was named Best Pop Album, while the singer also took home the title of Best French Female Artist at the awards ceremony - the French equivalent of the U.K.’s Brit Awards. And [...]
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
Tombés pour Daho is a tribute to one of France's best-known and very versatile singers, Etienne Daho . Among artists who honour Daho are Benjamin Biolay, Sebastien Tellier, Elli Medeiros and Doriand. And our heroine Coralie Clement . She re-did Vis à Vis from the Réévolution-cd (that also features Daho's duet with Charlotte Gainsbourg, alas nobody chose to cover that),...
Archaeoastronomy (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Saint Etienne and Étienne Daho combined to produce an underrated EP Résérection. It had two singles from it Accident/He’s on the Phone in English, a re-working of Étienne Daho’s Week-end À Rome and Jungle Pulse above, a reworking of Filthy by Saint Etienne. My translation would be very poor. It's too fast for me in [...]
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