Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
http://www.mediafire.com/?vfnjwdmyjnn I have no idea what she is singing about and I don’t really care. This is just pure beauty. If you approach this album with an open mind you will be blown away by Hardy’s angelic voice.
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
Photos by François Gragnon, from the days when French singer Françoise Hardy was still a teen-age icon: Miss Hardy is still around — she turned 66 last week.
Loafing Odysseys (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
Happy birthday to my favorite Yé-Yé girl from Paris!
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
When listening to the very gentle and subtle album by Hindi Zahra (born in Morocco, living in Paris) I was thinking of other female singers of Arabian descent who sing (partly) in French. Hindi only uses a few French words (alas) and sings mostly in English or berber, but singers like Algerian Souad Massi (pictured), Moroccan Sapho and Natacha Atlas (born in Bruxelles, but with North-African roots)...
Nothing Elegant (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
:: I have been feeling rotten lately about how behind I am at responding to your individual comments {though I always go visit your blogs!}. I read and love every single one of them, but I just get busy...and forgetful. So, to make up for it, I thought I would make you a fun playlist of some of my favorite cheeky, sexy French pop music -- a great soundtrack for sunny day driving, cooking crepes, or...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
This time around I feel like having some pop songs that could get me in a quite pensive mode. Nothing too loud or too upbeat and energetic. It's much like the pop songs that I think would easily be categorised...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
The man who played Dracula and Saruman is to tell the story of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, through the universal language of metal The man who played Dracula, Saruman and the Man with the Golden Gun is now to portray Charlemagne – through the medium of song. Actor Christopher Lee is to release an album of "symphonic metal", telling the story of his own direct ancestor,...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
The following artists will release new albums in 2010. If you know more (releasedates, titles, etc) please drop in the commments! Jeanne Cherhal - Charade (March, pictured on the right). New song on her Myspace . Alizée , no title or releasedate yet, but supposedly this year. Christophe Mae . Snippet of first single Dingue Dingue Dingue now on Myspace . Album drops March 22. Marina Celeste...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
We gathered the best French albums of the decade a few weeks ago, but left out the duds. Anyway, John Cleese once said that it’s simply wrong to be French, and here’s ten good (and of course utterly impartial) reasons for that, listening-wise: Camille – Le Fil (2005) Qu’est-ce que c’est? Bobby McFerrin without cojones? Edith Piaf on nitrous oxide? In any case, a highly...
other pretty things and duskin (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
francoise hardy, via various sources.
The Telekino Times-Picayune (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Tuca is a personal favourite musical artist of mine - she is utterly unknown but as I plunged into the investigations into my two main music obsessions of the last few years - sixties/seventies pop from France and Brazil - her name kept coming up. Tuca put out a couple of records in Brazil in the sixties but then decamped to France, fleeing the dictatorship that took particular trouble to crack down...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
"The tall tall girl with long long hair and mini mini skirt," is how WWD described Françoise Hardy upon meeting the French folk-pop chanteuse in October 1966.
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
"The tall tall girl with long long hair and mini mini skirt," is how WWD described Françoise Hardy upon meeting the French folk-pop chanteuse in October 1966.
blowupdoll (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
FRANCOISE HARDY & MARC LAVOINE - CHERE AMIE she may be grey, but she's still got it! what a gorgeous way to end the week.
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
"You Know Me" is Robbie Williams second release from his new album Reality Killed the Video Star and to be perfectly honest, I actually like it. It isn't easy to crack a good tune out these days, as most of the contemporaries will tell you.
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