cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
been staring ahead mushbrained and agog for chuffing hours now. lost in some hazy miasmic reverie of jumpcuts, collage and knotted burroughsian disjoint. trying to put this shit together like a thousand piece jigsaw ‘cept all the pieces are in my head and each one’s taken from a different picture. probably with the same [...]
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
360 Ouest is a French agency that specializes in spheric imaging. Discover some of their stunning work here. For online site Rue89 they created a fascinating 360-degree multi-portrait of come-back singer Jacques Dutronc and his inseparable cigar. Click the image to start the show:
Just Politics (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
20 songs for the Obama administration. Related posts: Paperback President (Obama) Is Barack Obama a Racist? Obama Says We’ve Been Waiting Since Teddy Roosevelt Obama Unscripted: Obamakare and the Post Office Flying the “Friendly” Skies with Obama Airlines
I ♥ MUSIQUE (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Woohoo! It was the first YOI of the year last night at 93 Feet East and I played for over two hours. It started off pretty quiet but definitely picked up and the games were in full flow by the time I relinquished the decks (coincidence I'm sure!). Went for the mixed bag approach and I think it worked okay - nothing to mental, just a load of good tunes, quite a few of which are new to me since the last...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
France is often sneered at when it comes to making music. However, at The Big R', it's more a case of FrançaisOk! There's a whole crop of ace modern French bands, from Phoenix to Les Plasticines... however, we're going to...
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
The Youth In Revolt soundtrack. You know, Michael Cera is becoming a pretty trustworthy star. Seems odd to use that word, the S word, for a young weedy guy who’s carved a niche for himself playing young weedy guys, but…
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
Johnny Hallyday is not the only 66-year old French singer who tries to keep going. Lesser known Jacques Dutronc is also back on stage. (As a matter of fact, Dutronc is the only one after Hallyday had to cancel his farewell tour.) Dutronc was as popular in the sixties as Hallyday, and his 50-date sell-out [...]
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
Danou & the Midinettes, you won't find them on MySpace, on iTunes or in your local recordstore. In fact, it's not even a real band. 'The Midinettes' are, as Danou writes me, 'a bunch of sexy, but virtual MIDI-slaves'. This loungey cover of J'aime les Filles, the official anthem of this blog and originally sung by Jacques Dutronc , is the first and only track of D&tM. He even tweaked the lyrics...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Movies When Michael Cera stars in an indie teen comedy, you can expect the film to have a soundtrack that would make any hipster happy. Like ' Juno ' and ' Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ' before it, the music to the upcoming ' Youth in Revolt ' delivers an array of indie bands that haven't quite hit the mainstream yet. What makes the 'Youth in Revolt' soundtrack...
JEANSNOW.NET (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
So yes, as I threatened last week, I did my PLAY two hours set at Cafe Pause this past Friday, and had a great time doing it. I didn’t make a big deal out of it because this was more a test run for me, and I did find a few things I need to [...]
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Listen (to download, right click and Save Target As) Amoeba - John Hegley & The Popticians The Protons and the Neutrons - Darren Hayman Petit Bambino - Dalida Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson Little by Little - Rita Pavone Little by Little - Dusty Springfield Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Tiny Tim Me and My Chauffer Blues - Memphis Minnie Oompa Loompa - Cast of the Original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
Rollernews (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Edit by Matt Luda. Song by Jacques Dutronc. Thanks Dean Coward.
The Dumbing of America (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Can you imagine living in a world where only you believe in the magic of great music? Or playing music with an energy and pop sensibility, only to be told it’s time to grow up and give up childish things? Thank goodness for the French band The Wendy Darlings, who charmed us with [...]
Paperholic (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
You try to be the first to answer this question, rationally. And then you wanna sell, but you can’t, and you hold, and you sense, you even know that you will lose MUCH of your money… But - damn! - you have a psychological problem: YOU CAN’T LET GO. Comfort yourself! It’s a psychological problem in general, and you are by far not alone - once, even French chansonnier Jacques...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Though Sarah Nixey is British, she’s a fille sourire to boot, levitating effortlessly between the realms of innocence and lasciviousness, the subversive and the sublime. With Black Box Recorder – assisted by Luke Haines of Auteurs fame and John Moore, ex-Jesus & Marychain –, she recorded three of the smartest, though heavily neglected pop CDs of the last decade; a new album was...
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