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Strange Hands Offers Dead Flowers For Sensitive Burnouts
Name: Strange Hands
Genre: Psych Punk
When they started: 2008
Most like: Black Lips, Acid Baby Jesus
The Sound: Like flower punk's not dead
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Parisian Songstress Jain and Her Wanderlusting Indie-Pop
Twenty-year-old Parisian songstress Jain had a pretty big year. She gained some traction for her acoustic pair of YouTube videos, she opened for folk artist Leon Russell...
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Artist of the Week: Paris’ New Indie-Pop Darling, Jain
The readers have spoken and they want more Jain! The 20-year-old brand new French singer/songwriter with a penchant for indie-pop crushed the polls and has been voted...
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Jain Brings French Cool To Acoustic Pop
Name: Jain
Genre: Acoustic Pop
When She Started: 2011
Most Like: Corinne Bailey Rae, Jack Johnson, Zaz
The Sound: If Jason Mraz was killed and reborn as an...
review
Various Artists — Kitsuné America
Parisian enterprise Kitsuné has carved out a unique spot on the international music map. Both a fashion (check out these Keds) and record label, Kitsuné has become known...
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The Dø Wrote The Book on Baroque Pop
The book is always better than the movie, but somehow that doesn't stop people from making terrible movies based on books. Maybe people should make more music based on...
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M83 New EP ‘Reunion’ Out in May
What do you do after dropping one of the biggest records of 2011? For M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez and friends, you release a single EP full of remixes by some of the most...
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Catching Up With Pony Pony Run Run
Two brothers, an art school pal, and a tour bus. What may sound like a pitch for a quirky sitcom is none other than Pony Pony Run Run, an indie electro trio and recent...
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Artist of the Week: French Indie-Electrophiles, Pony Pony Run Run
In the words of some wise men, "You Need Pony Pony Run Run." And apparently, they weren't kidding. The Nantes-based trio Pony Pony Run Run broke away from the pack to...
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The Dø — “Gonna Be Sick”
All aboard! The Dø, an Art pop Finnish/French duo, sets sail in “Gonna Be Sick” from last year’s Both Ways Open Jaws. The “heartbroken heroine” bravely takes on a...
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Pony Pony Run Run Say Sorry
What have these handsome French devils done that they're constantly apologizing? The trio from Nantes bubbled up in 2009 with the rueful, infectious dance pop of "Hey...
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Tal — “Le Sens De La Vie”
Tal from France jam packs all your favorite movie tropes in the video for “Le Sens De La Vie” or “the meaning of life,” off her debut album. Set to her strong and...
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Unison — S/T
You had to know French witch house would be the coolest witch house. The debut album from French dark electronic duo Unison is cool in the sense of having a smooth pop...
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Unison: French Duo Makes Beautiful Death-gaze Together
Though they're compared to American dark electronicists Salem and have partnered with Mexico's tenebrous Ritualz, describing Unison as French witch house is too simple....
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Birkii — “Holy War”
French synthpop princess Birkii enlists in a new age rhythm nation with “Holy War.” The singer suits up with syncopated drums, electro keyboard scales and lots of...
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Soko — “First Love Never Die”
Admit it. Your first true love is a hard one to shake. Folky French singer SoKo’s “First Love Never Die” from her debut I Thought I Was An Alien is a testament to the...
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The World Wants Zaz
Words by Siddhartha Mitter
“Je veux.” I want. In this song, which became a huge summer hit in France in 2010, Zaz shares a wishlist that’s anything but materialistic....
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France’s Revolver To Drop New Album March 12
We've been following Parisian chamber pop group Revolver devotedly the past couple years, and we're giddy about the impending drop of their new album, Let Go on March...
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To Hellfest and Back: Patches from Metal’s Underworld
Melchior Tersen has been to Hell and back more times than the average photographer, Hellfest that is. For the past two years, Tersen has gone to the Val de Moine sports...
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Anachromie by KELLS
"Female-fronted metal" isn't just a metal band with a frontwoman -- there are plenty of those -- it's its own sort of genre. The term tends to connote clean, even...