1979 was a magical year when disco had sex with punk music and the resulting child was named New Wave. And as everyone knows when the French do it, it's way sexier.

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Paris based trio Anoraak have released a new video for their as yet unreleased song "Made Up" from their upcoming as yet still unnamed debut album, which I think perfectly captures that feeling of going into the city late at night to see a live show. They're actually coming to Seattle soon, and I kinda hope I make it out to see them.

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One of my favorite new discoveries lately is Noir Cœur, a surf rock/synth pop duo from France who make dreamy, fuzzed-out music for the beach. You can't help but hear the waves crashing in your head when you listen to these songs, so it makes sense that David Dean Burkhart spliced together some footage of windsurfing for the "Wet Souls" video, ( Read more... )

Sébastien Tellier teaches a masters class on how one rocks out a live TV appearance when he appeared here on Grand Journal. Is this not the most badass live performance you've ever seen someone do on broadcast television? God, I wish more artists rocked this hard. While there is no nudity in this performance like there was in that crazy music ( Read more... )

From the song's Soundcloud page:

""Le Goudron" is a surrealist revolutionary song originally recorded in 1969 by Brigitte Fontaine with The Art Ensemble of Chicago; YACHT has reinvented its naive-apocalyptic candor for a neon-soaked dance floor, our preferred autonomous zone."

Translation: If you want to hear a song that sounds like Yelle doing ( Read more... )

Welcome to C'est Non Un Blog After Dark. Sébastien Tellier's latest single off of his new album 'My God Is Blue' is a straight up disco ode to hedonism and depravity. Like a demented Satanist pied piper he works a crowd into an orgy of sex and violence. I won't lie to you, it's a crazy fucking video, but new Sébastien Tellier music is always ( Read more... )

"Empire" is some pretty epic French dream pop with an African vibe to it. Other than that, I don't really know much about this French duo. Luckily this song is memorable enough to keep me entertained and intrigued until they put out something new.

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For those who didn't see it here's the clip from Mad Men that got everyone in a tizzy Sunday night:

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I'm pretty sure that everyone who watched last night's Mad Men premiere has had this song stuck in their head ever since. Took me a little while to find the original song that Megan sang for Don's 40th birthday but I finally tracked it down and have been humming along to it all day long. I'm not really sure what it is about French pop songs from ( Read more... )

Yelle is absolutely one of my all-time favorite performers. Her facial expressions are so fun and animated that I could watch a million videos of just her singing, and on top of that her dance moves are none too shabby either. She puts all of that star power together for "Comme Un Enfant", which looks a lot like the companion video to "Que veux- ( Read more... )