Some Sun in my Street

A very fresh song by Féfé (former member of the Saian Supa Crew)

Féfé - Dans ma rue

Special tops of French music

I dont like much doing top of Music. I'm bored too quickly. But what is to remember of this year in French music? I guess it would be Benjamin Biolay's Suberbe, Dominique A's Musique, Oxmo Puccino's L'arme de Paix and Brigitte Fontaine's Prohibition. Maybe also Phoenix, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Emilie Simon for some hype, but also JP Nataf and Miossec and many others.

Here some tops 2009 of French music I recommend (even they dont have much of rock and rap because they focus on Chanson).

-the top of RFI Musique

-the top of Musique mag

And also three anthologies of old but great French speaking music released in 2009.

-France:Une anthologie des musiques traditionnelles (Fremeaux)

-Tumbélé: Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-1974 (Soundway)
- Buigine à la Canne à Sucre (Fremaux)

I would recommend also The 100 best French rap songs, according to ABCDR du son. A really nice list with all the classics from NTM, IAM, Booba and Oxmo Puccino.

But this year is also the one of the death of three important French singing artists: Mano Solo, Alain Bashung and Lhasa de Sela.

Quelques chansons pour la route

Some 2009's sounds, chanson style!

Benjamin Biolay - La Superbe



Emily Loizeau - Sister

What's up?

Brigitte Fontaine - Prohibition


Eiffel - A Tout Moment La Rue

Only The Best

I hope you'll like them! Oxmo Puccino, and Mano Solo, two of my favorite singers :-)

Mano Solo - Les Chevaux d'Aubervilliers (Rentrer au Port, 2009)


Oxmo Puccino - L'Un de nous deux (L'Arme de paix, 2009). The third single of this album.

Great News!

Miossec and Tue-Loups are back! Don't miss those important French artists.

Tue-Loup releases its 8th album, folowing the solo album of their leader Xavier Plumas.

Tue-Loup - Le Camping (Le Goût du Bonbon, 2009)

Christophe Miossec is back after L'Étreinte released 3 years ago. Finistériens has been composed with Yann Tiersen (from the city of Brest like Miossec).

Miossec - Je T'Aime Quand Même (Finistériens, 2009).

Here They Come

Two stars of French Music released new LPs.

Dominique A - Immortels (La Musique, 2009)


M (Mathieu Chédid) - Le Roi des ombres (Mister Mystère)

Check also the new album of We Insist! and upcoming ablums of Mano Solo.

, Benjamin Biolay, Jean-Louis Murat...

North Sun

Oxmo Puccino - Soleil du Nord (L'arme de Paix, 2009)

They sing in English

M83 - We Own the Sky (Saturdays=Youth, 2008) - Myspace



Diving With Andy - Sugar Sugar (Sugar Sugar, 2009) - Myspace

Sebastien Schuller - The Border (Evenfall, 2009) - Myspace


Butch McKoy (Welcome Home, 2009) - Myspace

Hype is French

Phoenix - Lisztomania

Nosfell releases Nosfell

The third LP of the incredible singer-songwriter Nosfell is fascinating! Its not the first time we write about him on French-kisses, and certainly not the last. By the way, Josh Homme is featuring on a song.


An unplugged live session with a new song, Bargain healers:

To listen to Nosfell: his Myspace for the new LP, deezer for the previous one.

Manual For Successful Rioting

I rarely write about electronic music because I know very little about it. Here, a little of Birdy Nam Nam.
Birdy Nam Nam - Manual For Successful Rioting

A good-fellow

Alexis HK by Pirlouiiiitt

Alexis HK "Les Affranchis" (French name of the Scorsese's Goodfellas), from la Familia, released on March. Its his 5th album.



MySpace

A French Cat meowing

Chat by Pierre-jean G.

Chat (means cat) is a French singer-songwriter who released her first album on February. Worth listening!

"Alice", from Folie Douce

You can listen the whole album there. Their myspace.

La Rue Kétanou's in the Street

The new album of La Rue Kétanou, A Contre-Sens released!

La Rue Kétanou - Derrière ses cheveux longs (Behind her long hair, about a girl who's been raped)

Pissing In The Grass

The new single of Ignatus, Dans l'Herbe, from his 2009's LP Je remercie le hasard qui. The movie clip is really nice too.

Xavier Plumas goes solo

The singer-songwritter Xavier Plumas (leader of Tue-Loup) has released his first solo LP: La Gueule du Cougouar. Here's the single, Ne Demanderai Rien (Will ask nothing).

Some news

Oxmo Puccino aka the Black Jacques Brel is back with a really good new single, 365 Days, of his upcoming LP "L'arme de Paix" (The Peace weapon).

Alain Bashung, the dark Prince of French Music is the winner of the Victoires de la Musique (Music's Victories) for his LP Bleu Pétrole. He has received11 awards since 1986! Camille, Arthur H and Rokia Traoré were also awarded. Good news actually, since the Victoires de la Musique are used to award cheesy artists.