Sufjan Stevens, concert Salle Pleyel (Paris, 06/07/12 )

Vendredi soir, je suis allé au Planétarium me faire un petit son et lumière. Une évidence, auquel je ne m’attendais pas, suspendue au dessus de la scène : cet énorme sphere de tissu,… Read More →

French rap is all about respecting mums nowadays.

”The whole family listens to Sexion d’Assaut” A piece I wrote for Le Parisien in March, the capital’s most read daily newspaper, on the chart-topping and family friendly rap crew Sexion d’Assaut. In… Read More →

Five things I’ve learned from the Field Day Festival 2011

1) There’s really A LOT of dickheads, erm, hipsters in East London. I mean, I’ve always been vaguely aware of their existence and I even have some of them as friends, but never have… Read More →

Sufjan Stevens performs 3 acoustic songs on New York Radio

Last week, Brooklyn-based indie folk legend Sufjan Stevens stopped by the Soundcheck studio of WNYC (New York Public Radio) to discuss his latest album, The Age of Adz, released last October. He also… Read More →

This Week’s Playlist #2

Summer is here – or at least should be here, since it hasn’t been that great of a week weather-wise in London (BORING). As it’s the custom, my iPod adapts to the seasons… Read More →

This Week’s Playlist #1

George Duke – For Love I Come  from The Aura Will Prevail (1975) Relatively unknown gem of acid funkadelia courtesy of George Duke, the great synth pioneer and astral soul traveller of the 1970s, who honed his monster… Read More →

Heavy Metal: IRON by WOODKID [the work of Yoann Lemoine]

Following in the footsteps of world-famous french directors such as Stephane Sednaoui (Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Give It Away), Michel Gondry or more recently Romain Gavras (Justice, M.I.A), Yoann Lemoine is the… Read More →

Towards a new rap aesthetic? Or: How Kanye West changed the art of rap videos

Intro Like a couple of other articles previously published on this blog, I wrote most of the following paragraphs while interning at Sight & Sound. One day, when there wasn’t a single obscure… Read More →

The Wilhelm Scream Dillema

Which would you rather endure?  The repetitiveness of a YouTube compilation of the “Wilhelm Scream” in movies or the repetitiveness of James Blake’s Wilhelm Scream? One is considerably shorter than the other, but… Read More →

A guide to stage diving at the attention of ODD FUTURE

The nihilist skate kids of OFWGKTA are clearly doing it big at the moment, swagging their way to superstardom with their morbid anarcho rap that iTunes itself files under the “Fucking Awesome” genre.… Read More →