
After nearly 10 YEARS of giving Brighton the finest in Synthesized Sounds, vintage French Pop and Electronic Delights we have decided that it's time to go out with a great big SHEBAM! POW! BLOP! WIZZZZZ! SATURDAY 26 MAY 2012 la dernière L'Amour Electronique 9pm – 3am The Westhill, 67 Buckingham Place, Brighton, BN1 3PQ FREE ENTRY as it has always been So please join us for one last late-night cocktail of 60s Yé-Yé, 80s Synthpop, Electronic Pioneers, 8-Bit, Qu [...]

Prima o poi doveva succedere…lo sapevamo che sarebbe successo, ma non avevamo una data precisa…lo intuivamo che era dietro l'angolo la svolta, ma un po' la temevamo, come si teme lo sconosciuto e l'incerto. Ma la paura è presto fugata. Nonostante il passaggio al cantato italiano, i The Death of Anna Karina non si smuovono di un millimetro dalle loro precedenti scelte sonore e continuano a sputarci addosso scomode verità con la stessa furia e lo stesso vigore. "Lacrima/Pantera", prodotto dall'onnipresente Giulio 'Ragno' Favero , è una nuova pietra miliare per il noise rock [...]

On his brand-new album I Wish I Was Someone Else, German singer Patrick Zimmer alias Finn uses a well-tried, though not very well-worn concept when covering mostly so-called classic radio smash hits from the 70s and 80s, Lo-fi production style. Flogging braindead horses like I Shot the Sheriff or Tina Turner's Private Dancer bare bones folkie-style doesn't make them the slightest bit more thrilling ... in short, it's all going nowhere in a hurry. With the exception of a quite upbeat cover of Ne dis rien, originally rendered by Serge G. and Godard favorite Anna [...]
Torna la tre giorni gratuita di musica mostre e incontri rivolti ad un pubblico sensibile ai temi riguardanti le nuove forme di diritto d'autore, la musica emergente, l'ecosostenibilità, le nuove forme di editoria e molto altro ancora. Pochissimi giorni alla chiusura di Rock in Rolo Contest 2011 , il concorso è aperto a tutti gli artisti o gruppi che facciano qualsiasi tipo di genere ruoti attorno al rock. Continua a leggere Rock in Rolo Festival 2011: primi confermati The Death of Anna Karina, Fast Animals and Slow Kids e Pazi Mine... [...]
The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars. The band's 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg's 2009 musical [...]
Jean-Luc Godard, one of the great masters of "La Nouvelle Vague", by carrying on screen "Pierrot Le Fou" in 1965, symbolizes the hymn to freedom, colors and love... A dreamlike atmosphere for a movie full of references to Art, Literature and poetry. Color is treated as an integral part through the repetition of red and [...]

Sono tornati. Dopo cinque anni di silenzio ecco ancora i The Death Of Anna Karina , una delle band più prodigiose e acclamate della penisola, capaci di infuocare da oltre dieci anni i palchi italiani ed europei. Tornano con delle novità importanti, tra cui la più significativa è senza dubbio un disco cantato totalmente in italiano, che segna la loro svolta definitiva verso la madrelingua. "Lacrima / Pantera" è questo, undici pezzi che non lasciano il tempo di riprendere il fiato, undici pezzi densi di disperata vitalità, che scorrono attraverso citazioni e riferimenti di un amore [...]
Panaframe just hit me with this new video for Yellow Ostrich 's I Think U Are Great . Instant win involving Anna Karina, never say never. Go get The Mistress right now!
This Saturday sees us back in The West Hill for another L'Amour Electronique [9pm-3am / 67 Buckingham Place, BN1 3PQ / Free Entry] Guests can expect the (un)usual mix of 60s yé-yé, Gallic pop, synthesized sounds, freakbeat, electronics and other delights. But this time there will be additional eye-candy in the form of some Nouvelle Vague cinema and music videos up on the TV. We've not decide what we're screening yet, but I'm eager to give this one a showing

Anna Karina was Jean-Luc Godard's muse, his starlett and his wife. She was the main actress in most of the films he directed and this includes a couple of my favorites: Pierrot Le Fou and Alphaville. I always thought she was hot, but I also always thought that it must have been weird for Godard to watch Jean-Paul Belmondo (possibly the coolest guy in the world) always play the romantic lead across from her. Anyways, here are some tracks for the francophile in you: Deejay Raph [...]

We premiered Pariah 's flawless remix of the xx 's " Basic Space " only a few days ago , and an enterprising fan has already put together this unofficial video, using oddly appropriate images of Anna Karina 's iconic performance in Godard 's Vivre Sa vie : mp3: the xx :: basic space (pariah remix) [thanks to young turks for the [...]

(Attention, titre à lire à haute et intelligible voix, de façon à bien profiter) Je m'en vais. Loin. En avion. Puis je vais m'allonger, sur un transat, sous un parasol. Un cocktail dans une main, un bouquin dans l'autre. Une jolie poupée à mes côtés. Le bruit de la mer, les grains de sables qui se collent partout, l'odeur de l'iode. Je vous laisse en bonne [...]
1961 Dick and Dee Dee, The Mountain's High. Ernie K-Doe, A Certain Girl. Roy Hamilton, You Can Have Her. The Texans, Rockin' Johnny Home. Stan Getz, I'm Late, I'm Late. Jacques Brel, Les Biches. Jean Ritchie, Barbara Allen. Patsy Cline, Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue). Ron Carter and George Duvivier, Bass Duet. Frits Weiland, Study In Layers and Pulses. The Outlaws, Tune
A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1967 John Lennon, Good Morning, Good Morning (demo). Dusty Springfield, What's It Gonna Be. Laura Lee, Dirty Man. The Techniques, Queen Majesty. Delia Derbyshire, Chromophone Band. The Nice, Azrial (Angel of Death). Fantastic Johnny C, Boogaloo Down Broadway. Anna Karina, Pistolet Jo. Gilberto Gil, Roda. Quarteto Novo, Vim de Sant'Ana. Joe Tex, Show Me.

After Goth, and between Twee, I was a Ye-Ye girl. Perhaps because I started smoking at a young age, perhaps because I cut my own bangs, perhaps because I couldn't stomach being Mod... ...Perhaps because deep-down, I really enjoyed smiling. And if enthusiastic 60s-French girl pop doesn't make you smile then you're just a sad cunt. 'Roller Girl' is my favorite track of the ye-ye variety, full of sexual innuendo and fantastic girly growl sounds. It's from the lovely Serg Gainsbourg comedy 'Anna' and performed by the equally [...]