Blog: It's Pop!

The first artist to feature in this new section of the blog is one of my favorites of the past few months. #What? Montreal (single) #Who? The Weeknd , a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye, a canadian singer and producer who made 2011 a pretty good year by releasing and giving for free three 'mixtapes' of very high quality. All this is extremely promising and he should be quite big in 2012. [...]

I absolutely totally completely forgot to post the interview @3emeGauche and I did with Foster The People , you know, that band full of hotties and whose album is so hit-packed it would almost make Girls Aloud blush? We met them a few hours before their sold-out show at La Cigale, one of the best venues in Paris, during the Inrocks Black XS Festival. Well anyway, here it is for your viewing pleasure. My only question is: why the [...]

First things first: I wish you all a marvelous year, full of Madonna albums, Kylie 25th anniversary... and Scissor Sisters amazingness! Yes Sir, our beloved Scissters just premiered a new track on UK radio, and guess what: it's fantastic. It's surprising, unexpected while remaining true to the band's uninterrupted string of fun, energetic and sexy tunes. Shady Love features up & coming female rapper Azealia Banks (quite good track here ) and sees Jake [...]

It's that time of the year again! You know, that moment when every person on the internet feels the need to tell the world about the songs/movies/books/whatever they liked during the year and list them. Well I'm one of them. So without further ado here are my top 50+ songs of 2011. You can listen to them while you read thanks to a handy SPOTIFY PLAYLIST . When the songs aren't available on there, I provided you with a link ("LISTEN"). Of course I'd like to know what you've been listening to during the [...]

Oyez oyez petits lutins. Alors qu'à l'approche des fêtes vous vous apprêtez à faire bombance et à vous déconnecter pour quelques jours dans l'allégresse la plus totale, baignée de foie gras et autres chapons farcis, certains ont pensé à vous. Et je ne parle pas de votre vieille tatie qui cette année encore vous a acheté une paire de chaussettes Lucky Luke. C'est l'ami Nico Prat se met en quatre pour vous apporter un peu de répit entre deux tranches de dinde. Nico, c'est cette voix [...]

Pop wonders and probably one of the most amazing bands EVER Goldfrapp just announced the release of their first "best-of" album The Singles , set for February 6th. All those amazing songs put together probably make it one of the most fantastic pop records of all time, no less. Of course the tracklisting will comprise new tracks, two to be precise: Melancholy Sky is the first one and what seems to be "the single" is a beautiful track [...]

Mes chouchous de Revolver seront officiellement de retour le 1é2 décembre prochain avec un EP annonçant la sortie début 2012 de leur second album. " Wind Song EP " propose, outre l'excellente et super-entêtante chanson éponyme, le magnifique titre The Letter , et deux remixes. Ayant eu la chance d'entendre bon nombre de titres du prochain album du trio, il y a quelques mois en studio, je peux vous assurer que celui-ci s'annonce particulièrement excitant. Les deux titres que l'on [...]

Yes. I usually try not to lose my senses/brag/act like a horny teenager/act anything but professional when I meet a "celebrity" (anyone remotely more famous for doing anything more or less artistic), but sometimes love comes in the way. Well, that's for times when I don't meet IDOLS and/or proper pop legends. Imagine when I meet Kylie or Madonna. Tonight was a party held at the UK Embassy in Paris, for the opening of [...]

This is the new Nicola Roberts video you probably won't be able to watch here because Vevo sucks. Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, it's a third amazing single in a row for Nicola. And it features a hot piece of model ass. An Nic in a shower. Get watchin' you pervs! The superhot Dimitri Tikovoi collab will be released as a single that will probably not get to #1 on January 2nd. " The CD single will come with both [...]

SEE THE END OF THE POST FOR THE ÜBER-COOL CONTEST! FACT: Kylie is amazing. FACT: Her latest album Aphrodite is amazing, cheerful, modern, exciting and super pop. FACT: Her Aphrodite - Les Folies Tour was probably the most stunningly beautiful, festive, hit-filled and thrilling show I've ever seen. Let's see: Now the wonderful 2-hour pop extravaganza is available for you [...]

The DØ - Slippery Slope (Live at Studio Pigalle) This is still one of my favorite songs of the past twelve months and this epic 8-minute version makes it even more beautiful and addictive. LØVE! Little Mix - Don't Let Go I would LOVE to see those girls win the X Factor this year (except if Misha does), not only because [...]

Tellement de progrès depuis ce concert du mois de mai au Bataclan. Superbe lightshow, nouveaux arrangements forts et puissants, voix maîtrisée et envoûtante. Belle harmonie de groupe. Intelligente adjonction d'une choriste. Mais par pitié, que Nili se taise entre les chansons ! Tant d'idiotie, c'est gênant. De "on remercie quand même notre tourneur, même s'il vous arnaque" (Uni-T aura apprécié), à "merci aussi à ceux qui ont des travails (sic) moins gratifiants, au son ..., au backline...", on frissonne d'angoisse et de gêne pour le reste du groupe, Ben le premier, qu'on aimerait plus expansif. Heureusement qu'il [...]

Madonna , undisputed Queen of all things pop, pictured on November 12th in NYC at the Smirnoff event where she's supposed to choose the dancers for her 2012 tour. Looking flawless. Suck it Rihanna. (Major heads up to whichever surgeon did that. This is truly a work of art).

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Let's make something clear before I even start: Madonna 's still the ultimate queen of pop. Well, that being said, let's focus on the topic of discussion: the leak of a demo version of Madge's new single Give Me All Your Love . It is supposed to be released in February and lead the forthcoming album's campaign. Well, let's be clear: even though it channels party-Madonna and 80s-influenced-Madonna, it's nowhere near the quality requested for the single opening a new era (then again we've had [...]

Who cares who War Of Words really are when they have such great songs (actually they are Ali Browning and Lucy Duffield)? Two songs, if I want to be accurate. They're so great they're both being released on Popjustice HiFi , generally amazing pop purveyor Popjustice 's label, which already gave us Bright Light Bright Light in the past. You can learn more about the band by reading all that's written on their Facebook page . There's stuff like that : "When Abi was younger [...]

• War Of Words - Battleground
• War Of Words - Panic

C'est sympa d'avoir des invités de temps en temps, non ? On peut boire une bière fraîche et écouter du son qui va bien. Après Lara il y quelques jours , j'accueille avec joie l'un de mes twittos préférés, Mr Trop Doux , le genre de garçon bien élevé toujours prompt à balancer un lien lol ou une douceur musicale qui fait mouche. Vous verrez qu'il y a dans sa playlist de bien jolies choses, mais très franchement, autant le laisser présenter sa sélection tout seul. [...]

Albums: they're like singles, but longer. They last about 45 minutes in general. some are good and exciting thoughout, some are a neverending showers of crap (LMFAO I'm looking at you). Some were released recently and I didn't get time to review them properly. Here's somewhat of a round-up. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes Quite tragically, since Girls Aloud members chose to embrace solo careers during the band's "break", [...]

Bonjour, nous sommes Revolver, et nous aimons faire des têtes chafouines. Merci à 3emeGauche.tv pour leur excellent travail derrière la caméra et la table de montage. Comme d'habitude en fait ! En 2009, Revolver a surpris et charmé un large public avec la sortie de son premier album intitulé Music For A While , un disque frais et savamment produit qui rappelait la pop des Beatles, de Radiohead ou d'Elliot Smith. [...]

Cette semaine j'ai l'honneur et le plaisir de recevoir mon amie et ancienne partner in crime d'OWNImusic Lara ( @larachacha ). Elle vous fait découvrir un groupe que je ne vous aurais sans doute pas proposé ici, mais comme d'habitude avec elle, la qualité est au rendez-vous. Vous pouvez y aller les yeux fermés ! As True As Troilus by FareWell Poetry http://soundcloud.com/farewell poetry C'est une œuvre étrange. Entre nostalgie, interrogation [...]

• FareWell Poetry - As True As Troilus