Serge Gainsbourg

Emo Phillips, Phillips and Bassprov, RoboGames, Jeff Capri, Jason Hart, Duck Soup -- Night and Day: Saturday 6/16

Famed Chef Cooks Up Beats, Not Eats, at Ruby Skye

Free French Holiday DJ party

So you like French stuff? And you like free stuff? And you're looking to book your December datebook with as many holiday soirees as possible? Then here's one for the calendar: Rickshaw Stop is hosting Bardot a Go Go's "Holiday a Go Go," a free shindig where DJs spin "French Pop, Northern Soul, S ... More >>

Giving the French Soul on the 21st

San Francisco loves its old soul nights--but next weekend (Feb. 21 to be exact) there's party that offers two stories of nostalgia (or whatever the word is when you miss something you weren't old enough to live through in the first place) in one club with Sugar Shack. Upstairs at the Paradise you've ... More >>

Toxic Gump

The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a love letter to the sordid misfits of Britain

Sébastien Tellier

The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a love letter to the sordid misfits of Britain

Sebastien Tellier: France’s top pop chanteur

The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a love letter to the sordid misfits of Britain

Kiss and Tellier

Hail France’s top pop chanteur.

Flight of the Conchords tap into music career comedy

Hail France’s top pop chanteur.

Délicieuse Dissard

Hail France’s top pop chanteur.

Serge Gainsbourg

Histoire de Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic)

The Italian Job

Local imprint offers prog-rock masterworks from Italia's other Renaissance

Dark Side of the Songbird

Isobel Campbell sheds the twee and gets ballsy

Wonder Woman

The multifarious music of the multilingual, multiracial, multitalented Keren Ann

Repertory Theaters

The multifarious music of the multilingual, multiracial, multitalented Keren Ann

All Together Now

Devendra Banhart's latest indicates his neo-folk movement may just be hitting its stride

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Devendra Banhart's latest indicates his neo-folk movement may just be hitting its stride

What Came Before

Music and dance older than Jim Crow

The Real Tuesday Weld

I, Lucifer

House of Tudor

Celebrate the Holy Fool at the St. Stupid's Day Parade, and foolishness with Les Sans Culottes

House of Tudor

Bobby Conn serves up Serge Gainsbourg by way of Motörhead, all while chastising Dubya

DVD TNT

Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes both his chicken and his fans in this new documentary about one of the city's coolest bands

House of Tudor

Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes both his chicken and his fans in this new documentary about one of the city's coolest bands

House of Tudor

A rap-war documentary, the old new wave, and Gypsy-fied French noir

House Of Tudor

Compulsive Numbers, retro-refracted Flaming Stars, and filmmaker Peter Sempel

Sweet Musette

The Baguette Quartette keeps French accordion music alive -- with a little help from Gypsies, tramps, and thieves

House Of Tudor

Damned; Money Mark Nishita; Cousteau; Nigel Peppercock

Ulan Bator

Ego: Echo (Young God)

House Of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

The House of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Night Crawler

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

House of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

House of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Hear This

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

House of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Hear This

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Night Crawler

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

The House of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Reviews

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Recordings

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Recordings

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

Prince Paul Plays PST

Prince Paul Legendary producer Prince Paul (De La Soul/Gravediggaz/Handsome Boy Modeling School/Stetsasonic) drops through 330 Ritch's "PST" tonight for a rare DJ set.In case you don't know, PP is the guy who basically invented the alt.rap genre with his wacky, bugged-out production work on De La's ... More >>

Daddy Dearest

Prince Paul Legendary producer Prince Paul (De La Soul/Gravediggaz/Handsome Boy Modeling School/Stetsasonic) drops through 330 Ritch's "PST" tonight for a rare DJ set.In case you don't know, PP is the guy who basically invented the alt.rap genre with his wacky, bugged-out production work on De La's ... More >>

Last Night: Charlotte Gainsbourg at Palace of Fine Arts

Gretchen Robinette ​Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jogger, AMSaturday, April 17, 2010Palace of the Fine Arts Better Than: Carla Bruni Last night, the offspring of France's greatest contribution to pop music brought out an expat French community and fellow Francophiles in droves. Charlotte Gains ... More >>

R.I.P. Trish Keenan

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 2-8

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 9-15

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 16-22

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Serge, Mon Amour

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Live Review, 1/21/12: The Theophilus London Variety Show Comes to Mezzanine

Nathan MattiseTheophilus London at Mezzanine on Friday.​ Theophilus London K. Flay Nick Waterhouse (w/ The Tarots) Jan. 21, 2012 Mezzanine Better than: Some modern-day Lawrence Walk incarnation. Being an MC is hard. You can be criticized for one of the most abstract concepts in music -- your ... More >>