Les Variations: Cafe De Paris (Buddah)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1975
THE FRENCH ARE the coolest breed (that's a fact), even more cool than blacks or faggots. Rimbaud and Cocteau were no poopoos, fella. In fact, the ...

Eddy Mitchell/Billy Swan/The Jordanaires: Olympia, Paris
Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, June 1975
Vegas on 8 cheeseburgers a day...or a bitch-in with Nashville's men of steel in Gay Paree. Which would you prefer? ...

Apres Nous Le Deluge: The Nouvelle Vague Of Pop Francaise
Report and Interview by Rob Chapman, Mojo, July 1998
"THERE’S NOTHING HAPPENING in England right now. It’s like 1975. Deep Purple for me are like The Prodigy. Led Zeppelin are Chemical Brothers." Daniel Auxerre, head ...

Air: Moon Safari
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, Spring 1998
MODULAR FRENCHMEN Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel need no reminding that French pop has always been a bit of a joke. With the brilliant Moon ...

Phoenix
Interview by Ed Doheny, Revolver, 2000
AIR'S ADORABLE Moon Safari proved if nothing else that the pop universe had become a less xenophobic place. Now comes the first album by Phoenix, a ...

Air: 'If We Don't Surprise People Any More, Then We Will Die'
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2000
"THE FIRST time I was in LA," says Nicolas Godin, "I was in a very cool hotel. And in front of that hotel was a very ...

Serge Gainsbourg: A Rake's Progress
Retrospective by Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, January 2001
IF YOU WALK into the Montparnasse cemetery, the first thing you see is the enormous stone double bed where Charles Pigeon – the inventor of the ...

En Garde! Le Pop Nouveau Français, c’est Arrivé!
Profile by Etienne Petit, Rock's Backpages, March 2001
The late ’90s saw the flowering of a nouveau French techno-pop. Now Air, Daft Punk and friends are conquering the world. RBP’s Paris correspondent explains ...

Air: 10,000 Hz Legend (Source/Virgin)
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, Mojo, April 2001
Self-proclaimed "grown-up" album from French duo who created 1998’s million-selling retro-pop classic, Moon Safari, and inspired many imitators. ...

Daft Punk & Air: Disco Tech
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DAFT PUNK AND AIR ARE THE BEATLES AND STONES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE SCENE. SO WHY IS THE FRENCH ESTABLISHMENT – SO PROUD OF ITS TRADITION ...

Johnny Hallyday: Vive Johnny
Profile and Interview by Robin Eggar, The Times, March 2003
THERE IS something reassuringly dissolute about Johnny Hallyday. He may be 59, but he inhabits one of those undernourished frames, all angles and sharp edges, beloved ...

Creme Anglaise: Jane Birkin
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, May 2003
THE REMAINS of an English breakfast stand on a table, and several bags are strewn around the room – one of them a well-worn example of ...

Carla Bruni: Quelqu'un m'a dit (V2)
Review by Charlie Gillett, The Observer, 2004
MAYBE YOU KNOW her name. I didn't when I first played songs from this album several times on the radio last year,, until a listener ...

Phoenix: Alphabetical
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, June 2004
WHEN FRENCH POP did the unthinkable and became cool, Phoenix found themselves on the ones to watch list. Disappointingly they never got off it. The carefree ...

French Rock'n'roll: What – No Accordion?
Interview by David McKenna, The Guardian, October 2004
CALL A COMPILATION Le Nouveau Rock'n'roll Français and, even now, you risk sparking associations with the figure most people take to represent the old French rock'n'roll ...

Camille: Le Fil (Bout du Fil)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Observer Music Monthly, April 2005
AT THE TIME of receiving this record, I had never heard of Camille before, and knew only that she is French. The photo on the cover ...

Air: Pocket Symphony
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2007
SO HIP THEY'RE passé, sexy geekboys Air continue to mine the seam of elegiac futurism wowed ten thousand ad executives back in '98. After the delicious ...

Jacques The Lad: Jacques Brel
Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, February 2009
FIRST THINGS FIRST. Try to forget that Jacques Brel, the Belgian singer-songwriter, is indirectly responsible for Terry Jacks's 'Seasons in the Sun'. Forget also for a ...

By the Time They Get to… Phoenix
Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, October 2009
GROWING UP IN Versailles, an affluent suburb of Paris, the four boys who would eventually form Phoenix bonded over their love of American pop culture. They ...