Music & Art
The Independents: No Major, Everybody Knows
PNL, Jul, Vitalic, Polo & Pan: how France's unsigned-and-unbothered artists filled the Olympia and swept the Victoires — independence as a winning strategy.
Music, art & screens
The soundtrack and the canvas
France never separates art from daily life: a century of songs in every taxi and karaoke bar, comics that read like cinema, museums you can actually afford, series the whole country debates at dinner. Music & Art is the guide to all of it — the classics your grandmother hums, the French touch that conquered dancefloors, the BD shelf worth smuggling home, and what to watch tonight.
Music & Art
The French Touch: France's Loudest Export
Daft Punk, Air, Justice — and MC Solaar, IAM, Jul: the two French musics that conquered the planet's dance floors and streets, and that no guidebook mentions.
Music & Art
Céline Dion: The Star France Adopted and Never Gave Back
From Charlemagne, Québec to Eurovision for Switzerland and the best-selling French album ever: how Céline Dion became the only Canadian the French claim.
Music & Art
The French Karaoke Canon: Songs Every Generation Must Know
From Goldman to Stromae: the karaoke canon by decade, why every French room sings along, and the choruses you must know before your first French party.
Music & Art
Thérapie Taxi: The Paris Band That Sounds Like a Night Gone Wrong
Formed in Paris around 2014, Thérapie Taxi turned dirty psychedelic pop into the sound of a night gloriously derailing — the password of a Parisian generation.
Music & Art
The 2020s Radio Report: What France Has Played on Repeat
Jul, Aya Nakamura, PNL, then Theodora: what French radio really sounded like across the 2020s — rap became the mainstream and nobody announced it.