Dance music without a beat is a hard sell. It’s made all the more difficult when the drums and programming are replaced by an acoustic guita...

Known for her one-off contributions to the Le Pop compilations, Toutes Mes Aventures is the debut album of Fredda. Neither Lolita-style char...

Cali is amongst the vanguard of French musicians redefining the "chanson” movement. Unlike the cabaret or bossa-nova styles that fill Parisi...

"14 Days,” the opening track of New Yorkers Science For Girls’ self-titled debut, teases the listener into thinking this could finally be th...

As those on North American shores found out recently with the phenomenal success of Peter, Bjorn, and John, and going all the way back to th...

The artist nominations of Canada’s "indie centric” community for the Polaris Prize have been highly criticised. Nowhere is this more evident...

Ten years ago, Ana D took the melodic warbling of twee pop and added the progressive, space-aged sounds of Stereolab and the exotic charm of...

The fact that in Vive La Fete’s bio it says Karl Lagerfeld is their number one fan and they have played the chicest fashion shows in Europe...

The Pinker Tones’ The Million Colour Revolution was a refreshing breeze of Beck-inspired groove with a European dance sensibility that was o...

Mexican Institute of Sound are not the school where Mexican artists learn to sell records in the U.S. but the one-man Latin lounge project o...

Although the jury is still out on whether baile funk will go the way of electro-clash, it has been the "in” sound of indie dance parties for...

With the rise in popularity of French Yéyé pop throwback nights, this greatest hits compilation from Dick Rivers is the perfect pre-outing m...

Although North American audiences are likely better versed in his work producing and writing albums for younger sister Coralie Clément, Kere...

In their never-ending quest to fuse traditional world sounds with dance floor-friendly grooves, the Mexican Sessions finds the UK’s Up, Bust...

Much like how Alex Cuba’s Aqua Del Pozo was a refreshing take on a new, more mature Latin musical mentality aspiring to combine the diverse...

Various Currently the French music scene is undergoing a refreshing and unique renaissance that is witnessing a number of small labels pop...

Although arguably never achieving the fame of contemporaries like Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Dutronic, Michel Polnareff still remains one...

If you want to learn to play pop music, you have to go to the land of pop music. Although which country currently holds this title is always...

Southerly is Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Krist Krueger’s project of orch pop mixed with a kind of rootsy Americana. Like fellow Por...

Naming your band after two regions in France is usually an open ticket to writing lovely little Euro pop ditties about summer love on the se...