Dantone, out of Paris, is a pop genius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcD0fbfAgNU

Please let me use this thread to plug my favourite French pop musicians who also happen to be generally amazing people:

O-Olivier Marguerit


Blumi


Mendelson


Thousand


Halo Maud

arthur wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 5:52 pmBlumi

This was good.

heard this recently

El G


One of my favorite records and SS sells it cheap!
https://www.s-srecords.com/

the Béruriers noirs, probably the most famous punk from the 80's in france :


Marvin and Papier Tigre were mentioned before. (
They do something called the "Colonie de vacance" : four bands (marvin, papier tigre, electric electric, pneu) playing a show together, each band on a corner playing simultaneously and the public in the center, it seems fun !

There are a lot of rock-noise bands who love some fucked up metrics in their music :

PoiL :
Chromb :
Sec (might have been mentioned before too) :

Some rock in Occitan (a dialect from the south which nearly disappeared and is often defended by regionalists, mainly conservatives and racists, so i'm glad to hear other ways of making it alive !) :

How's about Sister Iodine?

Here are a couple of recent bands:

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 10:54 am

I miss this band, but I'm always delighted to share their music with those who ask about French sounds.

Digging Yakoo's new band.