CONCERT REVIEW: HOUSSE DE RACKET AT LA CIGALE (PARIS)
Housse de Racket (Paris, France), The Dodoz (Toulouse, France), and Kid Bombardos (Bordeaux, France)June 1st, 2012La Cigale in Paris, France After America had their chance to catch France’s Housse de Racket, who criss-crossed North America between SXSW and Coachella,
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: DOOMTREE & YELAWOLF AT LA CIGALE (PARIS)
As a Midwesterner who splits time between Chicago, Madison and Minneapolis, learning and anticipating spending a good chunk of the next year in Europe, like many others, instantly calls forth premature nostalgia for all things 3:30 AM diner trips, craft brews (recently Cave à Bulles solved that), f
PHOTOGRAPHY + VIDEO: ZUZOOM AT LE 114 (PARIS)
Zuzoom (Paris, France) and Nach (Paris, France)April 10th, 2012Le 114 in Paris, France Any bar or venue with a wall made out of cassettes, even though it feels and is probably sponsored by Puma, is good in my book. Better yet, Fender bar stools near the bar (which make me miss my own-the stool a
PHOTOGRAPHY + VIDEO: ASTRONAUTALIS AT L’INTERNATIONAL (PARIS)
Astronautalis (Minneapolis, MN) and Bleubird (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)January 18th, 2012L’International in Paris, France The past few years it’s always a thrill to hear that Astronautalis is coming to town, kinda what you would imagine it’d be like back in the 1880s when the cir
INTERVIEW: THE DØ (PARIS)
Earlier this year, word came across the Atlantic to me in the States that Paris’ The Dø were working on a new album. When our France-based writer offered to review it, I definitely wanted to hear what her thoughts were on it since the first single, “Slippery Slope”, was a shocking, fresh s
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: DESSA AND HINDI ZAHRA AT LINCOLN HALL (CHICAGO)
Dessa (Minneapolis, MN) and Hindi Zahra (France/Morocco)October 11th, 2011Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois Sometime during the late summer, not so far away from now actually and in a midst of that still growing curiosity of all that’s going on across the Atlantic, I happened upon the most vib
Review: Joakim – Nothing Gold (2011)
Joakim came into my existence in 2008 through a ridiculous, quirky and addictive trip of a remix for Late of the Pier. Seven minutes long, it was an ambitious track with a subversive disco beat mixed in with razor guitars and a completely disjointed Sam Eastgate. Imagine the song tossed in
Concert Review: Zaz at Rockwood Music Hall (New York City)
Zaz (Tours, France)July 30th, 2011Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, New York Everyone gets nervous when landing in a foreign country. You stammer with the semblances of the learnt language in hopes that people can understand you. You stumble around hoping you caught the right metro line to the
Review: Kitsuné Maison Compilation 11 (2011)
Six years after the first Kitsuné Maison Compilation the Paris based fashion and electronic music label have reached their 11th instalment of the indie inspired club music collection… or is that club inspired indie music? This is a question which has followed the label around the past decade. The