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Jean-Benoît Dunckel: 'the English are a hard audience to win over'

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Call him Darkel (Photo: Daniel Gutiérrez Acuña)

Ten years since the release of Air's first album 'Moon Safari', one half of the French duo, 38, talks Czech audiences, being a vanguard of the European electronic scene and why Air are not like Radiohead

by Fernando G. Acuña & Irene Andreu Carrera // 15/03/08

AGENDA

British band The Cure are back

Plus charming French-Finnish duo 'The Duo', a tasty Swedish morsel of Jens Lekman, chic Danes 'The Fashion' and slightly unusual Italians Avvolte Kristheda - the best bands in March

by Sandra Wickert // 12/03/08

INTERVIEW
An Pierlé at Huma, 2005 (Photo: Philippe Jimenez/ Wikimedia)

An Pierlé: 'Downloads kill the industry'

The Dutch compared her to Tori Amos. In fact, the 33-year-old Belgian connoisseur of ‘kitsch’ French songs and pop is a theatrical musician who plays the piano sat on a big transparent ball, jumping about whilst tightly clutching her accordion

by Amandine Agic // 07/03/08

AGENDA

Music: Morcheeba, Brisa Roché and Moi Caprice

San Francisco feelings, Danish bands with French names and a rap collective named after a freedom movement: Europe's best music crop this month

by Sandra Wickert // 07/02/08

NEWS

Apple gets fair on UK music downloads

Portuguese no to reform treaty referendum, the pan-EU music marketplace and Sarkozy’s press conference

by Stella Willborn // 14/01/08

AGENDA

Roxana Rio, The Moog and DJ Missill

New Year kicks off with Mexican aspirations, Norwegian mix up of styles, a French princess of the turntables and a surprise coup from Hungary. This is the European music agenda for 2008!

by Sandra Wickert // 11/01/08

PORTRAIT
DJ Géro in action in Nouveau Casino club, Paris (©Romy Straßenburg)

DJ Gero: vinyl wonder

Oft dismissed as the childless 'loser generation’, twenty-somethings have unexpected talents. Our German and French correspondents give them a chance to have their say. Part IV of a series from Paris and Berlin

by Romy Straßenburg // 08/01/08

Welcome to Ismael Serrano's studio (Photo: Salvador Gómez Barranco)

Ismael Serrano: 'Music helps us to connect with others'

From his Madrid studio, the Spanish singer-songwriter, 33, justifies how songs contribute to improving the world and his take on what 'canción de autor' music is

by Salvador Gómez Barranco // 04/01/08

PORTRAIT

Shams: Tajikistan’s answer to The Beatles

That’s how the band are known in their home country, where they are the most popular group around. Despite their success they’re still fighting the CD pirates and are broke at the end of the month

by Evangeline Masson // 13/12/07

AGENDA

WinterKids, Tchi and Muchy

English teens, the Swedish Aimee Mann, pure Italian pop and the latest Polish hopefuls on the music scene this winter

by Sandra Wickert // 11/12/07

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