Orleans, France five-piece indie pop band UPSEEN released their five track EP “El Monstruo” this past December [’17], with the beautiful opening track “Life” leading off the effort. Upseen...
Pauline Drand: Les V...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Passionate French independent label LA SOUTERRAINE has been steadily releasing quality compilations a little more than monthly, and one of the newest that arrived this February was called “VOYAGE EN SOUTE“, a...
Arlt & Les Artis...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Est-Ce Que C’est Le Vent” roughly translated to “It is the Wind” comes from the new anthology “OUF, l’anthologie souterraine, 2015-2017“, a compilation of 22 underground...
flyingdeadman: A str...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
flyingdeadman are a French post-rock band long based out of Bressuire who just issued their newest instrumental yet sample laden six-track EP ‘56 seasons‘ earlier this year in January. ‘A strange feeling...
LOS VVS: Untitled #1
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature “Untitled #1” comes from the Parisian garage-punk and surf rock band LOS VVS’s 2016 4 song release “EP Tape“. This beautifully primal single is the third track on this...
Maud Octallinn: Supe...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Champagne-Ardenne based French singer-songwriter Maud Octallinn first started performing in various folk and rock groups in a somewhat hidden role, after which point she finally decided to devote all her time to writing and...
Api Uiz: Garçons et ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Api Uiz is a long-standing instrumental rock trio from Bordeaux France, who celebrated their 20th anniversary this year, a great achievement. Their music is described as multicolored punk energy, with long and repetitive...
Have the Moskovik: T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
French sample heavy post-rock four-piece Orléans came together in the city in 2006, adding a performer into the mix for their high energy and stimulating live shows. In 2011 they created their own label Gropied Records and...
100%chevalier: La Ma...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In April of 2013 Strabourg France three-piece math rock group 100%chevalier released their five track EP, titled “EP-IC“, containing incredible tracks like Kevy King, Karmageddon and of course our favorite, and...
Alphabetical: Winter
posted by Charles Stepczyk
French indie pop band Alphabetical hail from Paris, a talented five piece group who’ve reportedly been around since 2012. At the beginning of 2014 in January they released the six song EP, Rusted Gold, which you can...
Comett: Time for Dep...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We recently spotted this newish track from French indie pop duo COMETT while diving headlong into the abyss of endless music postings on Twitter (via Twitter Search). This is among the handful of sparkling songs we fished...
Mambassa Blouz Band:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
MBB are a Liège, France based trio with 12 releases behind them since their formation in July of 1990. From what we could discern from our translator, the group is self described as a punk/ska/rock/reggae fiesta with a...
Ending Satellites: T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s dose is an instrumental track I ran across by French group Ending Satellites whom release all their songs under a Creative Commons License. Their newest album “7 Billion Passengers, Only One Flight”...
Malajube: Synesthesi...
posted by Stuart Morrison
This is from the fourth album of Montreal’s Maljube, entitled La Caverne, released towards the end of 2011. “Listening to La Caverne conjures images of stepping into the cavern with them; it is primal and vast,...
Fresh Body Shop: Nex...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We first featured Fresh Body Shop just over a year ago. The French band just released a new album, available for free, or you can make a donation, on Jamendo. “Fresh Body Shop is an Electro Pop band based in Nantes...
Plastic People: Time...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the French Band’s free debut album Good As You. For download links see below. A homage to Plastic Bertrand and Village people? Maybe! Maybe not! After great adventures, the ‘Naked Man’ has got dressed again to...
Fresh Body Shop: Dra...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The title track from the new release by French band Fresh Body Shop, available for free, or donation, from Jamendo. There is very little information to be found about this band, apart from that they are from Nantes in...
Julie Peel: Unfold
posted by Charles Stepczyk
French indie rocker and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Julie Peel writes smart, well-crafted folk rock with a pop sensibility reminiscent of Aimee Mann, Neil Young, Beth Orton and Feist. Julie’s debut album...
Drunksouls: Uniform ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Continuing the Insomnia Radio Daily Dose’s trip to Europe, this band are from the South of France. From their Artist Page on Jamendo: “Drunk Souls: A strange team composed by a former dictator, a pedalo...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This session has a French title although it was probably butchered by the Babel Fish free translator to mean something completely offensive. In a perfect world it should roughly translate to ‘Female Musicians of...