Guardian Music — Beak>, On tourIt takes Portishead 10 long and fairly painful years to make an album. Strangely, though, for Beak>, the project of Geoff Barrow, Portishead's disarmingly un-starry producer, the whole process seems a good deal less fraught. In fact, fo... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about the pleasures of the flesh. Now we want you to suggest songs that announce themselves in styleThat was more like it. As I attempt to explain in this week's column, I didn't quite appreciate how juicy "meat" would prove as a to... more info

Stereogum — This NSFW French-language trailer (via TwentyFourBit) for Joann Sfar'sSerge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life makes us want to see the film. Mainly because Eric Elmosnino seems to inhabit Gainsbourg the way Sam Riley made like Ian Curtis in Control. Also: Nu... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz pianist Stefano Bollani tells Will Hodgkinson why he'd hate to be a Rolling StoneWhile not wishing to suggest that he is sexually attracted to them, the Italian pianist Stefano Bollani is comparing a good session with his Danish rhythm section t... more info

Streetkiss Music — La scène indépendante française est comme une malle remplie de trésors... C'est précisément dans cette malle que j'ai découvert Vanessa Chassaigne et ses chansons d'amour et de plage... L'amour est son fer de lance, sa rai... more info

Streetkiss Music — Gros coup de coeur artistique pour célèbrer ce 30ème Kool Kiss ! Ce sera en compagnie de Karen Lano. Karen Lano est Franco-Allemande, elle a talent fou pour composer des morceaux remplis de magie, qui semblent tout droit sortis d'un cont... more info

NME - The Video Blog — Last month it was reported that Lightspeed Champion possesses special musical powers that allows him to "see" the music he writes. Now, it's good to see the furry-hat wearing folk man putting his synesthetic musical abilities to good use on his ... more info

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Panormx — Canblaster is a French Dj, he loves analogic synthesizers. He found inspiration in the eclectic sets of 2 Many Djs, so his mixes go from RUN DMC to Vitalic. This blog is a fan, what about you?Canblaster - Chicken RunCanblaster - Kapongo Danc... more info

Guardian Music — Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Music Weekly. On this week's show, singer-without-portfolio Sufjan Stevens talks to Rosie Swash about why his latest album, the BQE, was inspired by a New York interstate (what else?). He also discusses reli... more info