Guardian Music — Since Air's Moon Safari, Gallic hipsters have doused themselves liberally in l'eau du fromage. Mais, pourquoi?The trailer for Phoenix's new tour documentary, From A Mess To The Masses, is all cold hard urban underpasses and sweaty stage invasions, pa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Phoenix at MSG (more by Andrew St. Clair) "How a small group specialist woodworkers from Versailles, heir to the French touch to the end of the 1990s - and which the singer Thomas March is married to the trendy Sofia... more info

Guardian Music — Playhouse, LiverpoolWhat were the circumstances behind Hitler's rise to power? The usual answer involves rampant inflation, the weakness of the Weimar administration and the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles: though Bertolt Brecht has it tha... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: Matt Bauer Video: 'When I Was a Mockingbird' Highlight: "I shot the video in some of my favorite places in central Kentucky where the song takes place," Matt Bauer tells Spinner. "There are views of the Kentucky R... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum; Barbican; Linbury Studio; Queen Elizabeth Hall, all LondonBased on column inches and lurid images alone, never mind the incalculable online torrent, the big event this week was Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust at English National Opera. Aft... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Hook Ups With her foot in his lap during lunch, Scarlett Johansson , 26, got friendly with Sean Penn , 50, at Cuban restaurant Versailles in L.A. on Monday. We're told... more info

Totally Fuzzy — deballen40 said... 45´s RPM Singles Dossier The Mission - Wasteland b/w Shelter From The Storm / Serpent´s Kiss (Live) / 1969 (Live) (1987) The Silencers - Scottish Rain b/w A Blues For Buddah / Gimme Shelter (1989) White Soxx - Versailles b/w Ve... more info

Guardian Music — Japan's opulent take on glam metal combines rococo riffs with corsets and frills. And it's coming to a town near you ..."People can't help but love beautiful things," said Kamijo, singer of Versailles, when asked to explain his band's popularity. Thi... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Move over Jeff Koons, Takeshi Murakami is currently exhibiting his work in France’s famed Château de Versailles, so expect to see bright shiny pop art and sculptures of (NSFW) Hentai porn next to 18th century portraits. Post from: Crushable The Da... more info

Guardian Music — Lucy Mangan on the people making the headlines in the last seven daysWhat's the beef?Steven and Callum InnesFirst, as Mrs Beeton did not say, catch your cloned prizewinning Holstein cow. Then inseminate it with ordinary bull sperm, export the embryo... more info