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Le Printemps de Bourges is an annual music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

that is held in Bourges

Bourges

Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, during five days. It is now a major event in France and Europe.

The festival was created in 1977 (by Daniel Colling, Alain Meilland and Maurice Frot). With its span of 35 years, it is a high reflect of music tendencies and evolution. Every springtime, thousands of spectators come from all parts of France and foreign countries to see some concerts of the eclectic list. 60 shows, over 200 artists on 13 stages in a week offering the most diverse genres, the best-known artists side along with young musical talents. The ever-growing public is composed essentially of young people (91% are under 35), and over 200,000 people attend the festival each year. Music professionals (over 600 each years) are present to recruit new talents. The festival also attract media professionals (press, TV, radio); they are over 500 each year. A parallel festival is host in the city and is called Les découvertes du Printemps de Bourges and has for aim to present new artists, talents to perform. Many bars and restaurants also host a multitude of gigs through a partnership with le Printemps de Bourges.

1977

(April 6–10)

Au Bonheur des Dames

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, Bernard Lavilliers

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, Catherine Ribeiro

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, Charles Trenet

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, Colette Magny, Dick Annegarn

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, Font et Val, François Béranger, Imbert et Moreau, Jacques Bertin, Jacques Higelin

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, Joan-Pau Verdier, Julos Beaucarne, Leny Escudero, Alain Meilland, Les Frères Jacques, Mama Béa, Michel Bühler, Michèle Bernard, Serge Reggiani

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, Yvan Dautin, Alain Bert

1978

(April 12–16)

Alan Stivell

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, Anne Sylvestre, Areski et Brigitte Fontaine

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, Bernard Lubat, Claude Nougaro

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, Gabriel Yacoub

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, Georges Moustaki

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, Alexandre Révérend, Gilbert Laffaille, Graeme Allwright

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, Jean-Roger Caussimon

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, Lluís Llach

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, Louise Forestier

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, Maria del Mar Bonet

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, Michèle Bernard, Mireille

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, Mona Lisa, Pia Colombo, Renaud

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, Roger Siffer, Steve Waring.
création : "Les Travailleurs de la Nuit" de Maurice Frot et Alain Meilland

1979

(April 12–18)

Alain Souchon

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, Anna Prucnal

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, Cast

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, Charlélie Couture

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, Dan Ar Braz

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, David McNeil, Ganafoul, Guy Béart

Guy Béart

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, Gwendal, Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine

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, Imago

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, Isabelle Mayereau, The Stars

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, magma

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, Alain Meilland, Malicorne

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, Paco Ibañez

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, Plume Latraverse

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, Renaud

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, Téléphone

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, Urban Sax

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, Jacques Higelin

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, Alain Bert.

1980

(April 5–13)

Alain Bashung

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, Ange

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, Angélique Ionatos, Bijou, Etron Fou, Francis Lemarque, Graeme Allwright

Graeme Allwright

, Guy Bedos

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, Idir

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, Jacques Villeret

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, Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

, Luther Allison

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, Marquis de Sade, Maxime Le Forestier

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, Mouloudji, Nino Ferrer

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, Odeurs, Starshooter, Tri Yann

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, Trust

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, Valérie Lagrange.
Strychnine, 12°5. V ... like VIAN (création Maison de la Culture de Bourges Theatre Tournemire-staging Alain Meilland).

1981

(April 4–12)

Bernard Lavilliers

Bernard Lavilliers

, Bill Deraime

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, Édith Butler

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, Edith Nylon

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, Georges Moustaki

Georges Moustaki

, Gilles Langoureau, Golden Gate Quartet, Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine

Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

, Jean Guidoni, Jean-Jacques Milteau

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, Jean-Patrick Capdevielle, Jo Lemaire

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, Julien Clerc

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, Jungle à Ferraille, Michel Boujenah

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, Murray Head

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, Pierre Rapsat

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, Richard Séguin

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, Robert Charlebois

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, Rufus

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. Le Temps des Crises (création Maison de la Culture de Bourges - with Michèle Bernard, Michael Grange, Alain Meilland, Paul Castanier, Daniel Darmezin)

1982

(April 3–12)

Alex Métayer, Brenda Wootton

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, Charlélie Couture

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, Daniel Lavoie

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, Fabienne Thibeault

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, Frank Sinatra

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, Jacques Weber

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, John Williams

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, Julos Beaucarne, Kas Product, Leo Ferré

Léo Ferré

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, The Dogs

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, Little Bob Story, Michel Jonasz

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Nass El Ghiwane

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, Nilda Fernandez

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, The Cure

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, The Opposition

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, Tom Novembre, Yves Duteil

Yves Duteil

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, Yves Montand

Yves Montand

-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

1983

(April 2–10)

Allumette. Angel

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Baden Powell

Baden Powell de Aquino

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, Bernard Lavilliers

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, Catherine Lara

Catherine Lara

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, Dexys Midnight Runners

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, Félix Leclerc

Félix Leclerc

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, Gérard Blanchard, Graeme Allwright

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, Gun Club, Indochine

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, Julien Clerc

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, Kevin Coyne

Kevin Coyne

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, Lili Drop, Malavoi

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, Maxime Le Forestier

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, Miles Davis

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, Sapho

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, Jauks Armal, Touré Kunda

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, U2, Vincent Absil.

1984

(March 31 to April 8)

Castelhemis, Carte de Séjour

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, Claude Nougaro

Claude Nougaro

, Didier Lockwood

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, Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds

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, Eddy Louiss

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, Frank Sinatra

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, Guy Bedos

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, Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

, Linton Kwesi Johnson

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, Paul Personne

Paul Personne

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, Pierre Desproges

Pierre Desproges

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, Raoul Petite, Renaud

Renaud

, Stephan Eicher

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, TC Matic

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, The Nits

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, Valérie Lagrange, William Burroughs, William Sheller

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, Zéro de conduite, The Stunners...

1985

(March 30 to April 8)

Alain Bashung

Alain Bashung

, Angelo Branduardi

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, Charlélie Couture

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, Dead Can Dance

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, Diane Dufresne

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, Etienne Daho

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, Green On Red

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, Jango Edwards

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, Jean-Luc Bideau

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, Joao Bosco

João Bosco

João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco is a noted Brazilian singer-songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist...

, Joe King Carrasco, Juliette Greco

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...

, L'Affaire Louis' Trio, Léo Ferré

Léo Ferré

, Les Cent Printemps des Poètes (creation of the Regional Center of the Song of Bourges, with Gérard Pierron, Alain Meilland, Michel Grange), Marquis de Sade, Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions and his wistful, sometimes melancholic...

, Passion Fodder, Patrick Dupond, Scharif Alaoui, Sharon Evans, The Cocteau Twins, The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

, Alain Bert, Gérard Yon ...

1986

(March 28 to April 6)

Barbara, Bill Hurley, Carmel

Carmel (singer)

Carmel is a British female singer, her eponymous band Carmel uniting bassist Jim Parris, and drummer Gerry Darby.-Biography of Carmel McCourt:...

, Castelhemis, Claude Nougaro

Claude Nougaro

, Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift...

, Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

, Hot Pants

Hot Pants (French band)

Hot Pants is one of the numerous groups involving the French/Latin singer-songwriter Manu Chao and his cousin, drummer Santi. As with all of Chao's music, the group had many influences, most notably The Clash, which contributed to their rockabilly sound. The group sang in English and Spanish...

, I Muvrini

I Muvrini

I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language.-History:The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and Alain Bernardini who were born in the village of Tagliu-Isulacciu in the north of Corsica...

, Indochine

Indochine (band)

, Jad Wio, Juliette

Juliette Noureddine

Juliette Noureddine, better known by her stage name of Juliette, is a French singer, songwriter and composer.-Biography:She was born on September 25, 1962 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Her grandfather, of Algerian origin, arrived in France during the 1920s. Her father, Jacques Noureddine,...

, Level 42

Level 42

Level 42 are an English pop rock and jazz-funk band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s.The band gained fame for their high-calibre musicianship—in particular that of Mark King, whose percussive slap-bass guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the...

, Madness

Madness (band)

In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...

, Niagara

Niagara (band)

Niagara is the name of a French synthpop duo that achieved popularity both in France and Canada from 1986 to 1989. The band, whose was known under the name L'Ombre jaune from 1982 to 1984, was formed in Rennes, France, in 1984, by vocalist Muriel Laporte and keyboardist Daniel Chenevez...

, Orchestre national de jazz, Ray Lema

Ray Lema

Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga, known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese musician born March 30, 1946 in Lufu-Toto, Bas-Congo Province.Lema is a pianist, guitarist, and songwriter. He worked for the National Ballet of Zaire, as it was then called, and in 1979 was invited to the United States by the...

, Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

, Talk Talk

Talk Talk

Talk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World"....

, The Cramps

The Cramps

The Cramps were an American rock band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members...

, The Woodentops

The Woodentops

The Woodentops are a British rock band that have enjoyed critical acclaim and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s.-History:The band formed in 1983 in South London with an initial line-up of Rolo McGinty , Simon Mawby , Alice Thompson , Frank DeFreitas , and Paul Hookham .After a...

, Touré Kunda

Touré Kunda

Touré Kunda is a Senegalese musical group whose 20-year career encompasses recordings in six languages and collaborations with well-known musicians such as Carlos Santana...

, Véronique Sanson

Véronique Sanson

Véronique Sanson is a two-time Victoires de la Musique Award-winning French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer with an avid following in her native country.She brings a very personal vocal style to the singing of French pop songs: Her voice has a very strong vibrato.Unlike...

, Renaud

Renaud

, Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

1987

(April 17–26)

Alpha Blondy

Alpha Blondy

Alpha Blondy is a reggae singer and international recording artist. Alpha Blondy was born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro, Côte d'Ivoire. He sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and English, and sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew...

, Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

, Bérurier Noir

Bérurier Noir

Bérurier noir is a French punk band formed in Paris in 1983 by Loran , François and Dédé . They called themselves "noir" for the color of mourning and for anarchy and "Bérurier" after the character from the novels of Frédéric Dard...

, Charles Trenet

Charles Trenet

Charles Trenet was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s...

, Chet Baker

Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

, Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

, Erasure

Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...

, Fawzy Al-Aiedy, Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...

, Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

, John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, Kassav'

Kassav'

Kassav' is a Francophone zouk band formed in Paris in 1979. The core members of the band are Jocelyne Béroard, Jacob Desvarieux, Jean-Philippe Marthély, Patrick St. Eloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur and Georges Décimus...

, Kent, Murray Head

Murray Head

Murray Seafield Saint-George Head is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok" and his album Say It Ain't So...

, Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions and his wistful, sometimes melancholic...

, Pierre Desproges

Pierre Desproges

Pierre Desproges was a French humorist. He was famous for his elaborate, eloquent and above all, virulent diatribes criticizing anything and everything....

, Ray Charles

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

Rita Mitsouko, The Communards

The Communards

The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988. They are most famous for their cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" as well as "Never Can Say Goodbye".-History:...

, The Pogues

The Pogues

The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...

, The Young Gods

The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss post-industrial band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer. Their instrumentation often includes sampled electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and other samples. The lyrics are depicted in English, French and...

, William Sheller

William Sheller

, The Wild Ones...

1988

(April 1–10)

Arno

Arno Hintjens

Arno Hintjens , usually referred to as Arno, is a Belgian artist born in Ostend. He was the frontman of the group TC Matic. After the band split in 1986 he went solo....

, Barry White

Barry White

Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...

, Boy George

Boy George

Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...

, Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

, Deacon Blue

Deacon Blue

Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band formed in Glasgow during 1985. Their name was taken from the title of the Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond....

, Def Leppard

Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...

, Elli Medeiros

Elli Medeiros

Elli Medeiros is a singer and actress .- The Stinky Toys :Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the punk band The Stinky Toys....

, Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, Jean-Louis Aubert

Jean-Louis Aubert

Jean-Louis Aubert is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has also composed music for the cinema and for television, including the soundtrack for the film I've Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas .In 1976, he co-founded the rock band Téléphone...

, Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...

, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, Mano Negra

Mano Negra

Mano Negra was a music band in France, during 1987–1995, fronted by Manu Chao.The band, founded in 1987 by Chao, his brother Antoine, and his cousin Santiago Casariego in Paris, France, was very influential in Europe during the early 1990s. Although it reached mainstream success in countries...

(replaced by Les Casse pieds), Les garçons bouchers, Les Thugs

Les Thugs

Les Thugs are a punk band from France. The band were formed in 1983 with five members and were soon reduced to four in the same year: Eric Sourice on guitar and lead vocals, Thierry Meanard on guitar, Christophe Sourice on drums, and Gerald Chabaud on bass up until 1983. Chabaud was replaced by...

, Les Wampas

Les Wampas

Les Wampas are a French punk rock/psychobilly band, who refer more exactly to their music as "Yé-yé-punk". The band was formed in Paris in 1983.-Les Wampas vous aiment:...

, Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.-Early life:...

, Michel Petrucciani

Michel Petrucciani

Michel Petrucciani was a French jazz pianist.-Biography:...

, Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...

, Noir désir

Noir Désir

Noir Désir was a French rock band from Bordeaux. They were active during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and have had two albums certified double platinum in France and three certified gold. They have been an influence on numerous French musicians including Cali, Louise Attaque and Miossec...

, Pigalle, Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

, Sixun, Stephan Eicher

Stephan Eicher

, The Christians, Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish pop rock band that formed in the 1980s. They scored a number of hits in the British charts and around the world. The band is composed of Marti Pellow , Tommy Cunningham , Graeme Clark and Neil Mitchell...

, The Wild Ones, Marillion

Marillion

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...

, Mama's Boys

Mama's Boys

Mama's Boys were a 1980s hard rock/heavy metal group from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland featuring the three McManus brothers Pat, a.k.a. 'The Professor", , John , Tommy . Later in their career they became a four-piece adding Rick Chase on vocals in 1985 who was later replaced by Keith Murrell...

, MSG

MSG

MSG or msg may refer to:* Monosodium glutamate, a common food additive** See also glutamic acid for MSG's use in food flavoring and health concerns* A common abbreviation for message* Madison Square Garden, a sports arena in New York City...

, Little Bob Story

1989

(April 1–9)

Arthur H

Arthur H

Arthur Higelin , better known under his stage name Arthur H , is a pianist, songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances - four of his albums were recorded live - and remains relatively little-known in the English-speaking world.-Career:He is the son of the French...

, Bratsch

Bratsch (band)

Bratsch are a French-based music ensemble using influences from Roma music, klezmer, jazz and many diverse folk traditions. The group was formed in 1975 by guitarist Dan Gharibian and violinist Bruno Girard, and has released more than ten albums to date...

, Jean-Jacques Burnel

Jean-Jacques Burnel

J. J. Burnel , is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist with the British rock band The Stranglers.-Life and career:...

, Claude Nougaro

Claude Nougaro

, Dee Nasty

Dee Nasty

Dee Nasty is a DJ, producer, and Hip-Hop pioneer in Paris, France. Dee Nasty, the Parisian father of Hip Hop, is one of Radio Nova’s original DJs. Dee Nasty is best known for producing France’s first Hip Hop record.- Career :...

, Dr. John

Dr. John

Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...

, Elmer Food Beat, Front 242

Front 242

Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. They are known for being the premier pioneer of electronic body music and as a major influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.-Formation:...

, Kat Onoma, Khaled, Kool & The Gang

Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...

, Mano Negra

Mano Negra

, Mona Mur

Mona Mur

Mona Mur is a German vocalist - born Sabine Bredy in Hamburg to Polish parents, 1960.In 1982 she first collaborated with FM Einheit, Marc Chung, and Alex Hacke, all of Einstürzende Neubauten. As "Mona Mur und die Mieter " they recorded the 12" Jeszcze Polska...

, Les Négresses Vertes

Les Negresses Vertes

Les Négresses Vertes, formed in 1987, is a French music group that is best described as a fusion of world music and some aspects of alternative rock. Their tracks often feature acoustic guitar and accordion, as well as some tracks containing many other 'traditional' instruments such as piano and...

, Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

Nina Simone

Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

Papa Wemba

Papa Wemba was born Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in 1949 in Lubefu . He is a Congolese rumba musician, one of Africa's most popular musicians, and prominent in World music.-Zaiko Langa Langa:...

Polyphonic Size

Polyphonic Size is a Belgian New Wave band founded in 1979 in Brussels by Roger-Marc Vande Voorde. Mixing electric guitars and synthesizers with French and English lyrics , most of Polyphonic Size records were produced by Jean-Jacques Burnel, from The Stranglers.-1979-1984:The first Polyphonic...

, Road Runners, Smith & Mighty

Smith & Mighty

Smith & Mighty are a Drum and bass/Trip hop group from Bristol, consisting of Rob Smith and Ray Mighty. Their first releases, in the late 1980s, were breakbeat covers of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "Walk on By"...

, Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

, Têtes Raides, The Inmates

The Inmates

The Inmates are a British garage rock/pub rock band, formed after the split up of The Flying Tigers in 1977. In the early 1980s, they had a medium sized international hit with a cover of The Standells' "Dirty Water", and a UK Top 40 hit with "The Walk"...

, Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five year career, first with his band Mink DeVille and later on his own, Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. He worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary...

, Womack & Womack.

1990

(April 11–16)

Albert Collins

Albert Collins

Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the US, Europe, Japan and Australia...

, Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....

, Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

, Gill Dougherty

Gill Dougherty

Gill Dougherty is a French singer and song writer, heavily influenced by 70s and 80s rock, who was born April 1961 in Toulouse.At the end of the seventies, punk rock was sweeping through France and he found inspiration with The Jam, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The B-52's, and The Ramones In France, he...

, Gipsy Kings

Gipsy Kings

The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

, Le cri de la mouche, Les Sheriff, Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...

, Muriel Robin, Noir désir

Noir Désir

, Norma Loy, Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...

, Pierre Palmade

Pierre Palmade

Pierre Palmade is a French actor and comedian.-Biography:He has done dubbing for the films, Pédale douce and Pédale dure...

, Public Enemy, Ray Lema

Ray Lema

, Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...

, Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

, Urban Dance Squad

Urban Dance Squad

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986...

, Wasaburo Fukuda, Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

, Zebda

Zebda

Zebda is a French music group from Toulouse known for its political activism and its wide variety of musical styles. The group, which was formed in 1985, consisted of seven musicians of diverse nationalities, and the themes of much of their music involved political and social justice, the status...

1991

(April 30 to May 5)

Arthur H

Arthur H

, Bel Canto

Bel Canto (band)

Bel Canto is a Norwegian music duo, originally a trio, fronted by Anneli Drecker, and signed originally to Crammed Discs.-Biography:Their first two records were licensed to Nettwerk Records in Canada and its second album was licensed to IRS/MCA Records...

, Carla Bley

Carla Bley

Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...

, Eddy Mitchell

Eddy Mitchell

Eddy Mitchell is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires , taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine...

, Elliott Murphy

Elliott Murphy

Elliott James Murphy is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, producer and journalist living in Paris.-Biography:Elliott James Murphy, Jr. was born in Rockville Centre, New York to a show business family...

, Geoffrey Oryema

Geoffrey Oryema

Geoffrey Oryema is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life...

, Guesch Patti

Guesch Patti

Guesch Patti, , born Patricia Porasse, is a French singer.-Early life:Patti was born in Paris, France. She chose her artist name from the nickname she had as a child Guesch...

, House Of Love

The House of Love

The House of Love is an English alternative rock band. Formed in 1986, the band rose to prominence in the UK as a leading indie rock band in 1988 and split up in 1993, eventually reforming a decade later in 2003. The band is best known for its detailed psychedelic guitar sound and for the...

, IAM

IAM (band)

IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, created in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton , Shurik'n , Khéops , Imhotep , and Kephren . 'IAM' has several meanings, including 'Invasion Arrivée de Mars'...

, Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville

James William Somerville is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice...

, Juliette Greco

Juliette Gréco

, Les naufragés, Les Négresses Vertes

Les Negresses Vertes

, Lili Boniche

Lili Boniche

Lili Boniche , born to a Sephardic Jewish family in the Kasbah area of Algiers, was a singer of Andalusian-Arab music. He died in Paris...

, Manu Dibango

Manu Dibango

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, Marcel et son orchestre, New Model Army

New Model Army (band)

New Model Army are an English rock band, who were formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980. They have been variously classified by Allmusic as post-punk and alternative rock.-Overview:...

, Patrick Bruel

Patrick Bruel

Patrick Bruel is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of Algerian Jewish descent.-Biography:...

, Supreme NTM

Suprême NTM

Suprême NTM is a French hip hop group formed in 1989 in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The group comprises rappers Joey Starr and Kool Shen...

, Treponem Pal

Treponem Pal

Treponem Pal is a French industrial metal band formed in 1986. Early tracks such as "Embodiment of Frustration" mix together the relentless hypnotic heaviness popularized by Swans and bursts of thrash metal and hardcore...

, UB 40, Wim Mertens

Wim Mertens

Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.-Life and work:Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium...

, Zap Mama

Zap Mama

Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne. Daulne says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music...

, Zebda

Zebda

1992

(April 28 to May 3)

Charlélie Couture

Charlélie Couture

Charlélie Couture is a French musician and multi-disciplinary artist, who has recorded over 25 albums and 17 film soundtracks, and has held a number of exhibitions of paintings and photographs...

, Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys is a part African-American, and Puerto Rican American, singer and songwriter, transversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul.-Career:...

, Henri Salvador

Henri Salvador

Henri Salvador was a French Caribbean singer.-Biography:Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Indian from the Caribbean, were both from Guadeloupe, French West Indies...

, Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

, Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

's Invaders Of The Heart, Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

, Juliette Greco

Juliette Gréco

, Kat Onoma, Madredeus

Madredeus

Madredeus is a Portuguese band. Their music combines traditional Portuguese music with influences of modern folk music...

, Mecano

Mecano

Mecano was a Spanish pop band whose debut coincided with La Movida Madrileña , a sociocultural movement that occurred in Madrid, Spain during the 1980s...

, My Bloody Valentine, Silencers

The Silencers (band)

The Silencers are a Scottish rock band formed in London in 1986 by two ex-members of the post-punk outfit Fingerprintz. Their music is characterized by a melodic blend of pop, folk and traditional Celtic influences...

, Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...

, Stephan Eicher

Stephan Eicher

, Taraf de Haidouks, The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South were an English alternative rock group formed at the end of the 1980s by two former members of Hull group The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. The duo were initially joined by Sean Welch , Dave Stead and Dave Rotheray , all of whom stayed with the group throughout...

, The Pogues

The Pogues

, The Ramones, Yma Sumac

Yma Súmac

Yma Sumac was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.Yma...

, Zebda

Zebda

...

1993

(April 20–25)

Au P'tit Bonheur, Baaba Maal

Baaba Maal

Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.-Biography:Born 12 November 1953...

, Blankass, Burning Heads

Burning Heads

Burning Heads is a melodic hardcore punk rock band from Orleans, France. The group formed in the late '80s, and started out releasing records independently before signing with Play It Again Sam in 1994. They became more popular in America with the release of their 1998 record, Be One with the...

, Calvin Russell

Calvin Russell (musician)

Calvin Russell was an American blues rock/roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.Born Calvert Russell Kosler, at the age of twelve he started to learn guitar and at thirteen joined a band called 'The Cavemen'. In 1989 he met Patrick Mathe of the French record label New Rose...

, Cesária Évora

Cesária Évora

Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

, Fabulous Trobadors

Fabulous Trobadors

Fabulous Trobadors are a band from Toulouse, France, founded in 1987. They have developed their own distinctive style based on Occitan folk music and the rhythms of northeastern Brazil....

, Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...

, Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son . He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann...

, Jean-Louis Aubert

Jean-Louis Aubert

, Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as "Blufunk", which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms...

, Khaled, La Souris Déglinguée, Les Innocents

Les Innocents

Les Innocents was a French rock band, quartet led by Jean-Philippe Nataf and Jean-Christophe Urbain from 1982 to 1999. Former members are Rico and Pierre Morin .-Biography:...

, Massilia Sound System

Massilia Sound System

Massilia Sound System is a reggae band formed in Marseille, France in 1984. They developed a Provençal hybrid version of reggae, rub-a-dub and raggamuffin with lyrics in the French and Occitan languages, sometimes referred to as trobamuffin , though they have also performed in Portuguese and Italian...

, Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: La boîte de jazz, Joueurs de blues and Les vacances au bord de la mer....

, Sade

Sade (band)

Sade is a British smooth jazz band that formed in 1983, named for Nigerian lead singer Sade Adu. Their music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock....

, Sawt El Atlas, Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.Two of Vega's songs reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner"...

, The Kinks

The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...

, Tom Novembre, Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi"...

, Vaya con dios

Vaya Con Dios (band)

Vaya Con Dios is a Belgian musical group founded in 1986 by Dani Klein, Dirk Schoufs, and Willy Lambregt . Their name is Spanish for "Go with God"...

, Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille

1994

(April 19–24)

Alain Chamfort

Alain Chamfort

Alain Chamfort, born Alain Le Govic, is a French singer of Breton origin, born on 2 March 1949 in Paris.He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice...

, Arno

Arno Hintjens

Arno Hintjens , usually referred to as Arno, is a Belgian artist born in Ostend. He was the frontman of the group TC Matic. After the band split in 1986 he went solo....

, The Boo Radleys

The Boo Radleys

-Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:-External links:* * * * * * by Laurent Orseau * *...

, Fabe

Fabe (French rapper)

Fabrice "Fabe" is a French rapper from Barbès, a neighborhood of Paris. He is one of the founders of "Scred Connexion", an underground French rap group. He started rapping around 1991 releasing his first work as early as 1995. He is mostly known for his thought-provoking and clever use of lyrics...

, Grant Lee Buffalo

Grant Lee Buffalo

Grant Lee Buffalo is a rock band based in Los Angeles, California, consisting of Grant-Lee Phillips , Paul Kimble and Joey Peters . All three were previously members of another Los Angeles band, Shiva Burlesque.-Career:...

, IAM

IAM (band)

, Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

, Jean-Louis Murat

Jean-Louis Murat

Not to be confused with Jean-Paul MaratJean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire.- Albums :...

, Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...

, Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier , is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz...

, Thugs, Louis Chedid

Louis Chedid

Louis Chedid is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese origin.-Biography:Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid ....

, Lucky Peterson

Lucky Peterson

Lucky Peterson is an American musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. He plays guitar and keyboards...

, Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...

, Mano Solo

Mano Solo

Mano Solo , born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte....

, Morphine

Morphine

Morphine is a potent opiate analgesic medication and is considered to be the prototypical opioid. It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more...

, No One Is Innocent

No One Is Innocent

"No One Is Innocent" was the fifth single by the British punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released on 30 June 1978. The Sex Pistols had split up early in 1978, losing bassist Sid Vicious and original lead vocalist Johnny Rotten...

, Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha is an Algerian singer and activist based in France who has been described as "sonically adventurous." His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï.-Early life:Taha was born in 1958 in Sig , Algeria, although a second source suggests he was...

, Rita Mitsouko, Roadrunners, Surrenders, Texas

Texas (band)

Texas are a Scottish pop band from Bearsden, near Glasgow, Scotland. They were founded by Johnny McElhone in 1986 and feature Sharleen Spiteri on lead vocals. Texas made their performing debut in March 1988 at Scotland's University of Dundee...

, The Breeders

The Breeders

The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...

, The Cocteau Twins, Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen is a French singer-songwriter.During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres...

, Tonton David

Tonton David

Tonton David is a French Reggae singer born in Réunion with a turbulent childhood in a suburb of Paris. He left his family at 14, and managed to make a career in music with powerful and political lyrics.-References:...

, US3

US3

Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. On their debut album, Hand on the Torch, Us3 used samples from the Blue Note Records catalogue, all originally produced by...

1995

(April 26–1 May)

Alain Souchon

Alain Souchon

Alain Souchon is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films.-Profile:...

, Ben Harper

Ben Harper

Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents...

, De Palmas, Deus

Deus

Deus is Latin for "god" or "deity".Latin deus and dīvus "divine", are descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon...

, Enzo Enzo, Frank Black

Frank Black

Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...

, Gun

Gun

A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...

, Jad Wio, John Mayall

John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE is an English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, whose musical career spans over fifty years...

, Les Négresses Vertes

Les Negresses Vertes

Lofofora

Lofofora is a French metal band from Paris. They write songs of protest and denounce some of the failings of the French society. For example, the problems in the underdeveloped outskirts, the hypocrisy of the politics of the French extreme right leagues. Among their titles are "Buvez du cul" and...

, Machine Head

Machine Head (band)

Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. Formed on October 12, 1991, the group was founded by Robb Flynn and Adam Duce. There have been 4 member changes since their inception. The current lineup of the band comprises Flynn , Duce , ex-Vio-Lence guitarist Phil Demmel ,...

, MC Solaar

MC Solaar

MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

PJ Harvey, Simple Minds

Simple Minds

Skatalites Suicidal Tendencies

Suicidal Tendencies

Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...

Supreme NTM

Suprême NTM

Suprême NTM is a French hip hop group formed in 1989 in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The group comprises rappers Joey Starr and Kool Shen...

Therapy?

Therapy? is an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar...

Tricky

Tricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...

, Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

, Misaal ..

1996

(April 16–21)

Assassin

Assassin (rap crew)

Assassin is a French hardcore rap group formed in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris. The group was formed in 1985 by Rockin' Squat and Solo. Later, Doctor L joined them, as well as DJ Clyde...

, Big Soul, Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine

, Ceux qui marchent debout, Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...

, DJ Gilb R, Elliott Murphy

Elliott Murphy

, Everything But The Girl

Everything but the Girl

Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...

, Fabe

Fabe (French rapper)

, The Fleshtones

The Fleshtones

The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976.- 1976-1979 :The Fleshtones were formed in 1976 in Whitestone, New York by Keith Streng and Marek Pakulski The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976.- 1976-1979 :The...

, Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

, Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

, Ménélik

Ménélik

Ménélik, now MNLK , is a French rapper.-Biography:He went to France at the age of nine. Then he met MC Solaar and started to write songs for artists such as No Sé, DJ Jimmy Jay and RPM. In 1995, he released his first album entitled Phenomenelik and participated in Solaar's concerts...

, Miossec, Orchestre National de Barbès, St Germain, Silmarils, Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Sting, Tindersticks

Tindersticks

Tindersticks are an Indie rock band from Nottingham, England formed in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples took on a solo career. The band reunited briefly in 2006, but more permanently the following year...

, Transglobal Underground

Transglobal underground

Transglobal Underground is a London-based music collective who specialise in a fusion of western, oriental and African music styles...

, Zachary Richard

Zachary Richard

Zachary Richard is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.-Biography:...

, Treize...and so many more

1997

(April 15–20)

ACWL

ACWL

ACWL is a French rock group with pop/goth, metal and new wave influences.- Members :* Céline : bass, vocals ;* Patrick : drums ;* Jean : guitar, vocals, keyboards, programming, sitar....

, Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...

, Autour de Lucie

Autour de Lucie

Autour de Lucie is a French pop rock band, consisting of vocalist Valérie Leulliot, guitarist Olivier Durand and bassist Fabrice Dumont. Their albums are released in France on Le Village Vert, and in North America on Nettwerk....

, Cut Killer

Cut Killer

Anouar Hajoui better known as DJ Cut Killer or just Cut Killer is a renowned French DJ of Moroccan origin with a versatile repertoire of hip hop and rap....

& Hasheem, DJ Cam

DJ Cam

DJ Cam is a French DJ. His tunes are almost entirely a hybrid of both hip-hop and jazz music, and is presented in an abstract manner. His first LP was Underground Vibes in 1994, and was revolutionary for its time, featuring familiar jazz samples and many vibe samples and heavy hip-hop influences...

, Eels

Eels (band)

Eels is an American indie rock band formed by singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E...

, FFF, Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, Khaled, Les Innocents

Les Innocents

Les Innocents was a French rock band, quartet led by Jean-Philippe Nataf and Jean-Christophe Urbain from 1982 to 1999. Former members are Rico and Pierre Morin .-Biography:...

, Machine Head

Machine Head (band)

, Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

, Mass Hysteria

Mass Hysteria (band)

- History :Created in 1993, the band recorded their first album, Le Bien-être et la Paix , only four years later. After this album, Mass Hysteria gained an important audience for their kind of music in France.In the media, Mass Hysteria is known for some controversies and...

, Neg' Marrons, Noir Désir

Noir Désir

, Paris Combo

Paris Combo

Paris Combo is a musical group based in Paris, France, that has an eclectic style, blending elements from the traditional French chanson, American jazz and swing, Roma music and North African music. The group identifies itself as a world music group...

, Placebo

Placebo (band)

Placebo are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bass guitarist Stefan Olsdal. The band was joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was later replaced by Steve Hewitt after conflicts with Molko. Hewitt left the band in October 2007 and...

, Stomy Bugsy

Stomy Bugsy

Stomy Bugsy is a French rapper from Sarcelles.Born of parents from Cape Verde, Duarte helped found hip hop group Ministere AMER, however in 1996 he decided to launch his own solo career...

, Suede

Suede (band)

Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...

, Supergrass

Supergrass

Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....

, The Little Rabbits, The Wailers

Wailers Band

The Wailers Band are a reggae band formed by the remaining members of Bob Marley & The Wailers‎, following the death of Bob Marley in 1981.-Previous Wailers' incarnations:The Wailers‎ started as Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh...

, Toots & The Maytals

Toots & the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called simply The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and reggae vocal groups. According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, "The Maytals were key figures in reggae music...

, Trust

Trust (band)

Trust is a French rock band closely associated with both AC/DC and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.-History:Trust was founded in 1977 by:* Bernard "Bernie" Bonvoisin * Norbert "Nono" Krief...

, Warren G

Warren G

Warren G , is an American West Coast rapper and hip hop producer. He is also Dr. Dre's half-brother.His biggest hit is the song "Regulate" with Nate Dogg released in 1994...

, Yuri Buenaventura.

1998

(April 15–19)

Angra

Angra (band)

Angra is a Brazilian metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.- Biography :...

Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer.-Biography:...

, Dolly

Dolly (French band)

Dolly is a rock band from Nantes, France. The group is popular in France but less well-known elsewhere. Dolly's vocalist Emmanuelle Monet has appeared in many collaborations, including a song together with Apocalyptica on the single "Wie weit/How far/En Vie"...

, Dream Theater

Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...

, Eagle-Eye Cherry

Eagle-Eye Cherry

Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry is a Swedish musician of African-American descent.-Life and career:Cherry was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of African American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish painter/textile artist Monika "Moki" Cherry . He is half-brother of singer Neneh Cherry, his mother's...

, Faudel

Faudel

Faudel , born Faudel Belloua on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French singer of Algerian descent.-Early years:...

, Fonky Family

Fonky Family

La Fonky Family are a French hip hop group from Marseille. They are composed of four rappers, Le Rat Luciano, Menzo, Don Choa and Sat, the producer Pone, DJ Djel, the dancer Blaze, the singer Karima, Flex Nandell, and manager Fafa.Fonky Family made their first appearance on the French hip hop...

, Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...

, Green Velvet, Greg Brown, IAM

IAM (band)

, Jamel

Jamel

Jamel is a tiny German village in the municipality of Gägelow, in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The village consists of ten houses.-History:...

, Jay Jay Johanson, Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

, Lee Perry, Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

, Massive Attack

Massive Attack

Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

, M

Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...

, MC Solaar

MC Solaar

MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....

, Pierpoljak, Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...

, The Cramps

The Cramps

, Vanden Plas

Vanden Plas

Vanden Plas is the name of a company of coachbuilders who produced bodies for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. Latterly the name became a top-end luxury model designation for cars from various subsidiaries of British Leyland and the Rover Group.-Belgium:It originated in Belgium in...

...

1999

(April 13–18)

Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...

, Atari Teenage Riot

Atari Teenage Riot

'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...

, Calexico, Cassius

Cassius (band)

Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

, Clotaire K, Deus

Deus

, Dominique A

Dominique A

Dominique Ané , better known as "Dominique A," is a French songwriter and singer.-Early life:Born on the 6 October 1968 in Provins, France, Dominique Ané is the only child of a teacher and a homemaker. He was passionate about literature and music from a young age...

, Ekova

Ekova

Ekova is a French-based trio, headed by American-born Dierdre Dubois, who originated the name. "Its roots are in echo, and ova, signifying the feminine side," she explains. "But it's not supposed to have a literal meaning, just a beautiful sound...

, Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...

, Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti....

, Freestylers

Freestylers

The Freestylers are a British electronic music group, generally fitting into the breakbeat genre. Recently their style has incorporated more of a drumstep sound, more in line with The Prodigy and other such artists.-Career:...

, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...

, Les Ogres de Barback, Les Rythmes Digitales, Les Wriggles

Les Wriggles

Les Wriggles is a French music group. The group's members are Christophe Gendreau, Stéphane Gourdon, Frédéric Volovitch. Until September 2006 the group had 5 members, Antoine Réjasse, and Franck Zerbib have left the group to pursue solo careers...

, Matmatah

Matmatah

thumb|240pxMatmatah were a popular French rock band. Their popularity also extends to India, where they have played in many rock shows in Mumbai , Pondicherry and Chennai .-History:...

, Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas is a Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and Western electronic music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne" . Her music has been influenced by many styles including Arabic, hip hop, drum 'n' bass and reggae.Atlas began her career as part of...

, Orbital

Orbital (band)

Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...

, Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha

, Rinôçérôse

Rinôçérôse

Rinôçérôse is a French band founded by Jean-Philippe Freu and Patrice Carrié that mixes rock music and electronic dance music. The duo of musicians also work as psychologists, calling themselves, "Psychologists by day, musicians by night". They compose music in English, French, and German...

, Silverchair

Silverchair

Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

, Sinsemilia

Sinsemilia

Sinsemilia, also known as Sinsé, is a reggae band that was formed in Grenoble, France in 1990. The name of the group is very similar to the cannabis plants "Sinsemilla," which are the unfertilised, thus seedless, female plants....

, Soulfly

Soulfly

Soulfly is a heavy metal band formed in 1997 based in Phoenix, Arizona. The original lyrical content revolved around spirituality and religious themes, with later albums encompassing other themes including war, violence, aggression, hatred and anger. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max...

, The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature...

, Tryo

Tryo

Tryo is a French language 'unplugged' reggae acoustic band, popular in Europe and in Quebec, with three French guitarists, a percussionist, and a producer: Guizmo, Christophe Mali, Manu Eveno, Daniel "Danielito" Bravo and Bibou....

, Urban Dance Squad

Urban Dance Squad

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986...

, Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...

, Zebda

Zebda

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2000

(April 19–24)

113, Cheb Mami

Cheb Mami

Ahmed Khelifati Mohamed better known by his stage name Cheb Mami , is an Algerian-born raï singer...

, Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill

, Day One

Day One (band)

Day One is an English band from Bristol, consisting of Phelim Byrne and Matthew Hardwidge. They were originally signed to Virgin/Melancolik, the record label started by Massive Attack. Their début album, Ordinary Man, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It peaked at #70 in the UK Albums Chart...

, Dionysos

Dionysos (French band)

Dionysos is a French rock band formed in 1993 in Valence, Drôme; they formed at their lycée. They perform songs in both French and English, and have released six studio albums. They are well known in France for their surrealism and eccentricity....

, Gomez

Gomez (band)

Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball , Paul "Blackie" Blackburn , Tom Gray , Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock . The band is distinguished for having three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments...

, Howie B, Idir

Idir

Hamid Cheriet better known by his stage name Idir is an Algerian musician of Berber origin.- Biography :...

, Jamel

Jamel

Jamel is a tiny German village in the municipality of Gägelow, in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The village consists of ten houses.-History:...

, Jazzanova

Jazzanova

Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Jürgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer. Formed in 1995, the group is one of the foremost proponents of the nu-jazz, chillout and jazz house styles of music...

, K2R Riddim

K2R Riddim

K2R Riddim is a French Reggae band from Cergy-Pontoise, France; who began their journey in Reggae/Dub/Ska music in 1992. K2R plays mostly reggae and Dub music; and primarily sing in French.-Band members:*Loïc - Lead Vocals*Lord Bitum - Lead Vocals...

, Katherine, L7

L7 (band)

L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles, that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.-History:...

, La Brigade, La Ruda Salska, Lorca

Lorca

Lorca is a municipality and town in the autonomous community of Murcia in southeastern Spain, 36 miles southwest of the city of Murcia. It had a population of 92,694 in 2010, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second-largest surface area in Spain with...

, Lou Reed

Lou Reed

, Massive Attack

Massive Attack

, Mad Professor

Mad Professor

Mad Professor is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or...

, Marcel et son orchestre, Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;...

, Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...

, Saian Supa Crew

Saïan Supa Crew

Saïan Supa Crew is a French rap collective composed of three groups: Explicit Samouraï, OFX and Simple Spirit. The name 'Saïan Supa' is a reference to the Super Saiyan from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z/GT....

, Sergent Garcia, The Hacker

The Hacker

Michel Amato, better known by the stage name The Hacker, is a French electroclash and techno producer who has worked extensively with Miss Kittin. His work has been influenced by Electro artists like Kraftwerk, New Wave artists such as The Cure and Depeche Mode, as well as the French rave scene of...

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2001

(April 17–22)

100% Collègues, Add N to (X)

Add N to (X)

Add N to were a three-piece British band specializing in electronic music performed on analogue synthesizers, formed in London in 1994.The original band members were Andrew Aveling, Barry Smith and Ann Shenton...

, Bebel Gilberto

Bebel Gilberto

Bebel Gilberto is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque...

, Bertrand Burgalat

Bertrand Burgalat

Bertrand Burgalat is a French musician, composer and producer.- Background :Bertrand Burgalat was born in the Corsican town of Bastia in 1963...

, Bob Log III

Bob Log III

Bob Log III is an American slide guitar one-man band. During performances, he plays old Silvertone archtop guitars, wears a full body human cannonball suit, and a pilot's helmet wired to a telephone receiver, which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums. The spectacle has been...

, Disiz la Peste

Disiz la Peste

Sérigne M'Baye Gueye, , better known by his stage name Disiz, , is a French rapper and actor. Born to a Senegalese father and Belgian mother, he grew up listening to rap.He was a great fan of the French rap groups NTM and IAM...

, Fear Factory

Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...

, Fun Lovin' Criminals

Fun Lovin' Criminals

The Fun Lovin' Criminals is an American alternative hip hop / alternative rock group from New York City. Their musical style is primarily eclectic, covering styles such as hip hop, rock, funk, blues and jazz. Their songs often deal with life in New York City, as well as urban life in general...

, Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo, formed in 1999 in London, England, that consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ....

, Henri Salvador

Henri Salvador

, Isolée

Isolée

Isolée is microhouse artist Rajko Müller. Isolée is a minimalist house producer whose music is reminisent of indie electronic pop music of the early eighties and ambient techno from a decade on. Isolée is credited with creating the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts...

, IV My People, Keren Ann

Keren Ann

Keren Ann Zeidel is a singer-songwriter-composer-producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv and New York City. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements.-Life and career:...

, Le son du peuple, Muse

Muse (band)

Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...

, Placebo

Placebo (band)

, Pole

Pole (musician)

Pole is the artistic name of Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre as well as dubtronica.-History:Pole took his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996...

, Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band with classicaland minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound, and frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals and use of bowed guitar. In January 2010, the band announced that they will be on hiatus. Since then, it has since been announced...

, Sawt El Atlas, The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

, Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being bandmembers of Talking Heads.-Biography:...

, Tortoise

Tortoise (band)

Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1990.-Music:Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in...

2002

(April 9–14)

The Cranberries

The Cranberries

The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The band currently consists of O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler...

, Tarmac

Tarmac

Tarmac is a type of road surface. Tarmac refers to a material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1901...

, Miossec, Sinclair, Luke

Luke (French band)

Luke is a French rock band. The group was formed in Aquitaine in 1998 when Thomas Boulard joined the group Spring, consisting of Christophe Plantier and François Jugé. The band's name is derived from the American movie Cool Hand Luke. In 1999, Luke composed a number of demos and a seven track CD...

, Pleymo

Pleymo

Pleymo is a French nu metal and rapcore band. Pleymo have sold over 100,000 albums to date. The band's name apparently originates from the lead singer once having a haircut as a child that was similar to that of Playmobil figures....

, Bénabar

Bénabar

Bénabar is a French songwriter and singer, who could be compared to Vincent Delerm and other singers from his generation. As many of them he was influenced by Georges Brassens, Renaud, Jacques Higelin and also Tom Waits. His songs describe day-to-day life events with humour and a tender cynicism...

, Mass Hysteria

Mass Hysteria (band)

, Susheela Raman

Susheela Raman

Susheela Raman is an acclaimed British Tamil musician. Raman has released five albums since 2001. Her debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.-Early years:...

, Christophe

Christophe (singer)

Christophe is a French singer and songwriter. He was born Daniel Bevilacqua on 13 October 1945 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne to Italian parents....

, Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...

, Saian Supa Crew

Saïan Supa Crew

, Bumcello, Garbage

Garbage (band)

Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...

, Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...

, Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine

, La Ruda Salska, Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

, Jean-Louis Murat

Jean-Louis Murat

, Kery James

Kery James

Alix Mathurin better known as Kery James, is a French rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer and record producer, who was born in West Indies from Haitian parents. His mother raised him in Orly, a suburb of Paris. Nowadays with his three solo albums, he is one of the most respected French rappers. The...

, Gotan Project

Gotan Project

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal , Eduardo Makaroff , and Christoph H. Müller .-History:...

2003

(April 22–27)

Massive Attack

Massive Attack

, Placebo

Placebo (band)

, Dionysos

Dionysos (French band)

Beck, Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as "Blufunk", which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms...

, Mickey 3D

Mickey 3D

Mickey 3D is a French rock group from Montbrison that was founded in 1997 when Mickaël Furnon alias Mickey and Aurélien Joanin alias Jojo parted from the local group 3Dk. They were supported by the group Louise Attaque, which had them play before their concerts. In 1999 they recorded their first...

, Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz

Jason Thomas Mraz , also known as Mr. AZ and Mr. Raz, is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, "Mr. A-Z", in 2005, that Mraz achieved...

, Death in Vegas

Death in Vegas

Death in Vegas are a psychedelic rock and electronic rock band from the United Kingdom, comprising two permanent members: Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes...

, Superbus

Superbus (band)

Superbus is a five-piece French pop/rock band formed in 1999.-History:After a trip to the United States to perfect her English in 1999, Jennifer Ayache went looking for musicians to make a group. She met Michel Giovannetti, a guitarist, and François Even, a bassist, who already knew each other from...

, Capleton

Capleton

Capleton is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. He is also referred to as King Shango, King David, The Fireman and The Prophet. His record label is called David House Productions...

, Massilia Sound System

Massilia Sound System

, Keren Ann

Keren Ann

, Le Peuple de l'Herbe

Le Peuple de l'Herbe

-Members:* Dj Pee : machines* Psychostick : drums, machines* N'Zeng : Trumpet, Keyboard , Flugelhorn, machines* JC 001 : singing, human beatbox* Spagg : sampler, Bass guitar...

, Renaud

Renaud

, Emilie Simon

Émilie Simon

Émilie Simon is a French singer and composer of electronic music.-Émilie Simon:In May 2003, she released her debut album Émilie Simon. The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success. To promote her album, she did numerous live performances and TV...

, La Tordue

La Tordue

La Tordue is a popular musical group from Paris, France that existed from 1989 to 2003.-Personnel:* Benoît Morel: vocals* Eric '"Fil" Philippon: Guitar, melodica, bass, xylophone, banjo, toothbrush, vocals...

, Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

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2004

(April 20–25)

Alain Bashung

Alain Bashung

, Benabar

Bénabar

, Têtes Raides, Sanseverino

Sanseverino

Sanseverino is a surname, and may refer to:* Roscemanno Sanseverino, 12th century cardinal* Ferdinando Sanseverino , prince of Salerno and Italian condottiero* Gaetano Sanseverino , Italian theologian...

, IAM

IAM (band)

, Jamel

Jamel

Jamel is a tiny German village in the municipality of Gägelow, in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The village consists of ten houses.-History:...

, Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...

, The Rasmus

The Rasmus

The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...

, Stanley Beckford

Stanley Beckford

Stanley Beckford is a Jamaican born Mento singer, songwriter, and 2001 Jamaica Independence Festival song contest winner.-Early life:Beckford was born in the north-eastern Jamaican parish of Portland. His mother died during his infancy...

, -M-

Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...

, Calexico, Dani

Dani (singer)

Dani is a French actress and singer born on 1 October 1944 in Castres, Tarn, France. Dani was meant to have been France's Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry, but President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly...

, Incubus

Incubus (band)

Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex "Dirk Lance" Katunich, and Gavin "DJ Lyfe" Koppell;...

, Buck 65

Buck 65

Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...

Bebo Valdés

Bebo Valdés is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, led two famous big bands, and was one of the 'house' arrangers for the Tropicana Club.Valdés started his career as a pianist in the night clubs of Havana during the 1940s...

& Diego el Cigala

Diego El Cigala

Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar, known as El Cigala , is a famous Spanish Romani Flamenco singer...

Junior Kelly

Junior Kelly is a reggae singer known for his commitment to the faith of the Rastafari movement and its Bobo Shanti mansion...

, I Monster

I Monster

I Monster are an English electronic music group, composed of the Sheffield based record producers Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling. They formed in 1997, and released their debut album These Are Our Children in 1998....

, Turbulence

Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic and stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time...

, Fabulous Trobadors

Fabulous Trobadors

Fabulous Trobadors are a band from Toulouse, France, founded in 1987. They have developed their own distinctive style based on Occitan folk music and the rhythms of northeastern Brazil....

, The Vines

The Vines

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, Oi Va Voi

Oi Va Voi

Oi Va Voi is a British band that takes its name from a Yiddish-derived exclamation popular in modern Hebrew meaning, approximately, "Oh, dear!" It is an experimental band from London, England, which formed in the late 1990s...

, Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen is a French singer-songwriter.During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres...

, Lhasa

Lhasa de Sela

Lhasa de Sela , also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-born singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States, and divided her adult life between Canada and France...

, Mardi Gras.bb, Auf Der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...

, Jeanne Cherhal

Jeanne Cherhal

Jeanne Cherhal is a French singer-songwriter.-Biography:After spending her younger years in Erbray near Châteaubriant, Cherhal studied philosophy before moving to Paris. She started her singing career playing piano – solo, or accompanied by her guitarist Éric Löhrer in small concert venues. At the...

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2005

(April 19–24)

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia . The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music...

, Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...

, The Bellrays

The Bellrays

The Bellrays are an American group that combines garage rock music with soul singing styles. The band consists of Lisa Kekaula , Bob Vennum , Justin Andres and Stefan Litrownik . The group, founded in the early 1990s in Riverside, California, prides itself on its independence...

, Bloc Party

Bloc Party

Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...

, Camille, Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

, Gojira

Gojira

Gojira is a heavy metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass...

, Interpol

Interpol (band)

Interpol is an American indie rock and post-punk revival band from New York City. Formed in 1997, the band's original line-up consisted of Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Greg Drudy . Drudy left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino...

, Kasabian, Keren Ann & The Mons Orchestra

Keren Ann

, The Kills

The Kills

The Kills is a rock band formed by American singer Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince . Their first three albums, Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, and Midnight Boom, have garnered much critical praise...

, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Bernard Lavilliers

Bernard Lavilliers

, LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem was a prominent American dance-punk band from New York City. It was fronted by American singer-songwriter and producer James Murphy, co-founder of record label DFA Records...

, Massilia Sound System

Massilia Sound System

, Millencolin

Millencolin

Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band...

, Mylo

Mylo

Myles MacInnes , better known by the stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer.-Career:...

, Nosfell

Nosfell

Nosfell is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois and Orkhan Murat . His full stage name, Labyala Fela Da Jawid Fel, means "The one who walks and heals"....

, Le Peuple de l'Herbe

Le Peuple de l'Herbe

-Members:* Dj Pee : machines* Psychostick : drums, machines* N'Zeng : Trumpet, Keyboard , Flugelhorn, machines* JC 001 : singing, human beatbox* Spagg : sampler, Bass guitar...

, Seu Jorge

Seu Jorge

Seu Jorge is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba...

, Ska-P

Ska-P

Ska-P is a ska punk band formed in , Spain, in 1994.The band can be categorized, politically, as an anti-establishment musical group. It is one of the most popular ska bands in Spain, Europe, and Latin America....

, Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...

, Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...

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2006

(April 26 to May 1)

54 Nude Honeys, Abbass, Abe Duque, Afu-Ra

Afu-Ra

Aaron Phillip better known by his stage names, Afu-Ra & Afu is a New York-based American underground rapper. Afu, born Aaron Phillip, is a devout student of the Martial arts, as well as Chess...

, Alain Chamfort

Alain Chamfort

Alain Chamfort, born Alain Le Govic, is a French singer of Breton origin, born on 2 March 1949 in Paris.He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice...

, Alexis HK, Anais

Anaïs Croze

Anaïs, full name Anaïs Croze, is a French singer. She was born in Grenoble, Isère, France on August 20, 1976. Her first album, called The Cheap Show, was recorded live in January 2004 and released in 2005...

, Anis

Anis Kachohi

Anis Kachohi is a French country singer known as Anis.-Life and career:Born of a Russian mother and a Moroccan father, he grew up until age 8 in the Paris suburb of Cergy....

, Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Anna Karina is a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France. Karina is known as a muse of the director, Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave...

, Anna Ternheim

Anna Ternheim

-Early life:Ternheim was born 31 May 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden. When she was 10 years old she began playing the guitar, writing songs and performing. During a year abroad in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna created her first band "Sova," playing at smaller festivals and local clubs...

, Architecture In Helsinki

Architecture in Helsinki

Architecture in Helsinki is an Australian indie pop band which consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland...

, Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band. Formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders...

, Art Brut, Arthur H

Arthur H

, Asyl, Bénabar

Bénabar

, Battles, Bernard Lavilliers

Bernard Lavilliers

, Bikini Machine, Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam are a DJ crew from France whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC Technics 2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical...

, Bumcello with Mazaher & Ganoub, Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...

, Calexico, Cali

Cali (singer)

Cali is a French singer-songwriter.- Biography :Cali was born 28 June 1968 in Vernet-les-Bains near Perpignan, to an Italian father and Catalan mother. A fan of English rock and French chanson during his youth, Cali was also a keen rugby player. He played for his region and Perpignan...

, Calixte de Nigremont, Cariboo

Cariboo

The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. The name is a reference to the woodland caribou that were once abundant in the region...

, Champion

Champion

A champion is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition.There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, and even further divisions at one or more of these levels, as in soccer. Their champions...

, Cheikha Rimitti

Cheikha Rimitti

Cheikha Rimitti Cheikha Rimitti Cheikha Rimitti (born سعدية الغيزانية Saadia El Ghizania, (8 May 1923, Tessala, Algeria – d. 15 May 2006, Paris, France) was a popular Algerian raï female singer.-Early life:...

, Christophe Mali, Clarika, Cocorosie

CocoRosie

CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years...

, Coldcut

Coldcut

Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...

, Company Scene & Track, Da Silva, Dagoba

Dagoba (band)

Dagoba is a French industrial metal/groove metal band formed in 2000 by vocalist Shawter out of a previous band.-Biography:In 2001, Dagoba signed on Enternote Records and recorded its first EP, Release the Fury, in digipak format and accompanied by a video for "Rush"...

, Dani Siciliano

Dani Siciliano

Dani Siciliano is an American singer. She has worked with Matthew Herbert on several of his projects including the albums Around the House, Bodily Functions and Scale...

, Daniel Darc

Daniel Darc

Daniel Darc , born Daniel Rozoum, is a French singer, who has achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist...

, Deus

Deus

, Diam's

Diam's

Diam's is a French-language rap artist of French and Greek Cypriot origin. Her family moved to Essonne in 1984....

, Digitalism

Digitalism (band)

Digitalism is a German electro house duo founded in 2004 in Hamburg and consisting of Jens "Jence" Moelle and İsmail "Isi" Tüfekçi. They are signed to French label Kitsuné Music, and have released four singles to date: "Idealistic", "Zdarlight", "Jupiter Room", and "Pogo"...

, Dionysos

Dionysos (French band)

, Dominique A

Dominique A

, Emilie Simon

Émilie Simon

, Eths

Eths

Eths is a French Metalcore band from Marseille.-The beginning:Staif joined by Greg, formed the band What's the fuck in 1996. The following year, Candice joined the band which was renamed Melting Point....

, Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy

is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix . The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science-fantasy role-playing video games , but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise...

, Fredo, Hocus Pocus, Hushpuppies

HushPuppies

HushPuppies is a French garage rock band influenced by the various bands of the sixties. Members of the group live in Paris, France, although originate from Perpignan and Bordeaux.- Members :* Singer: Olivier Jourdan* Guitar: Cyrille Sudraud...

, Indochine

Indochine (band)

Iron & Wine

Samuel Beam , better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live album...

, Izia

Izia

Izïa Higelin , more commonly known by her stage name Izia, is a French rock singer and guitarist. She comes from a family of musicians; her father is Jacques Higelin and her brother is Arthur H...

, Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

, John Lord Fonda, Joseph D'Anvers, JR Ewing

JR Ewing

JR Ewing was a hardcore punk/screamo band from Norway. They formed in 1998 in Oslo, Norway and broke up after their final tour across Europe in 2006.- Discography :Full Albums:* 2000 - Calling in Dead* 2003 - Ride Paranoia* 2005 - Maelstrom...

, Juliette

Juliette (singer)

Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, CM , nicknamed , is a Canadian singer and television host who was featured on CBC Television from the 1950s through the 1970s....

, Justice

Justice

Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics; justice is the act of being just and/or fair.-Concept of justice:...

, K'Naan

K'naan

K'naan , born Keinan Abdi Warsame in 1978, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Somalia, K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most...

, Ken Boothe

Ken Boothe

Ken Boothe OD is a Jamaican recording artist.-Biography:Ken Boothe was born in the Denham Town area of Kingston in 1948, the youngest of seven children, and began singing in school...

, Keny Arkana

Keny Arkana

Keny Arkana is a French rap artist. She is active in the alter-globalization movement with "La Rage Du Peuple", a music collective created in 2004 in the neighborhood of Noailles in Marseilles.-Biography:...

, Killa Carltoon, La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie , is a French singer-songwriter who got her start in the mid-1990s in the Paris alternative scene.-Childhood:...

, Le Cirque Des Mirages, Les Brats, Les Ogres De Barback, Loic Lantoine, Lo'Jo

Lo'Jo

Lo'Jo are a group of France-based musicians, performing and recording a blend of world music with strong North African as well as French folk elements....

, Louis Chedid

Louis Chedid

Louis Chedid is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese origin.-Biography:Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid ....

, Massive Attack

Massive Attack

, Mahmoud Ahmed

Mahmoud Ahmed

Mahmoud Ahmed is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry.-Biography:Born in Addis Ababa, Mahmoud shined shoes in that city before becoming a handyman at the Arizona Club, where he first sang professionally in the early 1960s...

, Mansfield Tya, Marcel Kanche, Mariza

Mariza

Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....

, Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert , also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician...

, Mauss, Melissa Mars

Melissa Mars

- Biography :Born in Marseilles, France, Melissa Mars began acting at the age of thirteen, at the Chocolat theater. Two years later, she began taking singing lessons....

, Mick Harvey

Mick Harvey

Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...

, Mickey 3D

Mickey 3D

, Mike Patton

Mike Patton

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

Miossec

Christophe Miossec is a Breton singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.-Beginnings:Christophe Miossec was not new to the world of music when he met his first great success. Between 14 and 17, he was in a teenage band, Printemps Noir , touring around Brest...

Modeselektor

Modeselektor is an electronic music band formed in Berlin, featuring Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The group draws heavily from IDM, glitch, Electro house and hip hop. In an interview the group said regarding their sound: "Happy metal, hard rap, country-ambient, Russian crunk. We don’t like...

, Ms John Soda, Pauline Croze

Pauline Croze

Pauline Croze is a French pop/folk singer and musician.She started to sing and play the guitar when she was 14 and 6 years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes. At this time she made her very first appearance on stage.In 2003, she collaborated with Anne Claverie and...

, Plaid

Plaid (band)

Plaid is a London-based British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic and Balil , before settling on Plaid...

, PM Gaillard Sans Gêne, Poni Hoax

Poni Hoax

Poni Hoax are an electronic music and rock outfit from Paris, France.Their most notable influence is that of Italo disco, as in their song "Budapest", from the self-titled album released by Parisian label Tigersushi...

, Psapp

Psapp

Psapp is an experimental electronica band. The band, a duo consisting of members Carim Clasmann and Galia Durant, are sometimes credited with inventing a musical style known as toytronica, a form of electronica made with toys and toy instruments...

, Puppetmastaz, Queen Adreena, Raphael

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

, Rhesus, Rodolphe Burger, Saian Supa Crew

Saïan Supa Crew

, Sapho

Sapho (singer)

, Sarah Slean

Sarah Slean

Sarah Hope Slean is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occasional actress from Pickering, Ontario. She has released eleven albums to date .-Major recordings:...

, Second Sex, Sharon Jones, Skin

Skin

-Dermis:The dermis is the layer of skin beneath the epidermis that consists of connective tissue and cushions the body from stress and strain. The dermis is tightly connected to the epidermis by a basement membrane. It also harbors many Mechanoreceptors that provide the sense of touch and heat...

, Smooth, Spleen

Spleen

The spleen is an organ found in virtually all vertebrate animals with important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system. In humans, it is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. It removes old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood in case of hemorrhagic shock...

, Sylvain Chauveau

Sylvain Chauveau

Sylvain Chauveau is a critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France.-Background:Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne, France , and now lives in Brussels, Belgium...

, The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione...

, The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...

, The Spinto Band

The Spinto Band

The Spinto Band is an indie rock band from Wilmington, Delaware. They are currently signed to Park the Van Records.-Biography:The Spinto Band was originally formed as recording project by high school students in Wilmington, Delaware in the late 1990s...

, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (replaced by Jack the ripper), Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine

Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

, Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. In 1970, Bunyan released her first album, Just Another Diamond Day. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career...

, Vince Gill

Vince Gill

, Warehouse 99 Project, White Rose Movement

White Rose Movement

White Rose Movement were a post-punk/electro band from London, England. The band is named after the German anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose...

, Wolf Eyes

Wolf Eyes

Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...

, Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu is an American avant-garde group originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception in 2002. His current bandmate is Angela Seo...

, Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...

2007

(April 17–22)

120 days, Aaron

Aaron

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, Aaron : Ααρών ), who is often called "'Aaron the Priest"' and once Aaron the Levite , was the older brother of Moses, and a prophet of God. He represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first High Priest of the Israelites...

, Abd Al Malik

Abd al Malik (rapper)

Abd al Malik, born Régis Fayette-Mikano is a French rapper and spoken word artist of Congolese origin. He took part in the group NAP . In 1999, he converted to Islam. He is married to French Moroccan singer Wallen with whom he has a child...

, Acoustic Ladyland

Acoustic Ladyland

Acoustic Ladyland are a London based jazz/punk band consisting of Pete Wareham on vocals, tenor and baritone saxophone, Seb Rochford on drums, Chris Sharkey on Guitar and Ruth Goller on bass guitar....

, Adamo

Salvatore Adamo

Salvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, but...

, Adrienne Pauly

Adrienne Pauly

Adrienne Pauly is a French actress and pop-rock singer, born in Clamart, France.She joined the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in 1996, where she studied drama, and acted in films until 2002, when she discovered the piano through Camille Bazbaz...

, Agoria

Agoria

Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association. The companies represented by Agoria are active in 13 branches of the technology industry: aerospace, automotive, construction products, contracting & maintenance, electrical engineering, industrial automation, ICT,...

, Akli D, Akron Family, Alexander Kowalski, Amon Tobin

Amon Tobin

Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin , known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world...

, Babet, Beat Assailant, Benjy Ferree, Bloc Party

Bloc Party

Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...

, Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine

, Bromheads Jacket, Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer, , also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately as Jah B, is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh...

, Capleton

Capleton

Capleton is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. He is also referred to as King Shango, King David, The Fireman and The Prophet. His record label is called David House Productions...

, Cassius

Cassius (band)

Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

, Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids are an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett , Jonnie Russell , Matt Maust , and Matt Aveiro .-History:...

, Death Before Disco, Deerhoof, Dub Inc, Dubmood

Dubmood

Kalle Jonsson aka Dubmood is a Swedish composer and producer of electronic, pop, rock and dance music best known for his works in the chiptune genre and within the computer piracy movement known as the Warez scene...

, Eiffel

Eiffel (band)

Eiffel is a French rock group founded in 1998 around Romain Humeau.Their influences range from the Pixies to Léo Ferré, encompassing Jacques Brel, Sonic Youth, Serge Gainsbourg, The Buzzcocks, Noir Désir, the Stooges, David Bowie, Sixteen Horsepower the Kinks, the Beatles, Tears For Fears, Fugazi,...

, Elista, Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...

, Enter Shikari, Ephel Duath, Erik Truffaz Quartet

Erik Truffaz

Erik Truffaz is a Swiss-born French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. He signed with the French EMI label in 1996. Truffaz gained international attention with his second album on Blue Note, The Dawn, produced together with Pat...

, Exson Valdes, Feist

Leslie Feist

Leslie Feist , known professionally as simply Feist, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene....

, Florent Marchet

Florent Marchet

Florent Marchet is a French singer-songwriter. His debut album, Gargilesse, was released in 2004.Florent plays the piano, guitar, drums, and flute. Collaborated with François Poggio, Pete Thomas and Charlie Poggio....

, Francesco Tristano Schlimé

Francesco Tristano Schlimé

Francesco Tristano Schlimé is a Luxembourg classical and modern jazz pianist who also plays the clarinet. He composes both classical music and jazz.-Education:...

, Galaxy Naast, Goose

Goose (band)

Goose are a Belgian electro rock band consisting of members Mickael Karkousse, Dave Martijn, Tom Coghe, and Bert Libeert. They are currently signed to !K7 Records.- History :Goose was formed in the summer of 2000 in Kortrijk, Belgium...

, Gotan Project

Gotan Project

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal , Eduardo Makaroff , and Christoph H. Müller .-History:...

, Guns Of Brixton, Hommage à Ali Farka Touré avec Hamadoun Tandina & Amadou Bagayokohttp://edition2007.printemps-bourges.com/en/schedule/hommage-ali-farka-toure.php, Herman Düne, Improvisators Dub & Iration Steppas, Ivan Smagghe, J. Tillman, Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

, Jamika, Jeanne cherhal

Jeanne Cherhal

, Jesse Sykes, Joan As Police Woman, Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...

, Joey Starr

Joey Starr

Joeystarr is a French rapper of Martinican origin, from Saint-Denis. He co-founded the famous French rap group Suprême NTM in 1989 along with Kool Shen....

, Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

, Juliette Greco

Juliette Gréco

, Just Jack

Just Jack

Jack Christopher Allsopp , known by the stage name Just Jack, is an English musician from Camden Town, London. He first came to prominence with the release of his 2007 single "Starz in Their Eyes", which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart...

, Justice

Justice (French band)

Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...

, Katel, Khalid K, Kruger, Laurent Korcia

Laurent Korcia

Laurent Korcia is a French violinist who studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. After receiving a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire, he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, a Grand Prix at the Jacques Thibaud Competition, the Premier Grand Prix at the international...

, Les Fatal Picards, Les Plasticines, L'Oiseau Bleu, Loney Dear

Loney, Dear

Loney, Dear is the pseudonym of Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen. He has self-released four albums of music in his native Sweden. His first major release came in February, 2007 in the U.S. when Sub Pop re-issued his album Loney, Noir.-History:Emil Svanängen...

, Mademoiselle K

Mademoiselle K

Mademoiselle K is a four-person French rock band currently signed with EMI, as of July 2007. The band takes its name from its leader, Katerine Gierak, and so the K is for Katerine.-Early days:...

, Malouma, Mamani Keita

Mamani Keita

Mamani Keita is a singer and musician from Mali, best known for her album with Marc Minelli, Electro Bamako. She was raised speaking Bambara, and was once a backup singer for Salif Keita. She is credited on four tracks of the soundtrack album of the French animated film Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages...

, Manimal, Mano Solo

Mano Solo

, Marie Cherrier, Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park are a British alternative rock band, formed in 2000. They are signed to Warp Records. The band consists of Paul Smith , Duncan Lloyd , Archis Tiku , Lukas Wooller and Tom English...

, Mayra Andrade

Mayra Andrade

Mayra Andrade is a Cape Verdean singer who lives and records in Paris, France.Andrade was born in Cuba but grew up in Senegal, Angola, and Germany. However, she spent around two months of the year in the Cape Verdean island of Santiago...

, Metronomy, Mick Est Tout Seul, Miossec, Missill, Mitsoura, Mystic revelation of rastafari, Nadj, Nelson, Nosfell

Nosfell

Nosfell is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois and Orkhan Murat . His full stage name, Labyala Fela Da Jawid Fel, means "The one who walks and heals"....

, Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Blanc known as Olivia Ruiz is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish origin belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.-Biography:...

, Oxmo Puccino

Oxmo Puccino

Oxmo Puccino is a French hip hop musician.- Life :Puccino was born in 1974 in Ségou, Mali. He came to Paris one year later, and lived in the XIXe arrondissement from the age of 5. He is the brother of basketball player Mamoutou Diarra...

And The Jazzbastards, Pave, Peter Bjorn & John, Peter Von Poehl

Peter von Poehl

Peter von Poehl is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, musician and director.He was the guitarist for A.S. Dragon, once the backing band for Bertrand Burgalat and in Michel Houellebecq's album Présence humaine...

, Phoenix

Phoenix (band)

Phoenix is a Grammy Award winning French indie rock band from Versailles, founded by Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz.-Formation and early years:...

, Pierre Lapointe

Pierre Lapointe

Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian singer. He has won many prizes since his debut, including six Félix in 2005 and at least one in 2006. He is well known for his voice and his obscure, esoteric lyrics, which tend to be melancholic. Another distinctive characteristic of his lyrics is their literary style...

, Pravda, Riké, Rocé, Rose, Sanseverino

Stéphane Sanseverino

Stéphane Sanseverino is a French singer, guitarist and songwriter of Napolitan descent.He is a self-taught guitarist and an admirer of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. His music is inspired by Tzigan music...

, Seb Martel, Shannon Wright

Shannon Wright

Shannon Wright is an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:Wright moved from New York City to Chapel Hill, NC after her first band Crowsdell called it quits. While in Chapel Hill, Wright started experimenting and writing solo songs with a borrowed four-track recorder...

, Sikth, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is an American experimental rock band, formed in 1999 in Oakland, California. The band fuses classical, industrial, and art-rock themes throughout their music...

, Socalled, Son Of Dave Syrano, Tekel, The Automatic

The Automatic

The Automatic , are a Welsh rock band. The band is composed of Robin Hawkins on vocals, bass and synthesizers, James Frost on guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals and occasional bass, Iwan Griffiths on drums and Paul Mullen on vocals, guitar and synthesizer - since 2007...

, The John Butler Trio

John Butler Trio

The John Butler Trio are an eclectic roots and jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler. They formed in Fremantle in 1998 with Jason McGann on drums and Gavin Shoesmith on bass guitar...

, The John Venture, The Konki Duet, The Procussions, The Rakes

The Rakes

The Rakes were an English indie rock band from London. They split up in October 2009.-History:The Rakes formed in 2004. Since coming to fame in 2005, they were associated with the British post-punk/art rock scene, a genre shared by bands such as Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park, and The Futureheads...

, Third World

Third World

The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...

, Tinariwen

Tinariwen

Tinariwen is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s...

, Transmission 0, TTC

TTC (band)

TTC is a four member hip hop and electronic band from Paris, France. It is composed of MCs Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier plus DJ Orgasmic. They were signed to Big Dada for their first LP Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque, the title of which referred to René Magritte's painting La trahison des...

, Yelle

Yelle

Yelle is a French band founded by lead singer and namesake, Yelle and GrandMarnier . A third member, Tepr , joined the band before the recording of their debut album. Budet and GrandMarnier began working on music together in 2000...

, Daddy Longlegs (Découverte du Printemps)

2008

(April 15–20)

Tuesday, April 15
- 19:00, at Phoenix: Rose
  Pink (singer)
  Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....
  
  , Renan Luce
  Renan Luce
  Renan Luce is a French singer and songwriter. His songs are inspired by the 20th century singer and songwriter Georges Brassens and depict everyday life with a dose of humour and poetry.- Biography and musical career :...
  
  , Christophe Willem
  Christophe Willem
  Christophe Willem , born on 3 August 1983 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, is a French singer and the winner of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star in 2006.-Early life:...
Wednesday, April 16
- 17:00 at the Palais d'Auron: Nouvel R, Sefyu
  Sefyu
  Youssef Soukouna , better known by his stage name Sefyu , is a French rapper of Senegalese descent. He comes from Aulnay-sous-Bois , a city in the French department of Seine-Saint-Denis...
  
  , Psy 4 de la Rime
  Psy 4 de la Rime
  Psy 4 de la Rime are a French hip hop group formed 1995 in Marseille comprising several rappers with immigrant backgrounds from former French colonies...
  
  , Sinik
  Sinik
  Thomas Idir a.k.a. Sinik is a French-language rap artist. His father is Algerian while his mother is French.His meeting with Diam's at 14 was the turning point of his career...
- 19:00, at Phoenix: Déportivo
  Déportivo
  -About the band:There are three members in the band:* Jérôme Coudane — guitar, vocals* Richard Magnac — bass* Julien Bonnet — drumsThe trio mainly composes songs in French, though it has written several in English as well. Personal topics dominate....
  
  , BB Brunes
  BB Brunes
  BB Brunes is a French pop rock band, part of the "new French rock scene" .In 2000, Adrien Gallo, Karim Réveillé and Raphaël Delorme, childhood friends, formed the band "Hangover" with songs exclusively in English. Some years later, Raphaël left the band at the moment when they were signing their...
  
  , The Kooks
  The Kooks
  The Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2001. Formed by Luke Pritchard , Hugh Harris , Paul Garred , and Max Rafferty , the lineup of the band remained constant until 2008 and the departure of Rafferty...
  
  , The Dø
  The Dø
  The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy . The duo has been backed on stage by three different drummers...
Thursday, April 17
- 19:00, at Phoenix: Moriarty
  Moriarty (band)
  -History:Moriarty is made up of five artists of French, American, and Swiss origin. The members were mainly born in France to American parents. The group was named Moriarty in reference to Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road by Jack Kerouac....
  
  , Yael Naïm
  Yael Naim
  Yael Naïm , is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Yael Naïm was born in Paris, France to Tunisian Jewish...
  
  , Thomas Dutronc
  Thomas Dutronc
  Thomas Dutronc is a jazz French guitarist. His mother is the singer Françoise Hardy. His father is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and film actor Jacques Dutronc....
  
  , Cali
  Cali (singer)
  Cali is a French singer-songwriter.- Biography :Cali was born 28 June 1968 in Vernet-les-Bains near Perpignan, to an Italian father and Catalan mother. A fan of English rock and French chanson during his youth, Cali was also a keen rugby player. He played for his region and Perpignan...
- 20:00 pm, at the Palais d'Auron: Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam are a DJ crew from France whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC Technics 2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical...
  
  , Mix Master Mike, Yuksek, Svinkels
Friday, April 18
- 18:00 at Phoenix: Fat Freddy's Drop
  Fat Freddy's Drop
  Fat Freddy’s Drop is a seven-piece band from Wellington, New Zealand, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy’s Drop...
  
  , Keny Arkana
  Keny Arkana
  Keny Arkana is a French rap artist. She is active in the alter-globalization movement with "La Rage Du Peuple", a music collective created in 2004 in the neighborhood of Noailles in Marseilles.-Biography:...
  
  , Groundation
  Groundation
  Groundation is an American roots reggae band with jazz and dub influences from Sonoma County in Northern California.-History:Formed in the fall of 1998 by Harrison Stafford, Marcus Urani, and Ryan Newman, Groundation began on the campus of Sonoma State University's Jazz Program...
  
  , Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling his first group, Djelys, in 1987...
  
  , Israel Vibration
  Israel Vibration
  Israel Vibration is a reggae harmony trio, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin, Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig, and Cecil "Skelly" Spence all overcame childhood polio, and went on to be one of the most successful roots groups to form in Jamaica in the late 1970s...
- 20:00 pm, at the Palais d'Auron: Zebramix, Catherine Ringer
  Catherine Ringer
  Catherine Ringer is a French singer, musician, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, and actress.Ringer started her professional career on stage in the late 1970s in productions with Michael Lonsdale's Théâtre de Recherche Musicale as well as musical and dance productions...
  
  sings Rita Mitsouko
Saturday, April 19
- 18:00 at the Palais d'Auron: Dub Trio
  Dub Trio
  Dub Trio is a dub/rock cross-over band from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Dub Trio is DP - Dave Holmes Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino...
  
  , Zenzile, Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
- 20:00 pm, at Phoenix: Blood Red Shoes
  Blood Red Shoes
  Blood Red Shoes are an indie rock duo from Brighton, England. They have released two full-length albums, Box of Secrets and Fire Like This, plus a slew of early singles on limited 7" vinyl pressings.-Formation:...
  
  , Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
  
  , The Hives
  The Hives
  The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to Say I Told...
  
  , Justice
  Justice (French band)
  Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...
  
  , Vitalic
  Vitalic
  Vitalic is an electronic music artist. He was born in France and is of Spanish and Italian descent.-History:His first singles were released in 1996 and 1997, but were confined to the underground electronic music scene...
- 20:00 pm, at La Cathédrale de Bourges stage: "Bach to 2008" with Jean-Paul Dessy, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas Lacôte, Murcof. http://edition2008.printemps-bourges.com/en/schedule/bach_to_2008.php
Sunday, April 20
- 14:00 pm, at Phoenix: Caravan Palace
  Caravan Palace
  Caravan Palace is a French Electroswing band based in Paris. The current band line-up consists of Sonia Fernandez Velasco , Arnaud Vial , Hugues Payen , Camille Chapelière , Charles Delaporte and Antoine Toustou...
  
  , Ridan
  Ridan
  Ridan, real name Nadir Kouidri , is a French singer/songwriter launched into the limelight in 2004. He is known for his urban poetry in French suburbia. A recurring theme in his songs is the difficult life of Arab immigrants in France. One of his most famous and most popular songs is "Ulysse"...
  
  , Aṣa
  Asa
  -People:* Aṣa , Paris-born Nigerian singer-songwriter* Asa of Judah , son of Abijam, King of Judah* Asa Dotzler , Mozilla contributor and blogger*Asa Kasher , Israeli philosopher and linguist-Places:...
  
  , Rokia Traoré
  Rokia Traoré
  Rokia Traoré is a Victoires de la Musique award-winning Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born in Mali as a member of the Bambara ethnic group, her father was a diplomat and she travelled widely in her youth. She visited such countries as Algeria, Saudi Arabia, France and Belgium and was...

2009

(April 21–26)

Tuesday 21

19:00-22:40: Grace

Grace (musician)

Grace Young, or more commonly known as Grace, is a Canadian-born, American female musician, signed to Universal Music, who sings folk, reggae, soul, blues-style original songs. She has released one album, Hall of Mirrors. She is the daughter of musician Jonathan Edwards.-Biography:Grace was born in...

- Piers Faccini

Piers Faccini

Piers Faccini is an English singer, painter and songwriter.-Biography:Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother...

- Ben Harper

Ben Harper

& Relentless 7

Relentless7

Relentless7 is an American rock band formed in 2008 by singer/guitarist Ben Harper. The current members are Harper , Jason Mozersky , Jesse Ingalls , and Jordan Richardson .-History:...

Wednesday 22

17:00-21:30: Zone Libre vs Casey & Hamé - Medina

Medina

Medina , or ; also transliterated as Madinah, or madinat al-nabi "the city of the prophet") is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and...

- Kery James

Kery James

- Rohff

Rohff

Rohff - « Rimeur Original Hardcore Flow Fluide » is a French rapper from Vitry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne, south of Paris. Rohff was born in Comoros and immigrated to the Parisian suburbs in 1985.A fan of 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., NWA, Game, and others, Rohff began rapping around 1994...

18:00-21:10: Sammy Decoster - Victor Deme - Mathieu Boogaerts

Mathieu Boogaerts

Mathieu Boogaerts is a French singer-songwriter.-Biography:After many years travelling the world, mostly Africa , he started penning some naive, minimalistic ditties...

19:00-22:40: Kokusyoku Sumire - Zaza Fournier - Bénabar

Bénabar

20:30-23:15: Mansfield Tya - Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...

22:00-01:50: Detroit 7 - Dead Sexy Inc. - Lucy And The Popsonics - The Dodoz - Mono

Mono (Japanese band)

Mono are a Japanese post rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto , Yoda , Tamaki Kunishi , and Yasunori Takada .Mono have released five studio albums...

- The Von Bondies

The Von Bondies

The Von Bondies were an American alternative rock band. The group disbanded in July 2011. Its most recent members were Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar...

- Stuck In The Sound

Stuck in the Sound

Stuck in the Sound is a French indie rock band formed in Paris in 2002. The current band line up consists of José Reis Fontao , Emmanuel Barichasse , Arno Bordas and François Ernie...

Thursday 23

16:00-18:00: Bakirinosu - Dominique A

Dominique A

18:00-21:40: Essie Jain

Essie Jain

Essie Jain is an English indie singer-songwriter born and raised in London, who is now based out of New York City.-Biography:Her first published work was a single track, "Why", on the album The Sound the Hare Heard, which contains a single track each from a large number of artists including Sufjan...

- Frida Hyvönen

Frida Hyvönen

Frida Hyvönen is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She grew up in Robertsfors, a small place just outside Umeå in the north of Sweden , and is currently based in Paris, France....

- Larkin Grimm

Larkin Grimm

Larkin Grimm is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Memphis, Tennessee.She was born into a monastic order called Holy Order of MANS...

- Sophie Hunger

Sophie Hunger

Sophie Hunger is a folk-pop-blues singer from Zurich.- Early life :Sophie Hunger grew up in Bern , London , Bonn and Zurich with two older siblings...

18:00-00:00: Gadget - Ultra Vomit - Royal Cabaret - Dagoba

Dagoba (band)

- Envy

Envy

Envy is best defined as a resentful emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."...

- Gojira

Gojira

19:00-00:00: Arthur H

Arthur H

- Anais

Anaïs Croze

- Ayo

Ayo

"Ayo!" is an R&B/Go-go song by American singer-songwriter Mýa and features DJ Kool. The track was produced by Chris Henderson for Harrison fourth studio album Liberation. Ayo! was written by Chris Henderson, Mýa, and Charlie Smalls....

- Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam

20:00-21:15: Création Private Domain http://edition2009.printemps-bourges.com/en/schedule/private_domain.php

20:30-23:15: Coming Soon

Coming Soon (band)

Coming Soon is a rock band hailing from Liepāja, Latvia. There are five members in the band: Uldis Kalns , Roberts Dinters , Kristofers Knesis , Eriks Hanzovskis and Kristaps Leitis .- Biography :...

- Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...

Friday 24

16:00-19:00: Misja Fitzgerald Michel - Kyrie Kristmanson

Kyrie Kristmanson

Kyrie Kristmanson is a Canadian singer/songwriter, guitarist and trumpeter. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, she has lived in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and in France. Since appearing at the 2006 Winnipeg Folk Festival at the age of fifteen, Kristmanson has performed widely in Canada and...

- Melissa Laveaux

Mélissa Laveaux

Mélissa Laveaux is an Ottawa musician of Haitian descent signed to No Format! records...

- Kouyaté & Neerman

18:30-21:50: Sliimy

Sliimy

Sliimy is a French pop musician of Moroccan-Algerian descent who in 2009 released the album Paint Your Face, which reached number 2 in the French charts.-Discography:Paint Your Face track listing:...

- Hugh Coltman - Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston is an English singer-songwriter.-Music Career:Early Career...

18:30-23:40: Inna De Yard All Stars - Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as "Blufunk", which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms...

- Toots & The Maytals

Toots & the Maytals

- Patrice

Patrice Bart-Williams

Patrice Babatunde Bart-Williams , better known as Patrice, is an Afro-German reggae artist. He also often uses his second name: Babatunde , which his parents gave him since Patrice was born on the same day that his grandfather died. His music is influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley...

18:00-21:00: Dear Reader - Juana Molina

Juana Molina

Juana Molina is a singer-songwriter and an actress.-Biography:Following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, her mother fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for five years...

- Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon (band)

Get Well Soon is a music and band project of the German singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper ....

20:30-23:15: Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...

- Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...

22:00-02:20: Telepathe

Telepathe

Telepathe is an electronic pop duo from Brooklyn consisting of core members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis. The band also includes other occasional musicians, such as Ryan Lucero....

- Slice & Soda (Para One

Para One

Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, also known by his artist name Para One, is a French electronic music producer and film director.-Music career:...

& San Serac

San Serac

San Serac is a one-man disco music group performed by Nat Rabb. San Serac’s music combines esoteric philosophical lyrics with electronic music reminiscent of '80s Prince, Pet Shop Boys or Cameo. San Serac has released three full-length albums and a 3" CD single on Frog Man Jake Records and a 12"...

) Live - 80kidz - The Juan Maclean

The Juan MacLean

John MacLean, better known by the stage name The Juan MacLean, is an American electronic musician.-History:Maclean was guitarist for the post-hardcore band Six Finger Satellite, based in Providence, Rhode Island. The band was struck by several tragedies, and Maclean eventually moved into production...

- Kap Bambino

Kap Bambino

Kap Bambino is an electronic musical duo from Bordeaux, France. The group is known for Caroline Martial's wild vocals and Orion Bouvier' electronic metal mixes. The group is also known for their excited live performances, thus them being a part of the festivals ZXZW, Dot to Dot and playing shows...

- The Noisettes

The Noisettes

Noisettes are an English indie rock band from London, comprising singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith, and drummer Jamie Morrison...

- Battant - Shinichi Osawa

Saturday 25

16:00-18:40: Firefly

Firefly

Lampyridae is a family of insects in the beetle order Coleoptera. They are winged beetles, and commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs for their conspicuous crepuscular use of bioluminescence to attract mates or prey. Fireflies produce a "cold light", with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies...

- Cœur de pirate - La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie , is a French singer-songwriter who got her start in the mid-1990s in the Paris alternative scene.-Childhood:...

18:00-20:30: Scary Mansion - Susanna Wallumrød - Bonnie Prince Billy

20:00-05:00: Izia

Izia

Izïa Higelin , more commonly known by her stage name Izia, is a French rock singer and guitarist. She comes from a family of musicians; her father is Jacques Higelin and her brother is Arthur H...

- Sporto Kantes

Sporto Kantes

Sporto Kantes is a french Drum and bass band, founded in 1990.-History:The band was born from the meeting of Benjamin Sportes and Nicolas Kantorovwicz, bassist of the Wampas...

- The Ting Tings

The Ting Tings

The Ting Tings are an English music duo comprising Jules de Martino and Katie White . They formed in December 2007 while based at Islington Mill Studios in Salford...

- Ghinzu

Ghinzu

Ghinzu is an alternative rock band founded in 1999 in Brussels, Belgium.-Electronic Jacuzzi :The band released its first album, Electronic Jacuzzi in late 2000 on their own label Dragoon. Their sound is a kind of noisy rock, supported by a big and groovy rhythmic and some electronic touches while...

- Dex Pistols - Yuksek

Yuksek

Yuksek is a French electronic music producer, remixer and DJ born in 1977, native of Reims, France.After playing the piano for ten years at a conservatoire, he took part in several bands such as Klanguage, whose first album was released in 2007.He created his first tracks as Yuksek in 2006 and...

- Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam

- Digitalism

Digitalism (band)

- Etienne de Crecy

Etienne de Crecy

Étienne Bernard Marie de Crécy is a French DJ and producer who composes house and electronic music.-Biography:...

- Naive New Beaters

Naïve New Beaters

Naïve New Beaters is a French pop band from Paris. Their style incorporates elements from rap, rock and electro house. The band was formed in 2005 and found initial internet fame on YouTube in 2007 with the music video for their first single "BANG BANG" eventually receiving over 100,000 views...

- Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin

& The Hacker

The Hacker

Live - Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier

Live - Ebony Bones

20:30-23:15: Yodelice

Yodelice

Yodelice is a French song-writer who performs in English. He has released two albums so far: Tree of Life and Cardioid . The songs belong to folk, rock and pop music. He is also known for his acting performance in Guillaume Canet’s film Les Petits Mouchoirs with Marion Cotillard in 2010...

- Ludo Pin - Casa

22:00-02:00: Orelsan

Orelsan

Orelsan is the stage name of Aurélien Cotentin , a French hip hop and rap artist. English speaking media have reported on a controversy involving his work being censored due to protests from feminists...

- DJ Kentaro

DJ Kentaro

DJ Kentaro is a hip hop DJ from Japan. He came 3rd in the Technics DMC World DJ Final in 2001 and won it in 2002 at the age of 20. In doing so, he became one of the first ever Asians to win the DMC World DJ Final, receiving the highest score in DMC history in the process.He was signed to Ninja Tune...

- General Elektriks - Chinese Man - Eli Paperboy Reed and The True Loves - Belleruche

Belleruche

Belleruche is a three-piece electronic/soul band from the United Kingdom. They are currently signed on the Brighton based Tru Thoughts label.The band was formed in North London in 2005....

- Alice Russell

Alice Russell (singer)

Alice Russell is a British soul singer. She was born in 1975, the daughter of an organist, and grew up in Framlingham in Suffolk. At the age of nine, following in her father and sisters' musical footsteps, Alice began taking lessons on Cello, and sang in choirs, before studying art and music in...

Sunday 26

15:00-17:50: Miss Platnum

Miss Platnum

Miss Platnum , formerly known as Platnum, is a Romanian-German singer, songwriter and musician, currently signed to Four Music.-Early life:...

- Tryo

Tryo

2010

(April 13–18)

Tuesday, April 13

19h00 - 22h30: Gush - M

Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...

20h00 - 00h00: Rocé - Casey - Féfé - Youssoupha - Alonzo - Sexion d'Assault

Wednesday, April 14

18h00 - 22h20: Speech Debelle

Speech Debelle

Corynne Elliot , better known as Speech Debelle, is a British rapper currently signed to the Big Dada record label. She was the winner of the 2009 Mercury Prize.- Early life :...

- Tumi And The Volume - Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (group)

Hocus Pocus is a Hip Hop|Jazz band from Nantes, France. Formed in 1995, their music is a mix of hip-hop, jazz, soul and funk. Originally being 20syl's brainchild, Hocus Pocus was formed in 1995, and gradually gained attention in the late '90s...

- Wax Tailor

Wax Tailor

Wax Tailor is the alias of French trip hop/hip hop producer, Jean-Christophe Le Saoût . He started in 2004 with two EP's . The first album Tales of the Forgotten Melodies was released in March 2005, mixing hip-hop, downtempo, trip-hop with samples extracted from movies...

18h00 - 21h20: Féloche - JP Nataf - Jeanne Cherhal

Jeanne Cherhal

20h00 - 00h45: Izia

Izia

Izïa Higelin , more commonly known by her stage name Izia, is a French rock singer and guitarist. She comes from a family of musicians; her father is Jacques Higelin and her brother is Arthur H...

- Emilie Simon

Émilie Simon

- Archive

Archive (band)

Archive is a musical group based in London, England, whose music spans electronic, trip-hop, avant-garde, post-rock and progressive rock. Over their sixteen-year history, the band has released eight studio albums and enjoyed established success throughout Europe, while remaining little-known in...

- Iggy & The Stooges

Iggy Pop

Thursday, April 15

16h00 - 17h45: Ballaké Sissoko

Ballaké Sissoko

Ballaké Sissoko is a noted player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal and several others. He can be heard on Diario Mali. Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable musician in his own right.-Biography:...

& Vincent Segal - Trio Tzan

17h00 - 21h30: The Black Box Revelation

The Black Box Revelation

Black Box Revelation, also known as the BBR, is a Belgian garage rock band. It was formed in 2005 by vocalist and guitarist Jan Paternoster and drummer Dries Van Dijck...

- Nada Surf

Nada Surf

Nada Surf is an American alternative rock band. Formed in 1992, the New York band consists of Matthew Caws , Ira Elliot and Daniel Lorca .-Early years:...

- Eiffel

Eiffel (band)

- BB Brunes

BB Brunes

BB Brunes is a French pop rock band, part of the "new French rock scene" .In 2000, Adrien Gallo, Karim Réveillé and Raphaël Delorme, childhood friends, formed the band "Hangover" with songs exclusively in English. Some years later, Raphaël left the band at the moment when they were signing their...

18h00 - 21h15: Bosque Brown

Bosque Brown

Bosque Brown is an American indie band from the music town of Denton, Texas.While attending college there, singer-songwriter Mara Lee Miller chose "Bosque Brown" for her music, named after a river that runs through Stephenville, Texas, her childhood home. She recorded a handful of demos and had her...

- Fanfarlo

Fanfarlo

Fanfarlo are a London-based indie pop band formed in 2006 by Swedish musician Simon Balthazar, and Giles J Davis...

- Revolver

Revolver (French band)

Revolver is a pop rock band, formed in Paris, in September 2006.-Band:The group consists of:* Ambroise Willaume - Vocals, guitar, piano* Christophe Musset - Vocals, guitar* Jérémie Arcache - Cello, vocals*...

19h00 - 00h45: Carmen Maria Vega - Cœur de pirate - Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Blanc known as Olivia Ruiz is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish origin belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.-Biography:...

- Cowboys Fringants

20h00 - 22h50: 340ml

340ml

340ml is an African musical group who originate from Maputo, Mozambique, but are now based in Johannesburg, South Africa. They have therefore jokingly been described by some as being "Jozambican". The band incorporates many different elements into their music including Dub, Jazz, Ska, Afro-jazz and...

- Madjo - Hindi Zahra

Hindi Zahra

Hindi Zahra is a Franco-Moroccan singer . She has a Moroccan mother and a French father. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song Imik Si Mik are in the Berber languages.Hindi Zahra grew up with her...

22h00 - 2h10: Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord is a hip hop group from Cape Town, South Africa, consisting of three members: Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek.-Background:...

- Health

HEALTH (band)

Health is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's 2007 release with Crystal Castles charted at position nine in the UK indie singles chart.- History :...

- Teenage Bad Girl - Gazelle - Lonelady

Lonelady

Julie Campbell, otherwise known as Lonelady , is a musician from Manchester, England. Her debut album, Nerve Up, appeared on Warp Records in 2010 and drew praise from Paul Morley.-Biography:...

- Delphic

Delphic

Delphic are an alternative dance band from Marple Bridge, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. They are signed to Polydor and released the single "Counterpoint" in April 2009 through R&S Records, produced by Ewan Pearson...

- Uffie

Uffie

Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

Friday, April 16

16h00 - 17h45: Alina Orlova

Alina Orlova

Alina Orlova is a Lithuanian sung poetry singer and musician.- Performing career :Orlova both composes her own songs and performs other musicians' cover versions...

- Sonia Wieder-Atherton & Bruno Fontaine

18h00 - 21h15: Chapelier Fou - Tunng

Tunng

Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom.The band is often associated with the folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work.-Biography:...

- Midlake

Midlake

Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas. The band first gained popularity in Europe, signing to Bella Union Records and playing at festivals such as Les Inrockuptibles, Wintercase, End Of The Road Festival and South by Southwest.-History:...

19h00 - 01h00: Black Joe Lewis

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears is a blues band influenced by Howlin' Wolf and James Brown. It was formed in Austin, Texas in 2007. In March 2009, Esquire listed Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears as one of the "Ten Bands Set to Break Out at 2009's SXSW Festival."While working at a pawn shop in...

- Gaetan Roussel

Gaëtan Roussel

Gaëtan Roussel is a French singer, songwriter and composer. Roussel is the former lead vocalist for the bands, Louise Attaque and Tarmac....

- Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela , also known as "El Rodri y La Gabi", are a Mexican musical duo who specialize in playing fast, rhythmic acoustic guitars...

- The John Butler Trio - Caravan Palace

Caravan Palace

Caravan Palace is a French Electroswing band based in Paris. The current band line-up consists of Sonia Fernandez Velasco , Arnaud Vial , Hugues Payen , Camille Chapelière , Charles Delaporte and Antoine Toustou...

20h00 - 22h45: The Fitzcarraldo Sessions - "The French" (Creation With Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Blanc known as Olivia Ruiz is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish origin belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.-Biography:...

Camille Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau

Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...

, Jeanne Cherhal

Jeanne Cherhal

, La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie

La Grande Sophie , is a French singer-songwriter who got her start in the mid-1990s in the Paris alternative scene.-Childhood:...

Rosemarie

Moriarty (band)

-History:Moriarty is made up of five artists of French, American, and Swiss origin. The members were mainly born in France to American parents. The group was named Moriarty in reference to Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road by Jack Kerouac....

Iko

Laurence Equilbey

Laurence Equilbey is a French conductor, particularly noted for her work in the choral repertoire.Equilbey studied piano and flute as a youth. She undertook formal music education in Paris, Vienna, London and Scandinavia...

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20h00 - 23h00: Nibs Van Der Spuy - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is an Indigenous Australian musician, who sings in the Yolngu language.He was born in Galiwin'ku , off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia about 350 miles from Darwin. He is from the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu and his mother from the Galpu nation...

- Nathalie Natiembé

22h00 - 02h10: Wave Machines

Wave Machines

Wave Machines is an alternative rock band formed in Liverpool in 2007. The band released singles The Greatest Escape We Ever Made and I Go I Go I Go on Chess Club Records before signing with Neapolitan Music Limited in 2008...

- Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold (band)

Fool's Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together Western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. The group started as a side project of musicians Luke Top and Lewis Pesacov , who set out to explore their shared love of various forms of African music ,...

- BLK JKS

BLK JKS

BLK JKS are a South African rock band from Johannesburg, formed in 2000. Their EP Mystery has been remastered for a 10 March release in the United States on the Secretly Canadian record label.-Albums:*2009: After Robots -Press:...

Saturday, April 17

18h00 - 20h30: Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....

& The Beam Orchestra - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

20h00 - 22h50: Nina Kinert

Nina Kinert

Nina Kinert is a Swedish musician/artist.Her sound is a mix between pop, folk and electronic music .In 2004 she released her first album "Heartbreaktown" with SonyMusic....

- Mustang - Arnaud Fleurent-Didier

20h00 - 05h00: Staff Benda Bilili

Staff Benda Bilili

Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They live around the grounds of the zoo in the countries capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in rumba, with elements of old-school rhythm 'n' blues and reggae...

- We Have Band - Pony Pony Run Run

Pony Pony Run Run

Pony Pony Run Run are a French power pop band from Angers formed in Nantes in 2003. The band line-up consists of three members named simply "G" , "A" and "T"...

- Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club are an indie rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2007, the band is composed of band members: Sam Halliday , Alex Trimble and Kevin Baird...

- Vitalic

Vitalic

Vitalic is an electronic music artist. He was born in France and is of Spanish and Italian descent.-History:His first singles were released in 1996 and 1997, but were confined to the underground electronic music scene...

- Mr Oizo - The Bloody Beetroots

The Bloody Beetroots

The Bloody Beetroots is an Italian electronica and dance music project. The Bloody Beetroots were formed in late 2006 by producer Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo . In 2008, their EP Cornelius was in the Top 100 International iTunes downloads. This album was a complete art project composed of music, videos,...

- Crookers

Crookers

Crookers are an Italian DJ/production duo who have worked together since 2003. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked...

- The Very Best - Foals - Brodinski - Sexy Sushi

Sexy Sushi

Sexy Sushi is a French electroclash band formed by Rebeka Warrior and Mitch Silver.Their first albums were released as burned CD-R by alternative distributors like Wonderground. An EP and an album were then released in 2009 by Scandale Records...

22h00 - 02h10: Ben Sharpa

Ben Sharpa

Kgotso Semela aka Ben Sharpa aka Oh Kaptin My Kaptin is a veteran underground rapper and music producer...

- Playdoe + Sweat X + The Real Estate Agents - Lexicon - Beat Assailant

Sunday, April 18

14h30 - 18h15: Danakil - Tété

Tété

Tété is a French musician, born in Dakar, Senegal on 25 July 1975. His mother is from Martinique and his father is from Senegal.Tété. He is known to be called the French version of Jeff Buckley. Tété's music is not "rock music"; it can more appropriately be described as an intimate, solo classical...

- Diam's

Diam's

Diam's is a French-language rap artist of French and Greek Cypriot origin. Her family moved to Essonne in 1984....

2011

(April 20 to 25)

Wednesday, April 20

19h30 - 0h00 : Zaz

Zaz (singer)

Isabelle Geffroy , better known by the nickname Zaz, is a French singer mixing jazzy styles, French variety, soul and acoustic. She is famous for her hit "Je veux", from her first album, Zaz, released on 10 May 2010....

- Ben L'Oncle Soul - Cali

Cali (singer)

21h00 - 1h35 : Oh La La - Corleone - I Am Un Chien !! - Asaf Avidan & Mojos

Asaf Avidan & Mojos

Asaf Avidan & The Mojos are an Israeli folk rock band that established in 2006 in Jerusalem.The beginning of the band was in Asaf Avidan's acoustic tour in Israel....

- Vismets - Royal Republic

Royal Republic

Royal Republic is a alternative rock band formed in Malmö, Sweden in late 2007. The band consists of guitarist/lead singer Adam Grahn, guitarist Hannes Irengård, bass guitarist Jonas Almén and drummer Per Andreasson....

- Hushpuppies

HushPuppies

Thursday, April 21

19h30 - 0h00 : La Fouine

La Fouine

Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his alias La Fouine or Fouiskin , is a French rapper of Moroccan origins from the city of Trappes, Yvelines in the Paris western suburbs. He is a growing figure of French rap. La Fouine signed with Sony Records in 2003 and released his debut album, Bourré au son,...

- Soprano

Soprano (rapper)

Soprano, born Saïd M'Roubaba in Marseille on 14 January 1979 is a French rapper of Comorian descent. He was a part of the rap group Psy 4 de la Rime...

- Sexion d'Assaut - Seth Gueko - Akhenaton

Akhenaton (rapper)

Philippe Fragione better known by his stage name Akhenaton is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre...

+ Faf Larage

Faf Larage

Faf Larage is a French rapper with roots in Madagascar and Réunion.-Biography:Born Raphael Mussard in Marseille, Larage made his debut in the group "Soul Swing And Radikal" under the pseudonym "Raff Rage". In 1998 he released his solo album titled C'est ma Cause...

20h00 - 23h30 : Brigitte - Moriarty

Moriarty (band)

- Catherine Ringer

Catherine Ringer

Catherine Ringer is a French singer, musician, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, and actress.Ringer started her professional career on stage in the late 1970s in productions with Michael Lonsdale's Théâtre de Recherche Musicale as well as musical and dance productions...

17h30 - 20h15 : Chocolate Genius, Inc.

Chocolate Genius, Inc.

Chocolate Genius, Inc. is a loose collective of musicians centered around Marc Anthony Thompson, a singer-songwriter from New York City....

- Youn Sun Nah - Baptiste Trotignon invites Miossec

Miossec

20h30 - 22h30 : L - Yael Naïm

Yael Naim

Yael Naïm , is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Yael Naïm was born in Paris, France to Tunisian Jewish...

21h00 - 1h35 : Milk Coffee And Sugar - Under Kontrol - Supa Hataz - Monkey And Bear - Wrestling Gang Bang - Christine - Pitcho - Paranoyan - Fowatile - DJ Brace - Turnsteak - (Trap)

Friday, April 22

19h00 - 01h00 : Aloe Blacc

Aloe Blacc

Aloe Blacc is an American soul singer, rapper, and musician.-Early career and Shine Through :...

- Angus & Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian brother-sister duo from Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Forming in 2005, their parents are both musical and played as a folk duo before Angus and Julia were born. At very young ages, their father introduced them to music and encouraged them to join...

- Aaron Hall - Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...

- Philippe Katerine

Philippe Katerine

Philippe Katerine is a French singer who began his career in 1991. Some of his popular singles include "Mon coeur balance", "Je vous emmerde" and "Louxor j'adore". Given that his songs are mainly in French, he hasn't gained much popularity outside of France...

18h00 - 0h00 : Dagoba

Dagoba

Dagoba may refer to:*Dagoba, the French metal band.* Dagoba Chocolate, a brand of organic chocolate.*Dagobah, the fictional planet from the Star Wars universeor*Stupa, the Buddhist building style....

- Septic Flesh

Septic Flesh

Septic Flesh is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, which was founded in 1990.- History :Septic Flesh was formed in March 1990 by Sotiris Vayenas , Spiros Antoniou , and Christos Antoniou , and quickly released a debut EP, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991...

- Punish Yourself

Punish Yourself

Punish Yourself is a French electronic rock band best known for their stage theatrics and innovative style of industrial/punk music. They describe their style as "Fluo Cyber Punk".-Current members:...

- Eluveitie

Eluveitie

Eluveitie is a folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland. The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, Vên came out in 2003. The band then released a full-length album, Spirit in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast....

- Epic

Epica (band)

Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen subsequent to his departure from After Forever. They are known for their symphonic sound and the use of female vocals and male growls performed by Simone Simons and Mark Jansen, respectively. All six members write...

- Kamelot

Kamelot

Kamelot is an American symphonic power metal band from Tampa, Florida. The band was formed by Thomas Youngblood and Richard Warner in 1991. Norwegian vocalist Roy Khan joined for the album Siége Perilous, and shared song-writing duties with Youngblood until his departure in April 2011.As of 2010,...

21h30 - 1h30 : Planningtorock - Lykke Li

Lykke Li

Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson , better known by her stage name Lykke Li , is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her music often blends elements of pop, indie rock and electronic; various instruments can also be found in her songs, including violins, synthesizers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones and cellos...

- The Shoes - Is Tropical - Housse De Racket - Logo - Carte Blanche

17h30 - 19h45 : Naby - African creation : Yeke Yeke !!! with Mayra Andrade

Mayra Andrade

- Cheikh Lô

Cheikh Lô

Cheikh N'Digel Lô is a Senegalese musician. He was born in the town of Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. Lô began playing drums and singing at an early age. He joined Orchestre Volta Jazz, an ensemble which played Cuban and Congolese pop songs as well as traditional Burkinabé music. Lô moved to...

– Sebastien_Martel - Victor Démé - Yael Naïm

Yael Naim

- David Donatien - Nicolas Repac - Vieux Farka Touré

Vieux Farka Touré

Boureima "Vieux" Farka Touré is a Malian singer and guitarist. He is the son of Grammy-winning Malian musician Ali Farka Touré.-Biography:Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali in 1981 to Ali Farka Touré...

- Piers Faccini

Piers Faccini

Piers Faccini is an English singer, painter and songwriter.-Biography:Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother...

- Mamani Keita

Mamani Keita

- Mory Kanté

Mory Kanté

Mory Kanté is a vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot musicians...

20h30 - 22h30 : Alice Lewis - Yael Naïm

Yael Naim

21h00 - 1h35 : Myciaa - Heartbeat Parade - François And The Atlas Mountains - Projet Vertigo - Reverso Mecanic - Lena Deluxe

Saturday, April 23

20h00 - 5h00 : Rock'n'Beat Party III with We Are Enfant Terrible - The Toxic Avenger - Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Beat Torrent - Ratatat

Ratatat

Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"...

- Cassius

Cassius (band)

Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

- Paul Kalkbrenner

Paul Kalkbrenner

Paul Kalkbrenner is a German electronic musician and actor from Berlin.-History:As of 2010, Paul Kalkbrenner has tallied up more than 15 years of experience as a producer and live act...

- Agoria - The Bewitched Hands - Metronomy

Metronomy

Metronomy are an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount , Anna Prior , Oscar Cash and Gbenga Adelekan...

- The Dø

The Dø

The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy . The duo has been backed on stage by three different drummers...

- The Subs - SebastiAn

16h30 - 19h45 : James Blake

James Blake (musician)

James Blake is a British electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from London, UK. On 6 January 2011, Blake was announced as runner-up in BBC's Sound of 2011 poll...

- Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre is a Canadian folk music project, featuring Mika Posen, Simon Trottier and Taylor Kirk. The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario....

- Agnes Obel

Agnes Obel

Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Denmark, Norway, Germany and other European countries. Since June 2011, Philharmonics is certified gold by the Belgian Entertainment Association for...

20h30 - 23h30 : Lise - Arlt - Yael Naïm

Yael Naim

21h00 - 1h10 : Quadron

Quadron

Quadron is a Danish duo consisting of singer Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj and musician/producer Robin Hannibal. The group calls itself and the music they provide, electronic soul....

- Filewile - Blitz the Ambassador

Blitz the Ambassador

Samuel Bazawule , known by the stage name Blitz the Ambassador, is a Ghanaian-American hip-hop artist and visual artist based in Brooklyn, USA.-Early life:...

- Young Fathers - True Live

True Live

True Live is an Australian jazz rap band formed in Melbourne, Australia. They had chart success with "TV" reaching #76 on the ARIA Single Chart and The Shape Of It reaching #85 on the ARIA Albums Chart...

- Pigeon John

Pigeon John

Pigeon John is an American hip hop rapper raised in Hawthorne, California and based in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Pigeon John is a Los Angeles area rapper who has recorded four studio albums as a solo artist, as well as several others as a member of the groups like L.A. Symphony and...

- Selah Sue

Selah Sue

Selah Sue, is a Belgian musician and songwriter. Her first EP was released in 2008, under the title Black Part Love. It contains five songs.-Background:...

12h30 - 15h30 : Yaa - My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter - Cracbooms - Transgunner - John Grape - Concrete Knives

Sunday, April 24

18h00 - 2h00 : Sunday Reggae with Huecco - Jaqee - Gentleman

Gentleman (musician)

Tilmann Otto , better known by his stage name Gentleman, is a German Reggae musician.- Personal life :...

- The Original Wailers - Alborosie

Alborosie

Alberto D'Ascola , better known by his stage name Alborosie, is an Italian reggae artist. Born and raised in Marsala, Sicily, Italy, but now residing in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a multi-instrumentalist, being proficient in guitar, bass, drums and keyboard...

- Tiken Jah Fakoly

Tiken Jah Fakoly

Tiken Jah Fakoly is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling his first group, Djelys, in 1987...

- Dub Incorporation

Dub Incorporation

Dub Incorporation is a reggae band from Saint-Étienne, France together since 1997. They combine a range of styles, including dancehall, dub, ska and even rap...

- Winston McAnuff

Winston McAnuff

Winston McAnuff, also known under the stage name Electric Dread, is a Jamaican singer and composer of reggae- and dub music.-Biography:...

& The Bazbaz Orchestra - Chinese Man - Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou

Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou

Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou are a band from Benin, which plays Afrobeat, Funk, Soukous and other styles, often based on Vodun ryhtmns. Active since the late 1960s, and having recorded around 500 songs, they are still touring around the world today, playing in venues such as London's Barbican...

16h30 - 19h30 : Jerome Van Den Hole - Mélanie Laurent

Mélanie Laurent

Mélanie Laurent is a French actress, director, singer and writer. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics...

- Florent Marchet

Florent Marchet

21h00 - 1h35 : Le Prince Miiaou - The Vaccines

The Vaccines

The Vaccines are an English indie rock band who formed in West London in 2010. The band's debut album, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?, was released through Columbia Records on 14 March 2011 and reached number 4 in the UK Album Chart. They are currently the biggest selling new band of 2011....

- Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhys

Gruffydd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008...

- Miles Kane

Miles Kane

Miles Peter Kane is an English musician originally from Meols on the Wirral near Liverpool, best known as the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and former frontman of The Rascals...

- Cascadeur - Gablé - Best Coast

Best Coast

Best Coast is an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles, California, and is often categorized under the subgenres of garage rock, surf pop, and lo-fi. The band currently consists of Bethany Cosentino, who writes all of the band's songs and fronts the group, multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, ...

- Anna Calvi

Anna Calvi

Anna Calvi is an English musician who plays in the band of the same name. On 6 December 2010, Calvi was announced as a nominee for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll. Her self-titled debut album was released in the UK on 17 January 2011, where it debuted at number 40 on 23 January...

13h00 - 15h30 : Simangavole - Mesparrow - Ladylike Lily - Peau - Pendentif

Monday, April 25

14h00 > : Giedré - Quadricolor - Djazia Satour - Fortune - Robin Leduc

14h00 > : Fill's Monkeys - Twin Twin - The Popopopops

14h00 > : Emynona - Rococo - The Twins - Lys - GRS Club

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