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...France has "world stars," ones that reach millions of spectators, too, even if they are not subsidized by the authorities: photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, author Yasmina Reza, designer Philippe Starck, Daft Punk and soprano Natalie Dessay...
...French culture [Dec. 3]. But there are plenty of emerging French artists, especially on the pop- and dance-music scene: David Guetta and Bob Sinclar both released international hit songs this year, albeit with Anglo-Saxon singers. Over the past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...
...fact that electronica duo Daft Punk has recorded a live album called “Alive 2007” begs two questions. One: why should we care about their bleep-blooping in general? And two: what’s the point of a live electronica album, besides pointing out the performance’s inherent irony? (Yeah, we get it: you’re two humans making “live” robot music. That’s funny.) With regard to the first question: because they’re popular and they’ve affected popular culture...
...almost as much attendance. And it's here that the McCain campaign feels like it has the advantage. At a town hall that McCain and Curt Schilling held here on Wednesday, for example, 400 people packed in, and fire marshals turned latecomers away. The opening music was from Irish punk band the Dropkick Murphys. There were lots of children and questions about A-Rod in addition to the usual ones about Iraq...
Herbie Hancock Nothing against Hancock, a fine gentleman and terrific musician, but even he had to wake up this morning and think Ashton Kutcher had finally delivered on Jazz Punk'd. This was one of the five best albums of the year? Really? If Hancock gets to perform at the ceremony, he better at least dust off the robots from "Rock It." He owes us that...