Cloudspeakers

Faire un film sur la “vie héroïque” de Serge Gainsbourg était déjà une entreprise périlleuse. En concevoir la BO sans tomber dans la facilité du best-of s’apparentait carrément à se ... Read more

The first full trailer for Joann Sfar’s biopic Serge Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) launched yesterday, and—what a shocker—there’s a naked chick in the first twelve s... Read more

Though he’s likely better known as the hound-dog face of caricatured pervy Franco pop (what other recording artist would possibly want themselves photographed holding a silver dildo?), the prolific... Read more

Conceived by the late, great French songwriter as a tribute to his young actress girlfriend Jane Birkin, this 1971 concept disc plays like a European art film that's simultaneously ridiculous and s... Read more

The raw-voiced Serge Gainsbourg may have been one ugly fuck, but he sure made the ladies swoon whenever he lit up a Gitane and sang. This reissue of 1971's Histoire De Melody Nelson is Gainsbourg's... Read more

The album Histoire de Melody Nelson ranks among the most influential works ever released by the late French singer, poet, writer, actor, and director Serge Gainsbourg. This U.S. only re-release by ... Read more

Serge Gainsbourg already had a well-established reputation for outrage when he released Histoire De Melody Nelson in 1971. He sent a teenage France Gall up the charts singing a song about enjoying ... Read more

Serge Gainsbourg had no great attachment to genre. By the time he came to rock music, in his early 40s, the French star had traced his oblique, provocative course through chanson (French vocal musi... Read more

As much as classic French pop music is fetishized by American artists, it's somewhat remarkable at how limited access to it is in the United States. It's not hard to find an Edith Piaf collection o... Read more