Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form/shape' in German, like the Bauhaus diary, and is a play on the English homonym 'deform' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (deformed).
Montreuil, also known unofficially as Montreuil-sous-Bois, is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.6 km (4.1 mi) from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and in the Métropole du Grand Paris. With a population of 111,367 as of 2020, Montreuil is the third most populous suburb of Paris after Boulogne-Billancourt and Saint-Denis. It is located north of Paris's Bois de Vincennes, on the border with Val-de-Marne.
Bérurier Noir was a French punk rock band active from 1983 to 1989. The band reformed from 2003 to 2006. The band is associated with anarcho-punk.
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales is a music festival that lasts for 3 or 4 days. It is held annually in December. The festival takes place in Rennes, Brittany, France. Since the festival's beginning, it has been renowned for revealing the "next big thing" in music. The festival has become one of the most significant musical events in Europe, attracting over 62,000 people in 2013. It attracted over 80 groups and artists from over 26 nationalities and music industry professionals coming from all continents.
French rock is a form of rock music produced in France, primarily with lyrics in the French language.
Bags were an American punk rock band formed in 1977, one of the first generation of punk rock bands to emerge from Los Angeles, California.
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara was a French singer of Italian descent, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian.
Kukl was an Icelandic post-punk group in the 1980s, most notable for being one of Björk's first bands.
V.I.S.A. is a French independent record label created in 1982 by Thierry De Lavau and Yves Lecarpentier.
Ludwig von 88 is a French punk rock and alternative rock band mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s, celebrated in the French underground scene. In 2019, the band released their first album in a decade, and have continued to remain active, releasing a further four albums in 2023 to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Their music is quite similar to that of influent French punks Bérurier Noir : two-fingered and distorted guitar chords and drum machine as a drummer but can also imitate reggae or medieval music. Their lyrics evolved along their career from nonsensical and often juvenile humour to something more serious and sometimes social and political.
Rotorelief is an independent, self-financed French label founded in 2005. Through its catalog, the label offers a wide range of conceptual albums in the experimental and psychedelic area, new releases to discover and also numerous CD and vinyl reissues, sometimes revisited and augmented. The label has also worked hard to discover or rediscover little-known nuggets from France's post-industrial music scene around the '80s, as well as some of the international pioneers of this old-school noise and industrial scene. The catalog also includes a number of UFO nuggets from the 60s and 70s, psychedelic and krautrock projects, cold wave and post-punk pop from the 80s, and very recently, current crossover industrial hip hop artists... A few masters of free-jazz and deviant rock have also joined the catalog.
Les Hurlements d'Léo is a French alternative rock band from Bordeaux, France. Currently an eight-piece, they have been influenced by the likes of Les Négresses Vertes and combine traditional French sounds with sounds of gypsy, Latin, ska, punk, and energetic rock.
French punk is punk rock from France. Punk rock developed in France in the mid-1970s, strongly influenced by the scenes in the United States and United Kingdom, but also influencing the latter. The first European Punk Rock Festival took place at Mont-de-Marsan in France in August 1976.
Franck Deweare, also known by his stage name Deweare, and previously as Franck Marx, is a musician native to Verdun, France, who has been based out of Montreal, Quebec since 2004. Deweare's style, both lyrically and vocally, has been compared to that of Serge Gainsbourg, due to his rough yet seductive voice and dark lyrics.
Les Stups is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1989 in Montreal, Quebec.
Red Cardell is a French, Breton rock band, that mixes Breton music with rock, folk, blues, world music and chanson réaliste.
The Asexuals is a hardcore punk band from Beaconsfield that was a mainstay of the Montreal punk scene in the 1980s before changing into an alternative band following the departure of singer John Kastner. Kastner left to form the Doughboys and later, All Systems Go!.
Opera Multi Steel, often abbreviated as OMS, is a French minimal synth and coldwave band, originally founded in Bourges in 1983 by Franck Lopez, Patrick L. Robin and Catherine Marie.
Noël Rota, better known by his stage name Helno, was a French singer and member of the alternative rock bands Lucrate Milk, Bérurier Noir, and Les Négresses Vertes.
Schlaasss is a music group from Saint-Étienne, France, formed in 2012. The band consists of Charlie Dirty Duran (vocals), Daddy Schwartz (vocals), Kiki, and Mekki (videos). Schlaasss' musical style blends punk, rap and electronic music.
