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Post punk is alive and kicking- and as the Stranglers prove, its legacy is intact. The British band headlines an exceptional concert at Ground Control in Paris, where they present tracks from their 18th studio album Dark Matters.

Ground Control

Guildford post-punk custodians The Stranglers put on a stunning set at Ground Control in Paris. 

The Stranglers

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In 2023, the elusive Slowdive stepped out of the shadows with their magnificent album Everything is Alive, giving new and longterm fans plenty of reasons to gaze at their shoes. Experience the heady fug worked up by these legendary Brits on this edition of Echoes with Jehnny Beth.

Echoes with Jehnny Beth

The legendary shoegaze of Slowdive glides onto Echoes with Jehnny Beth.

Slowdive

Jessica Winter's arrival as a fully formed formed category-defying pop act has a compelling musical journey behind it: From a bedridden childhood to coming up in Portsmouth's punk scene- then on to the South London backdrops as one half of "sad" underground electro indie group PREGOBLIN, Winter's music has only grown more taut, more playful, more complex. Her mutant pop takes cues from diverse influences: Trap, chanteuses, 80s pop a la Kate Bush, indie, electroclash... Indefinable, but fantastic. 

Jessica Winter brings glistening pop and slippery thrills to ARTE Concert Festival 2023

The sound of the 80s if it was remixed by a wormhole: Jessica Winter lands in Paris. 

Jessica Winter

Fighting parental disapproval and industry indifference (at first) Zurich-raised Priya Ragu fought her way onto the tongues of tastemakers across the world with her debut mixtape damnshestamil. Her latest album Santhosam, pop-rnb heavily influenced by her family's Tamil origins, sees her take enormous strides forward towards establishing herself as an artist to be reckoned with in years to come. 

ARTE Concert Festival 2023

Priya Ragu comes to the ARTE Concert Festival from Switzerland via Sri Lanka, with a smooth, innovative pop sound that is all her own. 

Priya Ragu

Scottish experimentalists Young Fathers bring their riotous energy to Paris for Echoes with Jehnny Beth. An incredible performance incorporating material from their latest album Heavy Heavy, a celebratory collection steeped in the joy of communal music. 

Sensational Scottish band Young Fathers bring their heavy indie-experimental sound to Paris.

Young Fathers

In the 2000s they brought style back to rock and dance back to punk: Now the classic Scottish group bring their angular hooks to Musilac Festival on the banks of France's deepest lake. 

Musilac 2023

The Scottish art punks get the shore of the Lac du Bourget rocking at Musilac 2023.

Franz Ferdinand

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At the risk of upsetting the true pioneers of the genre across the Atlantic, UK pop and rock has distinguished itself through unending creativity and high standards consistently renewed by the country's different generations of artists. Here's a brief overview of the British rock and pop scene.

From eccentric rock to creative pop, here's an overview of the contemporary British scene.

British Rock & Pop Music

Three evenings of music from the Gaîté Lyrique theatre in Paris; the ARTE Concert Festival is back!

ARTE Concert Festival

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When it comes to orthodontic problems, everyone prefers to forget about them... Everyone, that is, except Billie Eilish. TAPE finds out why.

Billie Eilish

A joyous return to the stage for Zach Condon and his European folk-focussed indie project Beirut. This is music as imagined landscape, a romantic sweep of Europe's past through the eyes of an American troubadour. From his Balkan-tinged debut in 2006, through a bohemian France dreamed up on 2007's The Flying Cup Club and on towards the Dutch and Mexican influences of his later material, Beirut is clearly the work of a singular vision while remaining hauntingly familiar, a half-remembered dream of a past life. Latest album Hadsel was inspired by a short time spent exiled in northern Norway, an emotional return to form released in 2023.

Live in Berlin's Tempodrom

After some time in the wilderness, Zach Condon leads his romantic indie-folk project to a triumphant return to the stage.

Beirut

Hania Rani was born in Poland and now divides her time between Warsaw and Berlin. Between these two cities, the pianist composes subtle and sensitive music reminiscent of Philip Glass or Erik Satie.

Piano Day 2022

Hania Rani

Squid bring the full knotty force of their writhing rock to a willing audience in Paris for Echoes with Jehnny Beth. This English group wear their experimentation loud and proud, introducing a touch of rural weird into their sprawling sound with latest album O Monolith.

Squid bring their complex, tangled experimental rock to Echoes with Jehnny Beth.

Squid

Sleaford Mods perform on Echoes With Jehnny Beth. The UK duo bring all the aggressive and absurd energy present in their latest opus UK Grim, their twelfth album released in 2023.

Echoes With Jehnny Beth

UK spoken word assassins Sleaford Mods perform for Echoes with Jehnny Beth.

Sleaford Mods

Argentine artist La Yegros gets the Cabaret Sauvage crowd in Paris dancing to the rhythm of her fearsome nu-cumbia. Her fourth album HAZ successfully blends genres across eras.

Journeys Through Music

La Yegros shares all the colors of Latin America with the lucky audience of this edition of Journeys Through Music.

La Yegros

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter Sevdaliza mixes electronic, indie, trip-hop and r'n'b. In Passengers, she performs from her latest album Shabrang at the Arts et Métiers Museum in Paris.

Passengers: Paris Arts et Métiers Museum

Sevdaliza

Go_A combine traditional Ukrainian songs with electro for an explosive result. Dance along to their stunning Europavox Session from 2022.

Europavox 2022

Go_A

Jann is among Poland's fastest-rising pop stars. Having won the hearts of his compatriots, the singer now turns to Europe with this flamboyant performance at the Eurosonic festival.

Eurosonic 2024

Polish pop revelation Jann on the ESNS festival stage.

Jann

MARO proves she is the pride of Portugal once again as she represents her country at Eurosonic 2024. We met her for a session organized in an unusual location: a cheese factory.

Portuguese musician MARO performs in a Dutch cheese factory for Eurosonic 2024.

MARO

Allow yourself to be charmed by Belgian pop smoothy Loverman: An extract from an assured performance at Eurosonic 2024.

Indie crooner Loverman comes to Eurosonic from Belgium with a lush, dark sound. 

Loverman

Dutch band Sarah Julia performs Cairngorms for a special session filmed at the 2024 Eurosonic festival. Warm and comforting.

The enchanting vocals of the Sarah Julia band fill Eurosonic 2024 with warmth.

Sarah Julia

Irish up-and-coming singer CMAT performs her material with a healthy dose of humour at Eurosonic. An extravagant performance from this generous artist.

Irish pop sensation CMAT performs at Eurosonic.

CMAT

A multicultural session with the AySay band, who mix Danish, Kurdish and Turkish influences to build their own original sound world for Eurosonic.

Danish, Kurdish and Turkish cultures meet at Eurosonic through AySay.

AySay

The British band Jungle represents neo-soul with broken rhythms that stay extremely danceable. They copied the sound and style from legendary artists such as Daft Punk, Chet Baker and Thom Yorke. The result is a rich, sun-drenched sound. Jungle performs for ARTE in the Paris Metro.

Passengers: Paris Metro

Jungle performs for ARTE in the Paris Metro. The British duo will play their greatest hits.

Jungle

For one night, Dutch band The Analogues are bringing the Beatles back to Paris for this special tribute concert. Lucky concertgoers can once again return to the unique world created by the Fab Four at the French capital's famed venue Salle Pleyel.

The Analogues at Paris' Salle Pleyel

The Analogues pore through the Beatles' discography to perform a few favourites at Salle Pleyel in Paris.

Hommage to the Beatles

Infusing punk rock with a spoken word sensibility, Ireland's Enola Gay bring untamed wildness to Echoes with Jehnny Beth. An explosive encounter with their first two EPs: Gransha and Casement.

Ireland's Enola Gay unleash punk-rock fury on Echoes With Jehnny Beth.

Enola Gay

German-British musician Anika is the guest for this edition of Echoes With Jehnny Beth. Originally a political journalist in the UK, she gravitated towards music after recording with Portishead's Geoff Barrow, going on to front her own band Exploded View before going solo. She performs a selection of new songs from her second and latest album Change.

Jehnny Beth brings Anika onstage for this electrifying edition of Echoes, inviting the audience into her sensitive, heady universe.

Anika

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Allegations against R. Kelly have dogged the R’n’B star for decades. With alleged sexual abuse and child pornography, can we still listen to R. Kelly songs?

R. Kelly

PJ Harvey plays a typically magnetic, no-nonsense performance to a packed audience at the Paris Olympia, bringing together some of her older hits with newer material from her tenth album: I Inside the Old Year Dying.

L'Olympia Paris

Cult songsmith PJ Harvey takes Paris' L'Olympia by storm with material from new album I Inside the Old Year Dying.

PJ Harvey

To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing. He's always been fighting for our right to enjoy a better future than the one we are making for ourselves. Perhaps a strange mission for someone with punk musical roots?

Sting

Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing

Asaf Avidan took the world by storm with his hit "Reckoning Song" and an unmistakeable voice quivering with emotion. Here, the artist explores more personal territory in a fragile, intimate moment showcasing his qualities as a songwriter and composer. 

Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

After becoming world-famous with his hit "Reckoning Song", the Israeli musician returns to performing solo. 

Asaf Avidan

Hania Rani has a gift in creating moments of intimate communion with her audience using only her fingertips, one reason why this Polish pianist is seeing her star rise in the neoclassical world. Her liberated, graceful playing defies codes and labels, while her startling melodies captivate and transport audiences. For this unmissable concert, Hania Rani  performs alongside Ziemowit Klimek.

Witness this rising star of neoclassical piano suspend time using only her fingertips.

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop. 

Kate Bush

Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop.

With her heart on her sleeve and a steely glint in her eye, Jehnny Beth is here to urge you to live and love with the customary intensity she brings to all her live performances, whether it's part of her former band Savages or solo. Expect firebrand renditions of tracks from her debut album TO LOVE IS TO LIVE.

The incandescent Jehnny Beth brings her ravenous love of life to Paris' Gaîté Lyrique.

Jehnny Beth

In a special private concert in Paris, Greg Gonzales and his band perform from their newly released second album, ‘Cry’.

Cigarettes After Sex in Private Paris Concert

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One of the last chances to catch a Sum 41 concert: After 27 years of gently rebellious pop-punking, the band have announced they are to split up. Expect this set to be All Killer, No Filler. 

Hellfest 2023

Hellfest 2023 marks one of the last concerts for Sum 41 before the group split.

Sum 41

To accompany the release of their first album in 1967, the Doors send their biographies to the press. The bio of their singer Jim Morrison is worth a second look. Full name: Jim Douglas Morrison. Eye color: blue. Parents: dead. Hmm… Really?

The Doors

Why did Jim Morrison lie to the press about his parents being dead?

Smashing together English post-punk with Italian chanson, Brussels-based Ada Oda is a truly European rock group. After forming during lockdown, their exuberant first LP Un Amore Debole was released in late 2022.

Europavox Sessions 2023

Ada Oda sits at the crossroads between stark British post-punk and Italian variety music. 

Ada Oda

The beautiful voice of Icelandic folk artist Arny Margret is like a warm blanket after hiking a volcanic glacier. Her comforting debut album They Only Talk About the Weather was released in late 2022. 

Wrap yourself in the delicate warmth of Icelandic folk artist Arny Margret.

Arny Margret

Fran Vasilić has social media to thank for kickstarting his musical career: The young Croatian artist has built a global audience of millions with his idiosyncratic pop music, inspired by American slacker indie and old Yugoslavian pop. 

The off-kilter pop from Croatian artist Fran Vasilić arrives at Europavox ready to move feet and warm hearts. 

Fran Vasilić

Love'n'Joy are three young Ukrainians heavily inspired by the golden age of British psych in the 60s and 70s. Now exiled to Berlin, they've toured heavily since last year in support of their foundation "Musicians Defend Ukraine." 

It's all there in the name: These three young Ukrainians hope to spread good vibes at Europavox and beyond. 

Love'n'Joy

With their invigorating sound sitting somewhere between new wave and punk, Zimbru has recently been sending tremors through the Romanian underground. For Europavox, they've brought orchestral synths, ecstatic soundscapes and a large dose of magical realism.

Pillars of the Romanian underground come to Europavox festival.

Zimbru

Marina Satti boldly marches through musical frontiers. This Greek artist with Sudanese roots gleefully draws on Arabic pop and Balkan folk to create her uniquely Aegean hip hop sound. 

Marina Satti demonstrates her global influences and magnificent talent at Europavox Festival.

Marina Satti

A triumphant return to the road for Josh Homme's mighty band, with a new album in tow. In Times New Roman marks the first new music to come from the Queens since 2017. The world may have changed considerably since then but Homme's crew remain as indefinable, majestic and heavy rocking as ever. Don't miss this incendiary set from Lyon's Nuits des Fourvières festival. 

Nuits de Fourvière 2023

Queens of the Stone Age are back out on the road and ready to remind Europe of their heavy rock majesty. 

Queens of the Stone Age

Neo-soul and a whole lot more. Since wowing European audiences with her hit-filled eponymous album in 2011, Belgium's Saleh Sue has become a household name in her home country for her powerful singing voice and mental health campaigning. The title for latest album Persona was inspired by her experiences of voice dialogue therapy.

One of Belgium's most sensational voices shares her talent at Musilac festival.

Selah Sue

Midlands soulman Jacob Banks has made it to Montreux Jazz, Europe's biggest jazz festival. Second album Lies About the War perfectly demonstrates this rising star's blend of soul, RnB and Hip Hop.

Montreux Jazz Festival 2023

The rising star of British soul at one of the world's biggest jazz festivals. 

Jacob Banks

Surrealist mystique from French singer Fishbach, bringing her retro tinged pop to the stage at Les Nuits Secrètes. A set that manages to be at once melancholy and danceable, just like her last album Avec les Yeux.

Les Nuits Secrètes 2023

Head down an 80s wormhole with Fishbach at the Nuits Secrètes festival. 

Fishbach

California garage scene titans Osees are back to ruffle some feathers at La Route du Rock. The group are ready to unleash the full power and fury of their back-to-basics 2022 album A Foul Form.

La Route du Rock 2023

The Osees troublemakers ruffle feathers at La Route du Rock.

Osees

Brooklyn band Bodega have a lot to say about the evils of modern living, but they're always ready to couch their gripes in catchy riffs and punk defiance. They bring new tracks from their 2022 album Broken Equipment to La Route du Rock. 

Punk riffs and modern malaise: Brooklyn band Bodega bring wit and fuzz to La Route du Rock.

Bodega

The Brian Jonestown Massacre enter their fourth decade with frontman Anton Newcombe's uncompromising vision and focus undiminished and as creatively fertile as ever, all on display on latest album The Future is Your Past. For newcomers, the band works as a vehicle for Newcombe's obession with 60s rock, 90s shoegaze and all the best bits in between, somehow remaining an original and singular vision of one man's love for music.

The notoriously talented Anton Newcombe and his band of tricksters return to La Route du Rock.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Brighton post-punkers Squid started making waves after a string of original singles showcasing their tension-filled, nervy sound drawing on influences as far flung as dub, This Heat-style experimentation and classic 70s British post punk. Their anxious debut Bright Green Field shone a light on Britain's modern malaise and saw them heralded alongside contemporaries Black Midi and Black Country, New Road for signposting exciting new directions for English rock. They bring their latest album O Monolith to La Route du Rock.

Wriggling, cerebal post-punk from one of the groups at the vanguard of modern British rock.

How many albums have they released this year? Probably three more by the time you read this. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have built a rapid fan following across the globe over the past few years for their legendary live shows, their jawdropping prolificacy - and their stubborn refusal to be tied down. From mutant funk to facemelting garage psych, from ambient jams to thrash metal, the 'Gizz has tackled them all with their trademark freewheeling nonchalance.

The reptilian overlords of genre-hopping psych give an unmissable powerhouse performance at La Route du Rock.