A new video from Sexion d'Assaut, the giants of French hip hop, another track from their album L'Apogée.
L'Apogée was released earlier this year, and has gone on to be probably the biggest French rap album ever. It has already sold triple platinum and with the continued release of songs as singles it certainly seems to have plenty of commercial life left in it.
A new edition of the CD sees it released with a bonus disc of six out-takes.
The video for the single was shot at Bercy in Paris and previews a Live à Bercy CD and DVD that was released earlier this month.
They have some live dates before the end of the year, and tour extensively in France, Switzerland in March, April and May next year.
Repeated listening to the collection reveals its full cinematic qualities, caverous and haunted but with a driving urgent quality.
Lescop's previous musical outing with Asyl saw him explore the more art-informed end of the punk spectrum, simultaneously earthy and literate, in the interzone where Iggy Pop meets Dostoyevsky.
A live performance of the track Pourquoi vous, from the new album L'amour fou by Françoise Hardy.
Hardy has been one of France's best known female performers since her career began in the early 1960s. Her song Tous les garçons et les filles was one of the biggest hits of the yé-yé era.
Her style saw her achieve an iconic status that hasn't diminished over the years
Hardy's career saw her move to a more thoughtful music, performing in a number of languages including English, interpreting songs by the likes of Gainsbourg and Leonard Cohen, and performing with the likes of Blur and Iggy Pop.
She also pursued her interest in astrology and published her autobiography in 2008.
Her music's always had a timeless quality, to the point that I thought for some time her early 70s album "If you listen" was one of her recent releases after she re-emerged with her 1996 album Le Danger.
Since then she's recorded several albums, including Clair Obscur that featured duets with other snigers including her husband Jacques Dutronc, a Victoires de la musique award on the back of the success of 2004's Tand de belles choses collection, a Grande Médaille de la chanson française award in 2006 followed by another collection of duets, the platinum selling (Parenthèses…) album, featuring amongst others Alain Delon, Alain Bashung and Julio Iglesias.
Her last release was 2010's La pluie sans parapluie album.
The album L'amour fou was released earlier this month, coinciding with a novel of the same title.
A look ahead to a new release by Nolwenn Leroy later this month, the track Juste pour me Souvenir from the forthcoming album Ô Filles de l'Eau.
Her last album Bretonne, released in 2010, saw the former Star Academy winner establish herself as a major star in France. The album took traditional Breton and celtic songs along with modern works of a similar style, going to number one in France's album chart for eight weeks and one of the biggest selling albums of 2011.
Nolwenn won the second series of Star academy, releasing her debut album in 2003. That album was a platinum seller, and she also scored a number one single with Cassé, the success of Star Academy no doubt helping establish her career. But the longevity of her career is more down to her own talent rather than the work of TF1.
It's hard to imaging a singer from a reality show in the UK having the same success with an album of songs in gaelic.
The song suggests Nolwenn will be continuing the modern folk pop sound of Bretonne, the songs on a theme of the sea.
The album Ô Filles de l'Eau is release on November 26, and Nolwenn also gives her voice to the character of the Tooth Fairy (La Fée des dents) in the French version of the new Dreamworks animated film Rise of the Guardians, a role played by Isla Fisher in the English version of the film.
Nolwenn Leroy plays some dates in France in December, including three nights at the Olympia in Paris.
I'm sure for many a new album by Johnny Hallyday would be met with little more than a shrug of the shoulders. More of the same, no surprises here, nothing worth writing about.
But Johnny merits more than this, and not just out of nostalgia or giving him the benefit of his status. For a British listener, if anything Johnny's history and celebrity is more of an obstacle as it's a history we're not part of and a celebrity we're not generally aware of.
We're left with a singer, with one of the most exceptional voices in rock, and whatever musical resources he could want at his disposal, from songwriters to musicians.
Meanwhile, the voice remains in excellent form, despite scares in recent years that medical damage could have taken its toll.
While his work doesn't have the stark bleakness of late-period Johnny Cash, Hallyday was never all about that. The album's an affirmation that for his age, Johnny's in apparently good shape and in a good place.
johnny could have chosen to take it easy and just rehashed some of his past glories, but I don't think that as an artist this course of action would have satisfied him. Even now he's trying new songs, new work and tour dates that see him playing new places.
Of course, there are those who point to the disappointing sales of Jamais Seul as evidence of a talent on the wane. However, this should be seen in the light of all album sales being disappointing now, with speculation that the very concept of an album released on CD might be coming to the end of its tenure as a viable medium. remember that Rihanna, one of the biggest artists internationally at the moment, topped the UK album charts in August with under 10,000 physical and online sales, a UK all time low for a number one.
But the real test is not in sales of the album, or even what the critics think. At the end of the day, it it how the album compares to his other work. While not groundbreaking, L'attente is a collection that holds its head up well amidst one of the most extensive back catalogues in modern music.
A new release from M, with his sixth full studio album, entitled Îl coming out in France.
The single Mojo was released in September, followed by a video a few weeks later.
The album was recorded in Los Angeles earlier this year.
His last full release was 2009 Mister Mystère, he's been far from idle since with the sountrack for Un monstre à Paris last year and a live album the previous year, not forgetting his collaborative work with Johnny Hallyday on his Jamais Seul collection.
In his career so far, Matthieu Chedid has picked up eight Victoires de la musique awards, along with a César Award for soundtrack work, and it would be no surprise if there are more awards ahead for one of France's most highly regarded and talented contemporary artists.
His live dates in France next year are certainly going to be one of the most anticipated shows of the year.
This year, Johnny Hallyday's cover of the French resistance classic le Chant des Partisans.
The song was written by Anna Marly during the war, and was adopted by the French Free Forces and the Resistance fighters in France.
I posted last year about how the tragedy of war is marked in France as everywhere else in Europe, with the sacrifices made by soldiers, civilians and resistance fighters remembered with pride and sadness.
With the hectares of mass graves and the 'Mort Pour La France' plaques adorning walls throughout the country, the toll of war is impossible to forget in France.
We should always remember and continue to hope for the possibility of peace.
