Stromae and Kanye West at the Coachella festival

An appearance at the Coachella festival at the weekend saw Stromae appear with US rap megastar Kanye West.

West appeared during a performance of Alors On Danse, Stromae's first massive hit track, The song was remixed by Kanye West in 2010.

The Coachella festival in California is one of the USA's highest profile festivals and the attention from Kanye West will no doubt raise the awareness in the US of Belgium's biggest export since fantastically strong beer.

Coachella is held over two weekends, and there were also performances by French artists Yelle, Gesaffelstein and David Guetta.

Stromae has recently confirmed more live sates, this time in Africa. He'll be performing in Sénégal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon Cameroun, as well as  a  show in Rwanda, where his father originally came from.

François Hollande and Jay-Z

I earlier featured Nicolas Sarkozy's Deezer playlist that was released as part of the presidential election campaign, so to remove any accusation of political bias, I thought that François Hollande deserved a mention.

Hollande's latest campaign video is a bold move to capture the vote of the ethnic population and the resident of the banlieues, a potentially large electorate that is too frequently excluded from the political debate.

For all its well-meaning intent, it's pretty funny. There can't be many party political broadcasts that feature the word "motherfucker" so frequently. Hollande probably couldn't be whiter or less urban street credible if he tried, and that's before you consider the notion of him hanging with his crew of Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Wonder what they would make of the Parti Socialiste massive.

Worth noticing how little you actually see of "FH" in the video, with much more time being given to the voices and faces of voters.

Much of politics is about politicians winning over people who would normally be outside their sphere of influence, and at least he's trying.

There are still 11 days until the first round of voting. If a week in politics is a long time, there will certainly be more twists and turns before the final vote is cast.