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Could there be a more beautiful association? One of the rarest jewels of British pop from the last thirty years in the historic venue responsible for preserving France's literary heritage. Beth Gibbons performs at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the heart of Paris: Two indispensable figures working in the shadows in a quest for eternity.

Passengers: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

This rare jewel of British pop in the historic venue responsible for preserving France's literary heritage.

Beth Gibbons

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A soulful baritone with a velvet voice, Seal defied his father's wishes to launch his musical career. It was with ‘Crazy’ and ‘Kiss from a Rose’ that he became a worldwide star, selling over 30 million albums and winning four Grammy awards. After a break for health reasons, he is back performing at the Baloise Session 2024 with a selection of jazz standards.

Baloise Session 2024

A soulful baritone with a warm, powerful tone, this four-time Grammy winner has left an indelible mark on pop.

Seal

The unclassifiable Róisín Murphy shows how difficult it is to pigeonhole her once again at Paris' Ground Control, where she displays all the richness and eclecticism of a discography stretching back to the 90s.

Ground Control

Protean pop star Róisín Murphy on stage at Paris' Ground Control.

Róisín Murphy

Porridge Radio unleash their heartfelt indie rock on the ARTE Concert Festival stage. A royal introduction to the album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (2024).

ARTE Concert Festival 2024

Disillusioned indie rock straight from Brighton, England.

Porridge Radio

 Songwriting master Bill Ryder-Jones demonstrates his talent in the historic foyer of the Paris' Gaîté Lyrique for the ARTE Concert Festival.

The orchestral folk of Bill Ryder-Jones in the historic foyer of Paris' Gaîté Lyrique.

Bill Ryder-Jones

Lala &ce's striking personality and universe make her a unique figure in French rap. She brings tracks from her latest album Solstice to the ARTE Concert Festival.

ARTE Concert Festival 2024 

Lala &ce turn up the heat at Paris' Gaîté Lyrique with their carnal, queer rap.

Lala &ce

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Discover the intimate and elegant atmosphere of Basel’s indoor festival where great names of music perform in a cabaret club atmosphere.

Baloise Session

As the days get shorter, it's the perfect excuse to curl up with a blanket after a hard day's work. It's the perfect opportunity to lie back and let yourself be carried away by the comforting atmosphere of this selection of intimate concerts. Acoustic, jazzy, folk... All the ingredients for a delightful musical hibernation.

Stretch out in comfort and let yourself be carried away by the wintry ambience of this selection of intimate concerts.

Cosy & Comfy

'Folk' in this sense means suspended moments onstage, where acoustic purity and subtle arrangements transport us into an enchanting universe. Between poetry, delicacy and emotion, this collection has all the ingredients for a sweet musical suspension.

Pared-down performances, delicate vocals and poetic lyrics: immerse yourself in the sensitive world of folk.

Folk

The village of Neuhausen ob Eck, near Lake Constance, attracts fans from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. Rap, pop, rock or electro: there's no need to go without at Southside. A festival with something for everyone, which is often one step ahead of the rest.

One of Germany's biggest pop and rock festivals, attracting around 65,000 visitors every year.

Southside Festival

Inventive pop, light-hearted poetry and chic variety: Zoom in on the French-language music scene which has been booming with fresh energy, driven by original voices and strong lyrical sensibilities. Infectious, bold and authentic energy to be savoured like a fine cheese on ARTE Concert.

Inventive sounds, casual poetry and chic variety: Putting the spotlight on French-speaking artists!

French Pop

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

Metal

Electronic

Hip-hop

Jazz

World

Parcourir les genres

Electro artist Kid Francescoli performs his latest album Lovers, from a boat cruising down the Seine. Recorded 6 July 2020 in Paris.

Passengers: La Seine

Kid Francescoli

In 2019, Quincy Jones came to Paris to celebrate his prolific career and his special place in pop music history. The man with 27 Grammy Awards arranged, composed, produced and orchestrated for some of America's most legendary artists such as Louis Armstrong, Barbara Streisand and Michael Jackson: Here his greatest hits are performed by a host of talented musicians including Ibrahim Maalouf, Shelea, Selah Sue and Véronique Sanson.

A Musical Celebration

In 2019, Quincy Jones came to Paris to celebrate his prolific career and his special place in pop music history.

Quincy Jones

In the mythic Paris venue, Belgian artist Tamino performs tracks from his intimate and melancholy debut album, Amir. Recorded on 19 November 2019.  

Paris Olympia

Tamino

Piano virtuoso Sofiane Pamart was just 4 years old when he took up the piano. A child prodigy with an ultra-competitive spirit, he proclaimed himself the ‘Piano King’ and clearly defined his ambitions: To be the world's number one piano player.

Piano Day 2021

Sofiane Pamart plays the extended version of his solo album Planet Gold, released in 2020.

Sofiane Pamart

Annie Clark- AKA St. Vincent- is one of the most elusive figures in world rock. Yet here she is headlining the ARTE Concert Festival 2024 to mark the release of her album All Born Screaming.

The rock chameleon appears live at the ARTE Concert Festival.

St. Vincent

Marem Ladson performs at Paris' Gaîté Lyrique, sharing all the sweetness and emotion of her folk universe with the ARTE Concert Festival audience.

Broadcasting from somewhere between Spain and the United States, Marem Ladson's folk arrives at the ARTE Concert Festival.

Marem Ladson

The Tshegue phenomenon takes control at Ground Control. The Franco-Congolese duo will be promoting their latest Argent EP, released in autumn 2024.

Tshegue unites Paris and Kinshasa from the Ground Control launchpad.

Tshegue

With Rumours, Fleetwood Mac used divorce as an artistic muse... and revolutionised rock music in the process.

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac's ‘Rumours’ album chronicles three divorces.

TAPE

Incredible but true: Dexter Holland, the frontman of The Offspring, has a doctorate in molecular biology. But a punk researcher in hard sciences isn't such a rare breed after all...

The Offspring

Incredible but true: Dexter Holland, the frontman of The Offspring, has a doctorate in molecular biology.

Still relatively unknown, this young singer has already been making a name for herself with her unique visual and sonic universe. With its hyperpop accents, frantic vocoder and bubblegum aesthetic, her first single ‘Skirt On Pants’ shows that Kässy is firmly rooted in her time.

Reeperbahn Festival 2024

A girly energy and a modern sound with familiar accents: A newcomer on the international scene.

Kässy

This American singer has broken the record for the most number 1 albums by a female artist. A victory for a woman who has always stood up for her musical rights, in the process getting tech giant Apple to roll back their rights policy. But how did she do it?

Taylor Swift

With his severe expression, dark looks and past of unimaginable tragedy, Nick Cave could be forgiven for chasing his past of gothic fury. But yearning and grace have crept into his art of late alongside startling emotional honesty... and even a sense of humour. 

Could Nick Cave be the ultimate gothic hero?

Nick Cave

British singer Gretel Hänlyn takes the stage for the first time in Paris for Echoes with Jehnny Beth.

Echoes with Jehnny Beth

Gretel Hänlyn

With boundless energy and technical mastery, Beth McCarthy draws inspiration from Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus to bring the female pop rock of the early 2000s up to date - pulling it off it brilliantly. The proof is in She Gets The Flowers, her first single released in 2021 which quickly went viral.

Without ever betraying herself or pandering to the industry, Beth McCarthy imposes her very own style on the international scene.

Beth McCarthy

Like so many others, Peace Okezie spent his teenage years at parties and raves, forging friendships and relationships that inspired him. His declared musical influences include Bloc Party and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as The Streets and Calvin Harris.

Rising star Master Peace's first album was released in 2024 to great fanfare from British critics.

Master Peace

Hailing from Stuttgart, this duo's nonchalant indie pop with electro overtones is enhanced by their lyrics sung in English. For Zimmer90, songwriting should be intuitive - a vision that translates into collecting sound sketches that are then developed in relaxed jam sessions.

The comfort of a delicious black coffee sipped quietly on a Sunday morning: That's the effect of Zimmer90's music.

Zimmer90

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When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

Beyoncé

When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio, Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

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

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

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

Alternative icons Arcade Fire are known for their rousing performances, and this one, captured at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival, is no exception. A journey of pure poetic energy

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Canada's Arcade Fire live up to their storming reputation in Bilbao.

Arcade Fire

Simple Minds perform their cult album New Gold Dream in the unique setting of the Théâtre Antique de Fourvière, along with some of their other timeless hits.

Nuits de Fourvière 2024

The Scottish rock legends take over the ancient theatre of Fourvière.

Simple Minds

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

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

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

Back in the early 1990s Madonna’s provocative sexual persona was seen as a threat to the Catholic Church.

Madonna

The Pixies broke out onto the music scene in the second half of the 1980s and revolutionised rock.

The Pixies broke out onto the music scene in the second half of the 1980s and revolutionised rock

TAPE: Pixies

Twee-pop melodies and acerbic lyrics about the difficult passage to adulthood: It can only be Glasgow's own Belle & Sebastian. A classic indie band who have been blending arty inclinations with spry guitar pop since the 1990s.

Elbjazz Festival 2024

Bittersweet indie pop from Glasgow inviting you back into your memories.

Belle & Sebastian

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

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.

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

Slowdive

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Rock is dead, long live hip-hop? TAPE takes a look through the infamous clash between rapper Jay-Z and Britpop legend Noel Gallagher.

Jay-Z

Charlie Winston first came to public attention back in the 2000s with his hit "Like a Hobo." He's now performing in one of Europe's leading cultural heritage hotspots: the Halle Verrière in Meisenthal, a small village nestled in the Vosges du Nord nature park in northeastern France.

Meisenthal's Halle Verrière

The British singer and guitarist performs live in an 18th-century European glassworks.

Charlie Winston

In keeping with the spirit of the Soirées de Poche (Pocket Concerts) series, glitter-chic artist Juliette Armanet plays a special intimate concert in a private apartment. She plays a set heavy with songs from her last album Brûler le feu, which set the French music world alight.

Soirée de Poche

French chic-pop artist Juliette Armanet plays a special intimate concert in a private flat.

Juliette Armanet

How did counter-culture icon Patti Smith get invited to the most hallowed hall of the French republic?

Patti Smith

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

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

The swaying music of L'Impératrice meets the organic curves of Palais Bulles for Passengers. A session with a sweet retro flavour to celebrate the release of the band's third album: Pulsar.

Passengers: Palais Bulles

L'Impératrice in concert in the retro-futuristic setting of the Palais Bulles.

L’Impératrice

Austrian singer-songwriter performs from her intimate and personal debut EP, Out of the Blue at the Eurosonic festival.

Eurosonic Noorderslag 2023

Florence Arman

Barcelona-native Marine Herlop charms the Eurosonic festival audience with the strange beauty of her third album, Pripyat.

Marina Herlop

Youthful and energetic Irish pop-rock band modernlove take to the Eurosonic festival stage to perform from their EP Oh My Mind.

Modernlove

The Jordan performs from her upcoming debut album, Nowhere Near The Sky, at the Eurosonic festival.

The Jordan

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

bar italia is one of the most exciting contemporary rock trios around. Experience the London phenomenon at the 2024 edition of La Route du Rock.

La Route du Rock 2024

bar italia captivates La Route du Rock with its steamy experimental rock.

bar italia

Céline Dion married her agent. Was it him who made her career or was it the other way around?

Céline Dion

TAPE looks at the relationship between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and on-again-off-again band member John Frusciante, a toxic love affair.