Brooklyn indie rock/funk band Ava Luna are releasing a full covers album of Serge Gainsbourg‘s 1971 classic Histoire de Melody Nelson for the December edition of Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious ...

When it comes to hobbies and obsessions, people have varying tastes. A lot of the people reading this will count music among their main interests, some people pick sports, others like travelling or ...

Paris, 1968. On the set of a nondescript film called Slogan, 22 year old English actress Jane Birkin finds herself playing the love interest of a washed-up advertising executive undergoing a midlife ...

Last week, Seattle-based Light in the Attic Records became the first label to release Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson in the United States. Knowing this, the question is: Why didn’t ...

It’s rare that an act of sexual aggression gets celebrated in American culture. But when the Hollywood Bowl’s tribute concert to the late French singer-actor-director-composer-provocateur Serge ...

“I loved the cozy atmosphere of London studios,” Jean-Claude Vannier, the vaunted arranger of Histoire de Melody Nelson, told Le Monde in 2008. “The carpets were spread out in the studio, so it looked ...

“How many people here speak French?” asked Sean Lennon of the 10,000 fans attending the Hollywood Bowl Sunday night to celebrate the music of French singer-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg. The occasion ...

Even with no knowledge of the French language, it’d still be fairly obvious that Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 album was consumed with lust. The pelvic-thrust bass lines, his ear-licking vocals, and the way ...

It’s deceptively easy to see the career of French musician Serge Gainsbourg as one continuous punchline. With his distinctive vocal style—a muttered sing-speech—parodied almost into oblivion since his ...

Nearly 40 years after its creation, Histoire de Melody Nelson “still has the power to make jaws and panties drop,” said Jon Dolan in Blender.com. The late French pop singer Serge Gainsbourg set the ...

Panning Serge Gainsbourg’s most celebrated concept record for being perverse is a bit like damning Bob Dylan for being coy. Sure, between lover and muse Jane Birkin’s faux (but pregnant!) nymphet pose ...