Music - Dec. 8, 2008
Help me with my ballot
Another December means assembling another annual ballot for the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop Poll, something I've been doing for a couple decades now. This is the first year I didn't keep a running list all year long. So, I feel like I'm missing something big.
Tags: Pazz & Jop, Village Voice, Radiohead, Yelle, Josh Rouse, Vampire Weekend, Perturbazione, Subsonica, MGMT, Paul Weller, Colin Meloy, Kooks

Music - Oct. 23, 2008
Dance and shout with Yelle
Yelle's energy bursts from an almond-eyed petite girl with a cute bob. She was dressed in a Mondrian-inspired baggy sundress, which was, surprisingly, mostly black and white and only a few chunks of color (some of which glowed in the dark) and her requisite pair of tights ... sparkly.
Tags: yelle, turner hall ballroom, je veux te voir, funeral party

Music - Oct. 17, 2008
Hello, my name is Yelle!
Here in the OnMilwaukee.com editorial office we love good-time, retro drum-machine-driven dance pop, so, it's no surprise that we now adore France's Yelle and her debut disc, "Pop-Up," out now. As she prepares to land in Milwaukee to check out the town and play a gig at Turner Hall Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m., we talked to Yelle.
Tags: Yelle, Turner Hall, Pop-Up, Serge Gainsbourg, Kylie Minogue, MIA