If you like your music multi-lingual then boy are you in for a treat or, indeed, un petit plaisir next week when Berlin-based duo Stereo Total hit town on Saturday 16th. I fell in love with the kooky electro-garage rock-à-billy popstars a few years ago when I discovered an album of theirs that sounded like the B52s mixed with Peaches with a couple of Sugarcubes stirred in. Their "homemade" ironic pop combines French chanson with German electronika, with a euro-linguistic twist, so that on one album you get a song that croons "j'aime l'amour à trois" then a few songs later the same track pops up declaring "I love love with the three of us"! You can listen to some of their new songs on their Myspace page and buy tickets for $30+bf at Slowboat (Cuba St) for next week's gig at the San Fran Bathhouse.

AND they're bringing JD Sampson, one-third of feminist nu-york-punk-icons Le Tigre with them, fresh from her MEN DJ/remix project and a visit to NZ for the Big Day Out '08 with Peaches and Herm.


ALLONS-Y!