Blur are not the only Britpoppers with a new album in the works. Saint Etienne will release their eighth studio album, Words & Music, on May 21 in the UK. (They’re still working out US distribution.) ...

As Sarah Cracknell dreamily sings on the statement-of-intent opening track "Over The Border", as a teenager she knew she should have been studying for her mocks but instead "just wanted to listen to ...

“The first time I heard techno in a rave, it was like a real revolution in my mind.” So says Étienne de Crécy, French touch electro-house producer, DJ, and conceptual artist. Likewise, de Crécy’s ...

When French dance music wizard Etienne de Crécy takes to the center of his "cube" in the Sahara tent for the final set of the 2009 Coachella Music Festival on Sunday night, he'll be mounting the… By ...

Saint Etienne’s eighth album, Words and Music by Saint Etienne, starts with singer Sarah Cracknell—transported back to a time before adult autonomy—admiring kids with the daring to question authority.

Saint Etienne are to release their first studio album in seven years in May. Saint Etienne are to release their first studio album in seven years in May. 'Words And Music By Saint Etienne' is the band ...

Earlier this year when Madonna, 53, released her middling, trend-chasing dance pop record “MDNA,” one of the major criticisms was her seeming disinterest in making music for her own generation, or in ...

Album Review: Words and Music by Saint Etienne shows the pure popsters have not lost their magic after more than two decades. Saint Etienne: Age has not wearied them Mention the name Saint Etienne and ...

U.K. indie-pop trio Saint Etienne has gained a cult-like, if increasingly large, following in the United States over the past two decades — enough to lure the band back Stateside for the first time… ...

Carnival in the Caribbean, a riotous spectacle of drums, rhythm, dance, color and phantasmagorical characters, inspires jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. “I have always thought of Carnival ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. For more than two decades, Saint Etienne has embodied the art of understated pop. Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley's synthesizers and drum machines have been ...