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Paris Olympics playlist: 8 great French music acts you should hear today
Our picks include Serge Gainsbourg, Gojira, Françoise Hardy, Carla Bruni, Booba and MC Solaar.
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Jim Harrington is the pop music critic for the Bay Area News Group. He began writing about the Bay Area music scene in 1992 and became the full-time pop music critic for the organization's Oakland Tribune in 2006. He is a South Bay native and graduate of San Francisco State University.