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M83 is the music project of the French artist Anthony Gonzalez. He and former member Nicolas Fromageau founded the group in 2001 in Antibes, France. M83's style owes a lot to the genre, in that there is much emphasis on tonality, extensive use of reverb effects and often softly-spoken lyrics at times submerged in instrumentation. M83 was named after the spiral galaxy "Messier 83".

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Music Festival Preview: Coachella 2012
As part of our Music Festival Preview, we've made you a mix of some of our must-see bands at Coachella 2012, including Saturday night's rock god headliners Radiohead, astral French shoegaze luminaries M83 and the inimitable and unmissable Neutral Milk ...

Album Review: School of Seven Bells – Ghostory
Last year, M83, one of the finest progenitors of the movement, opened the door for countless listeners with its latest opus, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, an album whose tracks have been surfacing just about everywhere by now. Now, some four months later, ...

BIG SIR (LA / Juan Alderete from The Mars Volta + Lisa Papineau) announce tour
Big Sir, the Los Angeles-based project of vocalist Lisa Papineau (ME & LP, M83, Air) and The Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete, will massively tour Europe and the UK in April, for the very first time in band's history, to promote their third album, ...

M83 @ The Metro Theatre, Sydney (09/02/2012)
Easily the most amusing story to come out of 2012's Laneway Festival tour surrounded support band Teenage Mothers, and their public bitch about being kicked off the M83 tour. Their offending mistake, apparently, was indulging in a few nangs on stage.