by Dave Harrison

French electro-pop music, why must you tease us so?

It seems that Justice — who may be best known to many on this side of the pond for their song "D.A.N.C.E.," which beat out Kanye West for an MTV Europe award last year and thus caused one of his high-profile tantrums — have taken yet another note from their forebears Daft Punk and are planning to take a break from the spotlight and the studio for an unspecified amount of time.

However, all is not lost for Justice fans, as Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay, who make up the duo, promise some musical surprises in their upcoming tour documentary, "A Cross the Universe," which premiered at the Nike Sportswear Gallery in Hollywood on Halloween night.

"[The film] is a documentary and a live recording. The live recording is the show that we used to play when we toured in March, and it's totally different from the album," de Rosnay said. "All of the songs always have, like, one element of what's on the album, but the rest is completely different."

However, Justice fans will have to wait patiently for a new album. Read more...

If you're just catching on to the existence of a new wave of French pop — made up of acts like Daft Punk, Justice, M83 and the Teenagers — you may have missed our earlier stories on these American-culture-loving musicians. Our resident Francophile John Norris talked to the filthy-mouthed Teenagers (while they noshed on hot dogs) on the set of "Gossip Girl" back in May. And in June, he talked to M83's Anthony Gonzalez about the influence John Hughes' '80s teen classics had on his heavily synthesized sound.

After the jump, find out why these hip Europeans are avoiding the path of Serg Gainsbourg and singing in our decidedly less-romantic tongue.
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· Justin Timberlake may step into the role of fictional rebel-on-the-run William Rast in an upcoming ad campaign for the clothing company of the same name, which he co-owns with pal Trace Ayala. Photos of Timberlake alongside model Erin Wasson, who plays Birdie in the Bonnie-and-Clyde-style campaign, can be seen on the William Rast site.

· Chances are, you'll never make beats as cool as French electronica duo Justice, but if you have the cash, you can at least wear the rocking clothes they designed for the international Surface to Air collective. Heads up, though: The leather jacket will run you almost $1,300.

·The upcoming deluxe editions of U2's first three albums — Boy, October and War — are streaming for free on imeem.com, a week before their July 22 release date.

· Coheed and Cambria will perform the entire Amory Wars saga live during a string of dates titled Neverender. The group will perform the tracks from an entire album of the four-part sci-fi epic each night during four-night stands at New York's Terminal 5 (October 22-25) and Los Angeles' Avalon (November 5-8). Read more...

· Justice, Band of Horses, TV on the Radio, and Vampire Weekend lead the Monolith fest lineup.

· The search is over! Roger Waters’ pig has landed…at a very upscale location.

· Scarlett Johansson made a music video for one of her Tom Waits covers, and in it Salman Rushdie nuzzles her neck. No, really, you just read that.

· You can still get tickets to the Rainforest Foundation Fund’s benefit show at Carnegie Hall. Brian Wilson, Feist, Sting, and loads of others are on this year’s bill.

· Hey, let’s have a festival! With music! In the summertime! (And Vampire Weekend, Girl Talk, and The Hold Steady.)

· Even Simon Cowell thinks this year’s “Idol” crop is like a scoop of vanilla in a white styrofoam cone.

· Better than a summer festival? Charts about summer festivals. Justice is in the lead.

· John Mayer…has…a tattoo sleeve. This makes him hardcore while he’s speed-dialing Jessica Simpson as he poses for the Gap.

· Finally, a heavy metal concept double-album about sixteenth-century futurecaster Nostradamus.