Ptit Gibus FM

Ptit Gibus FM sounds like a secret. It's a small French station with an oversized personality. The programming drifts from chanson to garage rock to forgotten Europop, often within the same hour. Nobody curates like this. That's the appeal. When you listen to Ptit Gibus FM online, you get the sense that a real human, not an algorithm, is picking tracks from a dusty record shop. The audio quality might not be pristine. So what? The charm is in the chaos. I caught it during a Tuesday afternoon set and heard a bizarre segue from Françoise Hardy to a punk track. It shouldn't work. It does. Ptit Gi…