Phoenix

Phoenix is a French[1] alternative rock band founded by Thomas Mars, Deck D'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in Versailles.

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Inevitable End Of Year List #1, Part 1
An outsider would think that music bloggers the world over conspire at the end of each calendar year to produce a myriad of list-based posts merely to confirm the suspicion that music bloggers are anal, facile and childish. These outsiders would be absolutely right. A minutely-tinkered list tells two stories: one of care, fastidious attention and deep love - and one of too many lonely nights...
New Tunes: The Soft Pack
For whatever reason the act of changing a band’s name has always annoyed me. You start to get to know a band as one thing and then all of a sudden they’re something totally different. It sucks and it really fucks up your iTunes cataloging! In the case of the band formerly known as The Muslims I think I can make an exception to the rule. Let’s face reality and realize that...
The Soft Pack - Fences (Phoenix Cover)
  There’s something questionable about a deadpan San Diego punk band covering one of the most pants-wettingly melodic groups in existence, but considering we ride for both Phoenix and The Soft Pack (née The Muslims, lest you forget) we indulged this one out of curiosity–and it’s pretty good! Sounds like Lou Reed if he’d just been released from prison (or ever...
Overwhelmed by the Swine Flu
Don’t even feel like anything I blog about even matters. When u hear about a story so serious, it’s like all of this ‘alt music and culture’ stuff doesn’t even matter, cuz in the end, we’re all humans. In case yall haven’t heard, there is a strand of the flu going around called SWINE FLU. Always thought I would get to die of natural causes....
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Deastro
pic by Jeremy Deputat Twenty-two-year-old Randolph Chabot first began writing songs when he was a pre-teen, in an attempt to construct the sounds of his dreams. Superheroes, lost souls, star-crossed lovers and aliens all inhabit his fantasies, so naturally his stagename creates a kind of alter ego for his performances. Famously flamboyant on stage, Deastro’s colourful, ambient,...
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Out of all the new band’s I’ve heard this year, I think Cymbals Eat Guitars have the best shot of making it big.  Charles Bissell from the Wrens, who knows a thing or two about this kind of thing, agrees.  He recently said of the New York band that they “will end up indie famous within the year” and he liked the band enough to produce their first album, Why There...
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Laneway Festival 2010: Review
Laneway Festival February 1, 2010 Britomart Square, Auckland Last week our Melbourne friends told us that the Laneway Festival is one of the least respected festivals in Australia, we were surprised, but it meant we entered the first Auckland Laneway festival with a hint of scepticism. We’d been told stories of forty minute-queues to see bands, poor facilities and an even poorer...
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