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  Take-Away Phoenix

  12.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Absolutely brilliant…Phoenix teamed up with La Blogotheque for a few impromptu songs on the streets of Paris as part of their Take-Away Shows series. The band kept things simple using only acoustic guitars and a synthesizer, and Mars's only microphone was the one on the video camera. There's a lot to be said for watching [...]

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  Lisztomania

  10.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I'm only two weeks late on this one!

  As even a cursory search on this blog would show, I've been particularly high on Phoenix since their release of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix earlier this year. This was my first chance to see them live since I discovered them (let's just ignore their first two or three albums [...]

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  Phoenix On The Interface

  07.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Lisztomania (Live)
  Anyone keeping score at home knows how much I love this band, their latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, a fixture in my car's CD player for weeks after its release. Late last week word came down from Phoenix's Facebook page that a live set and interview had been posted to Spinner.com, and [...]

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  Nineteen Hundred and One

  06.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Following up on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix just kicked off their U.S. promotional tour for the new album last night with a nearly album-perfect rendition of "1901" on Late Show with David Letterman. Phoenix packs up and heads back to Europe at the end of June, so catch them while you can!

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  Rock Me, Amadeus

  06.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

  This year's "Summer Album", a distinction firmly levied two years ago upon Panda Bear's peerless Person Pitch, seems firmly in the grasp of newly released Phoenix LP Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. From the bouncy pop of "Lisztomania" and sheer exaltation of album highlight "1901" to the almost mathy vibe of "Armistice", Wolfgang Amadeus [...]

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STEREOROBO is a personal smörgåsbord of gaming, music, and illustration blended into a pithy mush by Stephen Hack, a Chicago based arcade game developer and erstwhile polymath.

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