Phoenix

...who opted for Tipitina's free earplugs had their senses rocked. The show made me realize that Phoenix is about one album away from hitting it really big, like fellow countrymen Daft Punk big. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is one of the best...

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...the audience much, and its early scheduling - unfortunately undeserved - didn't draw nearly the crowd it could have. French band Phoenix followed Dr. Dog's performance, lighting up the AMD stage. Unfamiliar with their music, I thoroughly...

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...critical and popular smash Funeral, the Canadian rock ensemble laid their claim as indie music lords and ladies at Austin City Limits 2006. Phoenix, on the same stage, seems to have recreated that energy. They also looked similarly...

In this article: Phoenix, Austin, Texas, Beyonce, Arcade Fire, and Monterrey, Mexico

Concert review: Phoenix at the Aragon Phoenix has been around since the mid-'90s, schoolboy friends from a sleepy Paris suburb who never fit in with their wide-screen vision of pop. As a fledgling quartet, they performed songs by...

In this article: Aragon, Phoenix, Paris, New Wave, and Long Distance Call

...the lyrics are sung in English and the band's taut songs sound very much like the Strokes. Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars performs with the band Wednesday night at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Phoenix performs Wednesday night at...

In this article: Phoenix, Daft Punk, Chicago, Laurent Brancowitz, Aragon, and Sofia Coppola

...to get thousands of very non-Continental fans to shimmy to meticulous, synth-besotted tunes with lyrics about Franz Liszt. But Phoenix is so casually precise in its pop that its pleasures have a way of sneaking up on just about anyone.

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Phoenix's Thomas Mars, front, Laurent Brancowitz, center, Deck D'Arcy, back left, and Christian Mazzalai have a top 30 song in 1901 and will be performing again in the USA in September. By Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY A career...

In this article: USA Today, Laurent Brancowitz, Sofia Coppola, and Saturday Night Live

...DJ Kicks series (the Norwegian Oye, like Mars, sings in English in an endearing foreign accent). Now, Phoenix's latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, is turning critics' heads ahead of its release on 25 May. Dazed & Confused call Phoenix...

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If you ever wanted to know what Aztec Camera would sound like if you put that band in the studio with Chic, pick up any Phoenix album. The four scruffy Frenchmen have spent the past decade making a convincing case for revisiting the most...

In this article: Sofia Coppola, Wolfgang Amadeus, Too Young, Hedi Slimane, Lost in Translation, Air, and Daft Punk

...partner of Sofia Coppola and designer Hedi Slimane is a friend and fan), the term "guilty pleasure" still works best when describing Phoenix's music. This is music that will appeal to anyone looking for a 21st-century Supertramp or Hall &...

In this article: Wolfgang Amadeus, Hedi Slimane, Sofia Coppola, Hall & Oates, and Supertramp