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Daft Punk Join Phoenix Live At Madison Square Garden
Thu Oct 21 2010 by Becky Bain
It's a great time to be a Daft Punk fan. The electronic duo have popped up as producers, appeared on highly anticipated movie soundtracks and ambitious Adidas commercials, and last night at Madison Square Garden, the French DJs — who haven't performed live since their 2007 Alive tour — helped their buddies in Phoenix close out their show by performing "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and "Around The World". And they picked a pretty neat palindrome to do it as well - 10/20/2010. Watch a bunch of New Yorkers go insane as Daft Punk makes their surprise cameo after the jump — and check out their day-glo Tron: Legacy poster, too.
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We Can Pretty Much Guess The Lollapalooza Headliners Without Buying A Vowel
Thu Apr 1 2010 by Becky Bain
Okay, so we have the Lollapalooza lineup pretty much figured out, or at least the top six acts booked at the fest. The Chicago music festival's website has been playing a Wheel of Fortune-style game, revealing their lineup one letter at a time. Bonnaroo teased fans in a similar way on their MySpace page back in February, revealing one artist every five minutes. This game of hangman would be a much more painstaking process if we couldn't easily guess which highly anticipated acts are filling out the top spots (not to mention the lineup has been leaked for weeks). Check out our pretty accurate guesses after the jump: More »
‘Time’ Picks Its Top 10 Albums Of 2009
Fri Dec 11 2009 by Robbie Daw
It’s been quite the high profile week for The-Dream. Not only did a wedding photo of the hit-making songwriter-producer and Christina Milian just surface, his Love vs. Money was also singled out in Time’s picks for the top albums of the year. Hopefully this calms him down after his recent Grammy snub.
Dirty Projectors, a favorite of Solange Knowles, ranked pretty high on the list, as did Lilith Fair 2010 performer Miranda Lambert.
Lady Gaga just managed to scrape in at #10 with The Fame Monster, and the publication notes “there’s still a little too much filler for global domination to be a real goal. But the hits… are towering and undeniable.”
Hop below the jump to see the 10 albums that Time magazine felt were worth their salt in 2009. More »
Paramore Keep Us Hanging On The Telephone
Tue Sep 8 2009 by Maura
Following this morning’s post featuring Paramore covering Kings Of Leon, here are the Tennessee pop-punkers covering Phoenix’s 2006 track “Long Distance Call” in London. Apparently the band had just learned this track for an upcoming appearance in France; I like its nervous energy, although I think as far as Paramore covers that I’ve found today go, I think I prefer the Kings Of Leon track. (Hey, there are nine words that I never thought I’d say in order!) The original version of the song after the jump. More »
Phoenix Tours A Museum And Films It
Thu Apr 16 2009 by Lucas Jensen
For Phoenix’s video for the pretty catchy single “Lizstomania” the band… visited a Franz Lizst museum and filmed it. Then, they performed and filmed it. Um, and then I guess someone edited the footage together. And that’s it. Huh. Excitement, she wrote! They do have this nifty personalized-zeppelin thing they carry around with them, and, like I said, the song is catchy, but reading some of the comments on Vimeo before actually watching the clip had me believing my mind was about to melt. When a tastemaker like El Coronel Blueberry is “completely blown away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, I take notice. I hate to disagree with Col. Blueberry, but I was only “mildly interested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Clip after the jump.
Phoenix Found The Sound Guy Who Can Make Studio 8H Sound OK
Mon Apr 6 2009 by Dan Gibson
The standard format for any blog post recapping the musical guests from Saturday Night Live is to say how bad the mixing was and that the sketches were awful, and certainly Seth Rogen’s rough time playing any character that isn’t largely just like Seth Rogen and one of my least favorite tracks from The Lonely Island’s Incredibad serving as the bed for the digital short didn’t help the comedy situation. But the sound on the two and a half Phoenix appearances weren’t too bad. Add Bill Hader’s Gizmo impression and a half-funny Muppet-themed sketch and that’s almost something, right? Phoenix’s full-length performances (and, as a bonus, the Muppet bus clip) are after the cut.
