Features
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Singles of 2009
PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.
Reviews
Wednesday, September 8 2010
Phoenix: iTunes Festival: London 2010
This truncated live EP hits the highlights of last year’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
Friday, August 13 2010
Phoenix: 30 July 2010 - London
After almost a decade spent toiling away in relative obscurity, Phoenix have now well and truly asserted themselves as one of France’s greatest musical exports, a group capable of executing a performance of unarguable quality at the drop of a hat.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
And the award for Comeback of the Year goes to ...
Saturday, August 5 2006
Phoenix
The French Are Coming! The French Are Coming! -- Part. 1: A war of the radios and a 'damn you' for Doug.
Thursday, May 25 2006
Phoenix: Its Never Been Like That
The lack of imperfections makes these supposed lightning bolts of inspiration sound awfully, well, calculated.
Blogs
Wednesday, October 21 2009
Musicvision Phoenix dir. Guillaume Delaperriere (video)
Phoenix may be approaching a saturation point, what with Cadillac commercials and appearances on every late night talk show known to man, but if you…
Tuesday, October 20 2009
Phoenix - "1901" (Live at the Wiltern) (video)
Last Wednesday, the ubiquitous Phoenix continued to make the rounds by appearing on Last Call with Carson Daly. The band pulled out the fan favorite…
Tuesday, October 13 2009
Phoenix Performs on Craig Ferguson (video)
Phoenix, continuing to make the late night rounds, performed "Girlfriend" off their current record, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson…
Tuesday, September 29 2009
Phoenix: 25 Sept. 2009 - Central Park Summerstage, New York
Words and Pictures by Zach Schwartz
Friday, September 25 2009
Phoenix - "Lisztomania" (Live on Jimmy Fallon) (video)
Phoenix is still getting great mileage out of "Lisztomania", which they played on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.
News
Thursday, June 25 2009
Phoenix took in its cultural surroundings to craft a breakout album
This year's answer to Vampire Weekend and Franz Ferdinand — a buzzing indie-rock band with a catchy, danceable record — the French synth-pop quartet Phoenix…
