It's not an outright club cut, and the guitars aren't absent to a Zinner-degree, but still: lots of synths to this new Phoenix. "1901" is the lead leak from the Parisian pop-minded rockers' ...

The industry luminary reflects on the Versailles-bred indie pop act's first notch atop Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and its continued promotional legacy for his latest crop of indie exports… By ...

Last night, Phoenix and Vampire Weekend crossed paths yet again, this time in the form of a sit-in from VW frontman Ezra Koenig during the French indie quartet’s headline set at Primavera Sound.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Okay, this song has been available on the French band Phoenix’s web site for a couple ...

In a year when critics lavished praise on an album that featured the honest-to-god lyrics “I got a high school crush on a California girl, oh yeah,” perhaps it’s a mercy that after dozens of virtual ...

"Identical" hits No. 1 on Adult Alternative Songs. By Kevin Rutherford Phoenix rules a Billboard airplay chart for the first time in a decade, as “Identical” crowns the Adult Alternative Songs list ...

Hipster Runoff thinks this was acid induced, but having known a lot of "our friends" who have done acid and been fairly docile, we're gonna go with either PCP or good ol' fashioned grain alcohol.

Phoenix aren’t exactly celebrating, however, as Brancowitz jokes, “We didn’t win anything yet. Now we want to know how you win this fight to the death.” The band will face off against albums by Brian ...

As masters of sunshine inflected, deceptively accessible summer anthems Parisian four-piece Phoenix could be accused of having a formulaic approach to songwriting. But when you’re the purveyors of ...

This morning you may have caught Phoenix unplugged on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix's "Lisztomania," etc. A few hours later, we have the Bogstandard-directed video for the album's oft remixed lead track ...

Sounds Like: The Strokes without the NYC cops attitude? Just wonderful crispy pop. Check out the video for “Lisztomania” here. D.C. Bound: June 21, Rock and Roll Hotel, but it’s already sold out. Next ...