Phoenix

Certainly one of the most popular albums of 2009 was Phoenix ' s fourth release, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix . Read More

There's no shortage of breakup albums in the world, but few luxuriate so deeply in the depressive aftermath of a love gone wrong as Sea Change , whose unrelenting bleakness would be unbearable if it weren't so pretty. Read More

"It's part of our French culture, to make artists suffer and then you accept them, and then you help them, you know!" jokes Christian Mazzalai about the amount of time it's taken the French press to welcome Phoenix with open arms. Read More

The Parisian rock band Phoenix mixes '80s rock, '70s disco grooves, modern-day studio polish and endearing French accents to create jagged, fun, danceable pop songs. Read More

For such a shy bunch of fellas, French band Phoenix sure has been getting around. Read More

French alt. rock sensations, Phoenix, have been one of the most talked about bands of 2009. Read More

During the first song of Phoenix's Musicvision session, guitarist Christian Mazzalai says of a certain major 7th in Curtis Mayfield's "Blue Monday People," that it is the chord that changed their lives as a band, that it is "full of sadness yet filled with hope." Read More

Throughout the course of four staggeringly brief but perfectly formed albums Phoenix have proved themselves masters of a studied laissez-faire and baffling nuanced lyrics rendering them thus far impervious to the mainstream. 2. Read More

AllHipHop reports and MTV confirms that pioneering hip-hop DJ Mr. Magic has died of a heart attack. Read More

"We have to come to Texas to see this!" exclaimed Phoenix singer Thomas Mars, proclaiming the surprisingly mammoth crowd the largest audience the French quintet had performed in front of. Read More