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CMJ Flashback: Phoenix, Sherlock's Daughter, Suuns And More

Posted 10-29-10 by
Tags: Dirty Projectors, My Morning Jacket, Phoenix, PS I Love You, Random Recipe, Rooftop Vigilantes, Sherlock's Daughter, Suuns, Ty Segall

The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali has been thinking about her CMJ Music Marathon experience over the past week and reports back on the highs (Suuns), lows (missing Massive Attack), earaches (Dirty Projectors) and ecstasy (Sherlock's Daughter) of this year's festival madness.

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Phoenix, Surfer Blood, Four Tet, UNKLE, Ghostface Killah, POBPAH Set For CMJ Music Marathon

Posted 9-22-10 by
Tags: Everything, Four Tet, Ghostface Killah, Neon Indian, Phoenix, Surfer Blood, The Drums, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

An international flock of bands is slated to come to New York from October 19-23 for the CMJ Music Marathon and the officially announced bands and artists include Phoenix, Surfer Blood, The Drums, School of Seven Bells, Ghosface Killah, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, UNKLE, Four Tet, Greg Dulli and scores more. Get ready for bedlam.

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Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup: Soundgarden, Arcade Fire, Green Day, The Strokes, Lady Gaga And Phoenix

Posted 4-6-10 by
Tags: 2ManyDJs, AFI, Arcade Fire, Blitzen Trapper, Chromeo, Cut Copy, Cypress Hill, Deer Tick, Devo, Digitalism, Dirty Projectors, Empire of the Sun, Erykah Badu, F**k Buttons, Felix Da Housecat, Freelance Whales, Frightened Rabbit, Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Health, Hockey, Hot Chip, Jimmy Cliff, Kaskade, Lady Gaga, Matt & Kim, Mavis Staples, Metric, MGMT, Minus he Bear, Mumford & Sons, MUTEMATH, Phoenix, Raphael Saadiq, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Spoon, Stars, The Antlers, The Big Pink, The Black Keys, The Cribs, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers, The Strokes, The Temper Trap, The xx, Tiga, Wild Beasts, Wolfmother, X Japan, Yeasayer

The folks behind the Lollapalooza festival have revealed the event's 2010 lineup with the reunited Soundgarden, Broadway's Green Day, Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, Phoenix and The Strokes as headliners. Other bands and artists include MGMT, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, Devo, The National and the recently arrested Erykah Badu. The festival takes place August 6-8 in Chicago

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Phoenix Gives Bob Dylan A Spin - Free Download

Posted 1-27-10 by
Tags: Bob Dylan, Phoenix

Throughout this week's winter fundraising drive for The Alternate Side and WFUV, we've been mashing up eclectic genres and exploring different decades. Phoenix's gentle, acoustic take on Bob Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," recorded for a German magazine (which you can download here for free), seems a perfect bridge of past and present.

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TAS in Session: Top 10 Studio A Videos of 2009

Posted 1-1-10 by
Tags: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Gomez, Jack Peñate, Mew, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Phoenix, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The Walkmen

We made it through 2009! On the first day of 2010, let's take one last, sentimental look at some of the great guests who visited The Alternate Side in Studio A last year; all rank in our Top Ten most viewed videos on our site. After the jump, check out Phoenix, Gomez, Of Montreal, Jack Peñate and many more.

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The Alternate Side Staff Picks Our Favorite Albums of 2009 ... And The Decade

Posted 12-17-09 by
Tags: Bon Iver, Delphic, Grizzly Bear, Metric, Phoenix

It's not easy to choose your favorite albums or singles of 2009, let alone the entire decade. But we, the staff of The Alternate Side, did our best and though our minds might change tomorrow, this is how it stands for today. A quick survey of everyone's lists has one constant on five out of six lists: Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Plus, it's our birthday - The Alternate Side is a year old today - so we're feeling especially merry and celebratory.

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TAS in Session: Phoenix

Posted 5-14-09 by
Tags: Phoenix

Thomas Mars and Christian Mazzalai from the French band Phoenix stopped by The Alternate Side the other day to talk about their new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix which comes out at the end of the month. Like their other albums, this one is filled with masterful little gems that are great for parties and driving fast.

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