Posts tagged "Phoenix"
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

There was a time that Vampire Weekend perched, perilously, on the precipice of being one of the great one-album wonders of the ’00s. Like Cannibal Ox or At the Drive-In or Bloc Party before them, the Ivy League pop-rockers seemed poised to turn heads with one masterstroke of a record, and then retreat into either obscurity, oddity, or simple irrelevance. That album was 2008’s Vampire Weekend — the one with “Oxford Comma” and “A-Punk” and basically all the Vampire Weekend […]

Phoenix, Bankrupt! : Album Review

Phoenix, Bankrupt! : Album Review

“List-o-mania, my testes, see ’em grow… like-a-rhi, like-a-rhino!” These are, the internet tells me, definitely not the lyrics to Phoenix’s breakthrough hit, “Lisztomania”. I never actually thought that the Parisian indie-rockers were narrating a peppy, Kafka-esque tale about growing rhinoceros balls, mind you — but the absurdist image never failed to make me chuckle, and anyway, why futz with something that was probably way cooler in my brain? (Actual lyrics: “Think less, but see it grow; like a riot, like […]

Popblerd's New Release Report 4/23/13

Popblerd’s New Release Report 4/23/13

Look who’s waiting for you at the record store counter with those dreamy eyes…

The 2013 Lollapalooza Lineup Is Announced!

The 2013 Lollapalooza Lineup Is Announced!

C’mon. Who doesn’t want to see The Cure?

Chart Stalker 8/26/10: There’s Life!!!

Eminem #1, yada yada yada blah blah blah. However, the remainder of the Top 10 on this week’s Billboard album chart gets an almost complete makeover,  by virtue of six debuts and a reentry. The only albums in this week’s Top 10 that were also in last week’s Top 10 besides Eminem are Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” (#7) and Justin Bieber’s “My World 2.0” (#8). This week’s Top 10 debuts come from R&B singer Kem (#2), singer-songwriters Ray LaMontagne (#3) […]