Phoenix

This band is fucking awesome. Phoenix is a French alternative rock band that started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in the suburb of Versailles. The guitarist Laurent Brancowitz used to be part of a short lived Beach Boys-inspired guitar group called Darlin'. The band consisted of his friends Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and himself. After releasing their songs on Duophonic, a review in the British music magazine Melody Maker called the music "a bunch of daft punk." Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided to create Daft Punk in 1993 as Brancowitz joined forces with Phoenix.

I only heard about them last week, and I'm not proud to say it. They released their latest album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in May of 2009 and toured a whole bunch throughout the summer. They even played in Brooklyn too at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and I missed it! oh well I guess I'll just have to wait til they come to the US again....hopefully sometime soon! Definitely check them out cuz their def worth listening to.





-TONY

Elbow-Toe

Artist Feature:

This week the big artist is definitely Elbow-Toe. He put up a really nice piece in the abandoned lot at 3rd and 3rd [see above] in Brooklyn, and another nice one in Red Hook. He's also got an open studio coming up next weekend (October 16-17) if anyone's interested in seeing more of his new work.

-TONY