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The 30 Best Coachella Performances

Coachella buzz is ablaze since the lineup came out a few days ago. As you make your 2012 plans, we thought it'd be fun to remember the best performances of the past.  read more

Your Guide to New Music: "ColorHits"

How do you go about finding your new music? Is it by word of mouth? Do you stumble upon it? Do you walk into a record store and with closed eyes pull an album from a pile, hoping the mass that has landed in your hand will turn to gold? What about by title? Weird phrases? What about an album color search? That’s what we said, “color search.” So say you type in Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Out pops Franz Ferdinand, The xx, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, all due to album color. Pretty awesome, yeah? That’s the idea behind ColorHits....  read more

Stream Phoenix's New Documentary

A documentary on Phoenix and their 2009-2010 From Mess A To The Masses tour is now available for stream below. The documentary, which takes its name from the tour, was directed by Antoine Wagner, who also directed Phoenix's Lisztomania music video from back in 2009.  read more

Watch the Trailer for Phoenix's Tour Documentary

Film director Antoine Wagner first directed French indie-pop sensations Phoenix's video "Lisztomania," after which he decided to follow the quartet on tour in support of its 2009 breakthrough album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Culled from more than a year's worth of touring footage comes Wagner's 52-minute documentary, From a Mess to the Masses.  read more

10 Awesome Live Collaborations

It's always fun when bands team up with their famous friends and share a new twist on our favorite songs, so here are 10 amazing collaborations that we've caught over the past year that have us looking towards this summer's surprise guests.   read more

20 Great Songs Stripped Down

Musicians have captured something special when they can remove most of the instrumentation and effects from a song, and it still holds up—or becomes even better. Here are 20 of our favorite stripped-down versions of songs (not stripper versions—that would be weird.)...  read more

12 Fantastic Fan-Made Music Videos

A few days ago, we showcased some fans’ devotion to their favorite musicians through tattoos. Today, we exemplify that fanatic devotion through a different medium: the music video....  read more

20 Sunlight Songs

Due to the impending and much-desired delivery of spring, we decided to compose a list dedicated to sunlight. Because we like sunlight. It makes us happy....  read more

14 Bands In Strange Locations

Most people have seen one of their favorite artists play on stage; it’s a wonderful experience, but such shows have a tendency to blend together after a while. But we’ve compiled a list that showcases some terrific artists in foreign territory—not stages, not recording studios, but unique locales which make them even more memorable....  read more

The PS22 Chorus

For the uninitiated, the chorus at New York’s Public School #22 have their own site and YouTube channel and have been producing covers of popular indie songs for quite a while now, including “Lisztomania” by Phoenix, “Kids” by MGMT and most recently “Round and Around” by Ariel Pink, among others. But they’re not relegated to purely indie, having covered Lady Gaga and and Coldplay in the past, as well....  read more