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Phoenix: official website; myspace; According to the site Discogs there are 37 artists that have released music using the pseudonym Phoenix.

French band (1995-present) who have functioned as backing band for Air. In 92, Laurent Brancowitz worked with Guy Manuel de Homem Cristo and Thomas Bangalter, future members of the band Daft-Punk. Their music has been featured in films such as Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola (who is the leader’s partner). Formed in 1999, Phoenix became an underground hit with the loungy, mellow and unpretentious sound heard on their 2000 debut album United. Their biggest hits, “Too Young” and “If I Ever Feel Better” (major hit in France) propelled the album to enough success to grant the band a contract for a second album, Alphabetical, released in 2004. The four Parisians have since released a new album called It’s Never Been Like That. The album contains ten new songs. Thomas Hedlund from the Perishers played drums during their last recording and tour.

Dirty Projectors: official website; myspace; Started by David Longstreth in a bedroom in 2003, the band now includes Amber Coffman and Brian Mcomber, who joined in 2006, Angel Deradoorian, who joined in
2007, Haley Dekle, who joined in 2009, and Nat Baldwin, who joined in 2005, left for a bit and joined again in 2009.

Their album Bitte Orca was one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed records of 2009. The critics had this to say:

“Easy on the ear yet mightily complex, warmly empathetic and a kaleidoscope of styles.”
8/10, NME

“Many may not have the patience to follow its somersaults. Those who do will be richly rewarded.”
Four Stars, Q Mag

“A dazzling array of songs that span just about any genre you can name, as well as a few you can’t, because Longstreth has only just invented them.”
Four Stars, Sunday Times (UK)

"Concise and inventive and replayable and plain old fun...an album of such a high uniform quality and such indelible range, practically any tune could be your
favorite"
9.2 / 10 Pitchfork

Wavves: official website; myspace; Some bands are so good they deserve their own genre and DOO-WAVE is the term exactly one person (hi!) is using to describe the exhilarating doo-wop surf-punk made by San Diego's Wavves.

Wavves is the work of Nathan Williams, who writes the classic rap blog Ghost Ramp and makes tapes of awesome songs he says are inspired by "the sun. And feeling like shit." His explosive new single Beach Demon assaults the monotony of endless suburban sunshine with zigzagging harmonies and a blitzkrieg of fuzzed-out noise.

“Beach Demon is about getting drunk on the beach and not having or feeling any real purpose in your life," explains Nathan. "That's why the chorus is 'going nowhere, I'm going nowhere', this overwhelming feeling of unimportance in the real scheme of things, ya know?" And Weed Demon, the languid, freewheeling b-side, what's that about? "Weed Demon is about weed." Ah. Of course.

-NME.com

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