From a Mess to the Masses, a 52 minute documentary about Phoenix’s rise to fame via Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (best) originally aired on Arte TV last week in France and Germany, and is now available for full decent quality streaming thanks to a random Vimeo user. The trailer is great. (24B)

Phoenix are kind of playing MSG in 2 weeks, because sometimes the world makes sense. To celebrate, the French indie band are giving away “Love Like a Sunset Pt 3,” a sort of reworking of the fabulous Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’s Pt 1/2. Visit their label, Glassnote’s site to retweet the info and unlock the free [...]

A couple of days ago, some friends and I were debating over the award for most useless celebrity couple (I think Katy Perry and Russell Brand won by default (Speidi broke up?). We didn’t get around to discussing the most useful, but I think Phoenix’s Thomas Mars and Sofia Coppola deserve a nod. The French [...]

[Grammy Award-winning] Phoenix, in conjunction with the Observer, are offering up a free download on their official site of 8 new tracks live from the Sydney, Australia stop on their recent tour. The download is free, and completely free. Tracklisting below. I have to watch Lost now.
1. Lisztomania
2. Lasso
3. Fences
4. Girlfriend
5. Armistice
6. Love like a [...]

My favorite hipster children’s choir, PS 22 Chorus, added a cover of Phoenix’ “Lisztomania” to their impressive playlist of pop/indie favs over the weekend. In case you forgot, the chorus appeared on Passion Pit’s debut album, Manners, and is currenty the best thing on the internets.

As I skimmed through my iTunes and posts from the year, I realized very quickly that putting together a 40 track playlist to represent the best songs of 2009 was going to be impossible. And, according to Jay-Z, impossible takes a week. I don’t have that kind of time! So here’s My Poproks 49 Best [...]

Hey, 2009. I’d like to thank you for wrapping up what has been the best decade for music, and I’ll argue this til the day I’m convinced that the next decade is the best. What I’m trying to say is, it keeps getting better. And, technically, doesn’t the decade end after 2010? Uber confusing. But [...]

La Blogtheque’s Le Concerts a Emporter posted up the latest installment of their “Take Away Shows” series. Vincent Moon shot awesome footage of Phoenix playing acoustic sets in tourist areas of Paris, including Trocadero Square, a site-seeing double-decker tour bus, and under a bridge at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Above is a performance [...]

I moved to the beach and I learned that love is like a sunset. However, Phoenix had already taught me that.
While there have been too many Phoenix remixes to keep track of in 2k9, Animal Collective’s new one of the instrumental Amadeus track, “Love Like a Sunset,” has been the first in a while to [...]

Everyone’s favorite French band that sounds like they are from Brooklyn (Phoenix) bring acoustic versions of “Lisztomania” and “1901″ to the AOL/Spinner Interface series. Yes, by the way, they were great. Also did “One Time Too Many” off of 2006’s It’s Never Been Like That. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is still on the Top 10 of my [...]