Video: Phoenix - '1901' Finale, Live @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn (6.18.09)

I saw three shows a week in 2009, on average, most of which I never got around to writing up. Here are some of my favorites, or in some cases, favorite live bands. It's a loose list this year. Pete & the Pirates | CMJ 2009 Pete & the Pirates were so good at their first show of the week (10/21 at the Bell House) I ended up seeing them three more times during the course of CMJ. The band are so tight, so tunefull, so [...]

Phoenix came to New York's Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday, June 18th & murdered the crowd. The French boys who found a certain applaudable level of success with their first three album have broken away with Wolfgang Amadeus. It's with good reason. The fourth album by Phoenix is easily one of the best synthpop dance rock albums in the last few years. Few albums provide the perfect blend of dance tunes that Phoenix gives us with tracks like Lisztomania, 1901, Rome, Girlfriend & more or less the rest of the album. While Phoenix received a lot of [...]