subject: Phoenix Tickets - Phoenix Headlines Lollapalooza [print this page] Day two of this year's Lollapalooza Music Festival may have featured veteran punk band Green Day and the always-shocking pop star Lady Gaga, but fellow headliner Phoenix didn't disappoint. The French band took the stage at the North end of Chicago's Grant Park on Saturday, Aug. 7, delivering a more subtle set than Green Day that proved just as impressive.
Comparing the headliners, Rolling Stone writes, "If Green Day's stage felt like a Broadway theater, Phoenix's was an exclusive club. Their design was spare, comprised mostly of a row of fluorescent bulbs that glowed alternately blue, green and purple, and their frontman not as prone to high comedy."
Comedy aside, Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars and the remaining three members of Phoenix performed keyboard-driven, pop-rock confections from their 2009 Grammy-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The quartet left the stage only to return for a three-song encore comprised of a cover of fellow French act Air's "Playground Love," their own older dance track "If I Ever Feel Better" and their signature song "1901" (you know it from the Cadillac television commercial if nowhere else).
After the final tune of "1901" sounded, Mars jumped down into the audience and weaved his way through the first few rows of fans, offering handshakes and hugs all around. "Thank you so much, thank you so, so much. I don't know what else to say!" Mars exclaimed before disappearing backstage.
Lollapalooza capped a busy festival season for Phoenix, as the French quartet performed at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif. in April and the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn. in June. If you couldn't cough up enough cash to pay for tickets to attend an entire music festival, there are still plenty of opportunities to see Phoenix on concert. Phoenix tickets are available to see the band in North American cities like Minneapolis, Minn.; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Los Angeles, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Calif.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Salt Lake City, Utah; New York, N.Y. and more through late October.
Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart officially put Phoenix on the map, the Grammy-winning album (for Best Alternative Music Album) is actually Phoenix's fourth record. Mars, bassist Deck D'Arcy and guitarists Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz began making their brand of dance music in the Paris suburb of Versailles and released their debut album, United, in 2000. 2004's Alphabetical and 2006's It's Never Been Like That followed before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spawned a pair of hits in "1901" and "Listzomania."
The members of Phoenix are still riding the wave of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and have yet to begin recording its follow-up, although the band did record the soundtrack for Sophia Coppola's upcoming film Somewhere-Coppola is Mars' girlfriend and the couple share a Paris residence with their child.
Speaking about the soundtrack for the film, which stars Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, Brancowitz previously told Rolling Stone, "It's very minimal-really it's not even music, more like sounds. But the movie is brilliant and the soundtrack was fun to do." Somewhere has no official release date but fans can expect to see the film-and hear Phoenix's soundtrack-before the end of 2010.
by: Pat Smith
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