French indie pop band Phoenix has released seven studio albums, two extended plays, one live album, twenty-three singles, and nineteen music videos. Their first three albums, United (2000), Alphabetical (2003), and It's Never Been Like That (2006), were released through Source, Virgin Records, and Astralwerks. The band received major commercial success following the release of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009), which was released through V2 Records, Glassnote, Loyauté, and Cooperative Music. It was certified gold in Australia, Canada, and the United States. "1901", the album's lead single and "Lisztomania" the second single from the album were certified platinum in the US by the RIAA. After signing with Atlantic Records, the band released Bankrupt! (2013), which peaked at number three in the band's home country of France, making it their highest-peaking album there. The band's sixth album, Ti Amo (2017), had a positive commercial performance. The band's seventh album Alpha Zulu was released on 4 November 2022.
Phoenix is the long-awaited second studio album by British singer Rita Ora. The album was released on November 23, 2018 and includes an Avicii track, as well as guest appearances from Bebe Rexha, Cardi B, Charli XCX, Julia Michaels, Liam Payne, and Rudimental.
SIMON: The indie band from France has been together for three decades. They've won a Grammy and have now released their seventh album, "Alpha Zulu." It showcases their spellbinding and ageless synthpop. Thomas Mars is the lead singer of Phoenix and joins us now from New York. Thanks so much for being with us.
MARS: I think the way we make music, it's a little bit like therapy for us. It's the four of us in a room. We don't really write anything before we meet. It's mostly stream of consciousness. It's the traumas and the good moment - the good memories we have, sort of the DNA of our music. But we did grow up together. And we did - we know each other since we are very young, you know. So we don't really have to talk when we make an album.
MARS: I mean, not to get into too much detail, but my bandmates lost parents. And we had - we lost Philippe Zdar, who was a collaborator on our producer on many records and who was a figure of the French music scene since its beginning. Anything that came out of France that was good, he had something to do with. We started to record the first song to this album three days after his funeral, so he stayed with us all the time while making this record. And now that we are touring this album, singing the songs, like, we think of him even more.
MARS: That's what's interesting to us. I think it's the same with music. Every album has to be something new. As soon as we find a recipe, we're not interested to do the same thing. You know, in the beginning, people were upset that we would change shape so much. I think that's a good thing.
Foo Fighters will be releasing a new album in advance of their first metro Phoenix concert since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins, whose final U.S. show was a February 2022 headlining set at Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park.
LB: For a year we were stuck. It became almost crazy working on one or two songs for ages. We were kind of lost in the difficulty of a second album. For a long time we were in a dark cave and at some point it was becoming dangerous. The turning point was when we finished a song that we had recorded in a big studio in Paris, and we realized it was really bad. We threw it away and suddenly things became so much easier. There was this long process of creation and destruction.
We did it in an old abandoned radio station. The place was very beautiful and very eerie. It was like ghosts walking in there. Also, it was a moment of change in our lives. Thomas was very much in love, I remember. So there was this energy, I think you can hear it in the record. We did it in the smallest amount of time. When we went to Berlin we had zero written and zero music. A few months later, I think it was, the album was finished.
Phoenix is the highly-anticipated, expansive new album in the musical evolution of alto saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin, due out January 27, 2023 via Whirlwind Recordings. The album was produced by the multi-Grammy-award winning Terri Lyne Carrington and features a star-studded line up of specially curated guests Dianne Reeves, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Patrice Rushen, Sonia Sanchez, Angela Davis and Wayne Shorter. The band is composed of trumpeter Josh Evans, Victor Gould on keys, Orange Rodriguez on synths, drummer Enoch (EJ) Strickland, percussionist Nêgah Santos and bassist Ivan Taylor. Trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr, Rhodes organist Anastassiya Petrova and bassist Jahmal Nichols all join for one track each.
Phoenix is the highly-anticipated, expansive new album in the musical evolution of alto saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin. The album was produced by the multi-Grammy-award winning Terri Lyne Carrington and features a star-studded line up of specially curated guests Dianne Reeves, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Patrice Rushen, Sonia Sanchez, Angela Davis and Wayne Shorter.
Two Steps From Hell was formed back in 2006 when Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix joined forces to write original music for movie trailers. 12 years later, TSFH has been featured in hundreds of movie ads, including some of the biggest blockbusters of recent time, as well as thousands of TV ads and programs. TSFH released their first public album, Invincible, in 2009, establishing epic music as a new and unique musical genre. There are now 14 public albums and millions of fans worldwide. Photography by Dita Vollmond, Claudia Phoenix, Dean Karr and Frank Embacher.
Aside from Jackson Browne's Pretender album which I loved and of course a few Joni Mitchell ones, I'd by-passed the various Taylors (James, Livingston and I think there was another), Nicolette Larson, most of Linda Ronstadt . . .
This album sounds a bit like that: the tattered relationship in The Last to Know and Face the Fire are the grains to give substance . . . but most of the rest, professionally executed thought it might be by a fine band, is just white bread pop.
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In an interview with Stereogum, the band's frontman, Thomas Mars, said Bangalter helped to fill the void in the studio that had been left by the passing of French artist Philippe Zdar of Cassius, who died following an accidental fall in Paris in 2019 and worked on several of the band's past albums.
THE GEMS added about "Phoenix": "'Phoenix' marks the beginning, the rise of THE GEMS. This album takes you on a journey through one of our toughest times. Through this creative process we were able to really dig deep and let go of a lot of emotional baggage, and find true happiness in music again. The new found freedom our band has been given us shines through on this album. We couldn't be prouder of what we've accomplished, and the true rock n roll sisterhood and community we've built through these few months of our existence. 'Phoenix' is the perfect album for anyone going through a tough time, having the rug pulled out under you and somehow finding the strength to rebuild. You'll get the full range of emotions, masterfully produced by our dear friend Johan Randén, who we also wrote some of the songs with.
THE GEMS' live performances include material from THUNDERMOTHER's last two albums, 2020's "Heat Wave" and 2022's "Black And Gold", both of which featured songwriting contributions from Guernica and Emlee.
The Phoenix is a remix album by Grey Daze composed of Chester Bennington's vocals from the 90's over newly recorded instrumentals. The first single, "Saturation (Strange Love)", was released on April 15, 2022.
Tentatively titled New Sun Tomorrow,[1] the project was started in February 2017[2] when Chester and Sean picked about four songs to recut and sent new guitarist Cristin Davis into the studio to work on them.[3] The album was announced in June by bassist Mace Bayers as a remaster of ...No Sun Today they would be working on with producer Sylvia Massy.[4]
"Saturation" was renamed to "Saturation (Strange Love)" and "Here, Nearby" was renamed to "Be Your Man", while "Anything, Anything" was titled as a "New Version." On June 18, 2021, the DC Dark Nights Death Metal soundtrack was released digitally by DC and Loma Vista Recordings. As a part of the soundtrack, Grey Daze released a new version of their Dramarama cover "Anything Anything" created with Tyler Bates. On Instagram, the band called this "Retro Version" and commented on YouTube that the version that would be on their next album ("The Phoenix") would be a different version of the song.
Grey Daze's guest lineup for the album includes Dave Navarro, guitarist of Jane's Addiction, on "Holding You", Chester's twin daughters Lily and Lila Bennington on "Hole", amd Richard Patrick, lead singer of Filter, on "Believe Me."
This ushers in another major thematic backbone to the album: highlighting pioneering women who blazed trails in their respective fields. Many of these women might not have gotten the recognition they deserved in the past. Here, they are spotlighted and honored, while simultaneously serving in supporting roles throughout the album.
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