"Psychic Chasms," Alan Palomo's first Neon Indian album, was named the 14th best release of 2009 by Pitchfork. Second Avenue stage outside Crescent Ballroom) Neon Indian The Clown Prince of Hip-Hop, whose ’89 breakthrough, “Just a Friend,” made a VH1 countdown of 100 greatest hip-hop songs of all time, has achieved the most unusual sort of late-career resurgence since joining the case of a kids’ show called “Yo Gabba Gabba!” He also famously performed his greatest hit on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” with Jeff Goldblum and the Roots in 2010. Under the Radar said: "It is the combination of vibrant, light-hearted instrumentation and intelligent lyrics that make 'Chinese Fountain' one of the best guitar albums of the year." But I'd add Nielsen's vocals to that combination. These California rockers have been known to self-identify as beach goth, but I hear more beach than goth in last year's "Chinese Fountain," where the cleanest guitar sound since Vampire Weekend's first album is topped by old-school indie popcraft and Brooks Nielsen's aching vocal presence, a sleepy-headed rasp that should appeal to fans of Damon Albarn and the Strokes alike. single, “Not in Love.” Alice Glass left the group in October, 2014, but Ethan Kath has carried on, recruiting Edith Frances, with whom he’s been recording a fourth Crystal Castles album, sharing two promising new songs – the ominous “Deicide” and the dreamy yet pulsating “Frail” – in advance. The second of three self-titled Crystal Castles albums arrived in 2010 with the Cure’s Robert Smith singing lead on what remains their highest-charting U.K.
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Staking their claim on the more experimental side of electronic pop, they took the blogosphere by storm with 2008’s “Crystal Castles,” which NME later declared one of the 40 greatest albums of the decade. Once exchanged, your wristband is your ticket, lost wristbands will not be replaced.Īnd now, without further ado, our recommended artists: Crystal Castles Saturday, March 12, at Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. You’ll need to trade your ticket for a wristband, which will be available from 12 p.m. Tickets are $25 for a wristband good for general admission, on sale now at ticketfly. Magician to XIXA.Ĭharlie Levy of Stateside Presents launched Viva PHX in 2014, modeled on the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, which features artists performing in various venues across the city.
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But so are a handful of tiny-font artists, from Mrs. The names who get the biggest font size on the Viva PHX poster - Crystal Castles, the Growlers, Rocket from the Crypt and Neon Indian - are all included here. In the meantime, we've narrowed the playing field to 30 recommended artists, which is not intended as a slight to any act whose name is not included here (with two or three exceptions - you know you are). If you know someone whose list of must-see Viva PHX artists is the same as yours? You may be co-dependent. The official hashtag is #FirstWorldMusicGeekProblems, There are 70 bands playing 17 stages, all in downtown Phoenix on a single night - this Saturday, March 12. But that's also what makes Viva PHX great. The trouble with a festival as action-packed as Viva PHX is there's no way you could ever hope to take in every act worth seeing.