A Change of Pace Pictures

Phoenix Cover Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”

Four albums into Phoenix’s career, we’ve come to expect infectious dance-pop singles like “Lisztomania” and “1901″ from the Grammy-nominated French quartet. So Phoenix’s acoustic cover of Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” recorded live for Germany’s Musikexpress (via P4K), comes as a surprising, refreshing change of pace from the band, as Thomas Mars and Co. deliver a pretty faithful rendition of the famed Blonde on Blonde closer — even though Phoenix’s version is truncated down to a

Published: 2010-01-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Phoenix, Rock News

Loud, slow and mesmerizing, a not-so-new sound is gaining ground

Arts & EntertainmentThe music can come in songs from two minutes to more than an hour long, made by the loudest guitars you've ever heard, with sustained notes that change at a snail's pace.

Published: 2007-05-27 Provider: Seattle Times

K!'s SXSW blog (Part Two)

K! editor Paul Brannigan reports from this year's South By South West festival. Thursday, March 19 Day two of SXSW is set aside for a Kerrang!/Guitar Hero party at The Wave on Sixth Street. Over the course of the afternoon Gallows, Justin Hawkins from Hot Leg and Lips and Rob from Anvil will all pop in to check out the five band bill. That and there's free beer for everyone probably helps pack the venue too... Rolo Tomassi kickstart the day with their disorientating spazz-jazz noise attack. In 100 degrees heat the young Sheffield quintet do an impressive job conjuring up Hell with their shrieks, screeches and squawks, with Eva Spence melting hearts with her unique voice. Attack! Attack! have an infinitely more straightforward approach with their classic power-pop structures and the South Wales quartet have heads nodding appreciately as they hammer through the sun-kisses melodies of Honesty. Next up our old friends The Bronx are in blistering form, performing a set dictated by audience requests. Dropping sweat throughout, Matt Caughtran wears a sixty mile smile as he cheerily abuses audience members and the likes of Knifeman and White Guilt go down like a cold Corona on a summer's day. Awesome. There's a change of pace, but no less love for Frank Turner. The hardcore troubadour performs today with a band he met just 24 hours previously, but you'd never guess that from this slick and assured performance. Like former tourmates The Gaslight Anthem Turner exudes warmth and Everyman charm and his tales of booze, bruises and bereavement are sung back at him by hoarse-throated Texans with fists in the air. Closing the show, Enter Shikari are dealt an unfair hand when the PA cuts out several times during their set, forcing songs to be halted, and their frustration is as obvious as it is understandable. But in the face of adversity the St. Albans quartet dig deep, channeling their anger into a gutsy set heavy on new politically-charged material. Ditching hits like Sorry You'r

Published: 2009-03-21 Provider: Kerrang!