On 11/16/2009 9:37 PM, Stewart Mason wrote:
>
> Well, to be fair, there are direct connections to Air and Daft Punk:
> they're all out of the same hometown scene, one of the Phoenix guys was
> in an early lineup of Daft Punk and an early lineup of Phoenix also
> served as Air's live band circa MOON SAFARI.

Fascinating. Hometown scenes rule, fun + performance venues to hone
ones craft.

> I get what you're saying about the Scandinavian influence, but the main
> thing I hear in Phoenix is the Blur wing of the mid-'90s Britpop bands.

And who might that be? Admitted non-Blur listener, for no other reason
than I skipped the brit-pop scene, as with grunge before it.

  - Michael