Phoenix

General           : Phoenix – Lollapalooza Brazil 2014.TS
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Lollapalooza  is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups and various visual artists.

Conceived and created in 1991 by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band, Lollapalooza ran annually until 1997, and was revived in 2003. From its inception through 1997 and its revival in 2003, the festival toured North America. In 2004, the festival organizers decided to expand the dates to two days per city, but poor ticket sales forced the 2004 tour to be canceled.In 2005, Farrell and the William Morris Agency partnered up with Austin, Texas–based company Capital Sports Entertainment (now C3 Presents) and retooled it into its current format as a weekend destination festival in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois.

In 2010 it was announced that Lollapalooza would debut outside of the United States, with a branch of the festival staged in Chile’s capital Santiago on April 2–3, 2011 where they partnered up with Santiago-based company Lotus. In 2011, the company Geo Events confirmed the Brazilian version of the event, which was held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo on 7 and 8 April 2012.In November 2014, the first European Lollapalooza was announced, which will be held at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.

The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a two or three-day period. Lollapalooza has featured a diverse range of bands and has helped expose and popularize artists such as Dev, Rollins Band, Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, Imagine Dragons, Babes in Toyland, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Stone Temple Pilots, Depeche Mode, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Pearl Jam, The Cure, Of Monsters and Men, Primus, The Killers, The National, Rage Against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, X Japan, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cage the Elephant, Alice in Chains, Björk, Lorde, MGMT, Tool, The Black Keys, deadmau5, Hole, Body Count, Ice-T, Queens of the Stone Age, The Drums, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Calvin Harris, Thenewno2, Fishbone, Lady Gaga, Lucius, Betty Who, Butthole Surfers, and Scramble Campbell. (more…)

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It was a school night to remember when international superstars Phoenix performed a spectacular show in the gym at LC Anderson High School in Austin, Texas. Following a main-stage set at the Austin City Limits Festival the day before, the French band played for 800 invited guests – including several hundred students – for an upcoming episode of the public television series Live from the Artists Den. They blasted through 16 songs, including such hits as “Lisztomania” and “If I Ever Feel Better” and selections from their most recent album, Bankrupt!, before singer Thomas Mars invited the audience to join them on stage at the home of the Trojans for thrilling, chaotic renditions of “1901″ and “Rome.”

The origins of French rock band Phoenix go back to the childhoods of lead singer Thomas Mars, bassist Deck d’Arcy, and guitarist Christian Mazzalai, who grew up playing music together as schoolmates in the Parisian suburb of Versailles. The group officially took the name “Phoenix” when Mazzalai’s older brother, Laurent Brancowitz, joined in 1997. After years of work and a self-released EP, the band released its debut album, United, in 2000. Its follow-up, 2004′s Alphabetical, and 2006′s It’s Never Been Like That continued to raise Phoenix’s profile, but it wasn’t until the band’s fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, that the band achieved widespread mainstream success. The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and landed on “Best of the Year” lists in Rolling Stone, Time, Pitchfork, and Spin. In 2013, the band’s fifth album, Bankrupt!, was released and debuted at the Number Four spot on the Billboard 200 charts.

L. C. Anderson High School (then known as E. H. Anderson High School) opened in 1907 as Austin’s first school for African-American students. Named after local black educator Laurine Cecil Anderson, the high school was home to one of the most successful football programs in the state. The Anderson Yellow Jackets won four state championships before the school was forced closed in 1971 as part of desegregation. The newly-integrated Anderson High School opened in 1973 at its current location with a new mascot (the Trojans), new school colors (blue and gold), and a brand new campus. Consistently recognized for its strong academics by such publications as Newsweek and The Washington Post, Anderson has become one of the top high schools in the nation.

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