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 Phantogram's music sounds like it's made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop — each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn't live and work in a major urban center, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY (population 26,186) home. Despite the cultural influence of local Skidmore College (where fellow beat-experimenters Ratatat formed) and a relatively small scene of adventurous musicians and listeners, Saratoga isn’t exactly teeming with fans of J. Dilla, My Bloody Valentine or Serge Gainsbourg.
But Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the duo that make up Phantogram and who grew up in the even smaller nearby municipality of Greenwich, have flourished in Saratoga. In fact, the town itself isn't rural enough for their taste — they drive almost every day another 45 minutes into upstate farmland to a barn they call Harmony Lodge to write and record. Serving as their homemade studio/practice space/think-tank/bat-cave, the barn is equipped with various samplers, tapes, records, synths, drums, and both percussive and stringed instruments. It's there that Phantogram allows their natural surroundings and metropolitan influences to meld together creating beautiful, beat-driven dreamlike pop songs.
 Phantogram has been busy this spring: a national tour with The Antlers, a West Coast tour with The XX, and Canadian dates with Metric. Now they're kicking off the summer season with more dates in Canada, London and Paris, plus a co-headline show with Caribou at Governor's Island in New York on July 16th. The NYC show is free — more information is available at thebeachconcerts.com.
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EW.com is premiering the Alan Wilkis remix of Phantogram's mouthful of diamonds just in time for their sold out Los Angeles show with The Antlers. Alan Wilkis, a Brooklyn-based artist, producer, and remixer, has previously remixed tracks for Yeasayer, RJD2, Phoenix, The Temper Trap, The Very Best, White Hinterland, and many more. You can take a listen to this joyous new-wave inflected delight here.
Phantogram is also excited to announce that they'll be supporting The XX on upcoming dates this June after a run of headlining dates crossing the continent throughout May.
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After a successful string of shows at Austin's SXSW festival, Phantogram are hitting the road with the Antlers. They'll be touring with the Brooklyn trio through May 5 before heading out with the National on their U.S. run. Josh and Sarah will be checking in along the way with their own photos and anecdotes from the road, beginning with this first entry from Barthel, which reads like pages from her personal diary.
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The first official video from Phantogram, for mouthful of diamonds, premiered this week, and can be viewed on a variety of websites (for example, here).
Following a massively successful SXSW (where they received "Best Of" nods from USA Today, Spin, and NPR) Phantogram will continue to tour in support of eyelid movies throughout the year. To kick off the tour season, they have a run of dates lined up with The Antlers, headlining shows at Hoboken, NJ's Maxwell's, and NYC's Bowery Ballroom, and Sasquatch Festival over Memorial Day weekend.
2010 promises to be a banner year for Phantogram. Stay tuned, there’s surely more to come!
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The Saratoga Springs, NY duo of Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, known collectively as Phantogram, are preparing to tour multiple times in 2010. In celebration of the release of their debut LP, eyelid movies (out February 9th, but available for pre-orders now), the band will be hitting the east coast and some Midwest dates. You can listen to the record in its entirety on the NPR website here.
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Phantogram's beautiful beat-driven dreamlike album, eyelid movies, is now available for pre-ordering in the Barsuk shop. The band will be touring throughout February with Junk Culture (and a few dates with Minus The Bear).
The vinyl version of eyelid movies will be released by Ghostly International and will also be available here as soon as they're ready.
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5 Sep |
CHICAGO, IL [ Union Park ]
North Coast Music Festival, all-ages |
9 Sep |
PORTLAND, OR [ Wonder Ballroom ]
MusicFestNW |
9 Sep |
PORTLAND, OR [ Doug Fir ]
12:30pm, sponsored by KEXP, all-ages |
22 Sep |
BOSTON, MA [ Paradise ]
18+ |
23 Sep |
ROCHESTER, NY [ Bug Jar ] |
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Phantogram are: Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter |
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