MIKA
I chanced upon Michael Holbrook Penniman, commonly known as Mika, this weekend totally by accident. At the baking and wine party I had with the Prozdor girls, we all took turns using Liore's snazzy iPhone to play DJ. Someone put on this song, and I fell in love instantly. Mika's got a Freddie Mercury-esque quality to his voice, a fact he totally plays up in "Grace Kelly." That's a brilliant song, too, but my favorite of his is "Big Girl (You are Beautiful)" - it's got a wonderful video, too!
PHOENIX
Everyone knows Phoenix by now. "1901" is totally ubiquitous - and that status is hella well-deserved. These Versailles-born lads can craft one hell of a pop song. Like MGMT or Justice if they really cared about lyrics, there's a magical, synthy quality to all this stuff. (And the lead singer's got the good sense to be dating Sofia Coppola - maybe he can talk to her and we can get more Virgin Suicides, less Marie Antoinette?). So, yeah -- "1901" is great, but "Lisztomania" is even better.
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