

Once exchanged, your wristband is your ticket, lost wristbands will not be replaced.Īnd now, without further ado, our recommended artists: Crystal Castles Saturday, March 12, at Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E.

You’ll need to trade your ticket for a wristband, which will be available from 12 p.m. Tickets are $25 for a wristband good for general admission, on sale now at ticketfly. Magician to XIXA.Ĭharlie Levy of Stateside Presents launched Viva PHX in 2014, modeled on the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, which features artists performing in various venues across the city. But so are a handful of tiny-font artists, from Mrs.

The names who get the biggest font size on the Viva PHX poster - Crystal Castles, the Growlers, Rocket from the Crypt and Neon Indian - are all included here. In the meantime, we've narrowed the playing field to 30 recommended artists, which is not intended as a slight to any act whose name is not included here (with two or three exceptions - you know you are).

If you know someone whose list of must-see Viva PHX artists is the same as yours? You may be co-dependent. The official hashtag is #FirstWorldMusicGeekProblems, There are 70 bands playing 17 stages, all in downtown Phoenix on a single night - this Saturday, March 12. But that's also what makes Viva PHX great. For 2012's more streamlined III, the duo decamped to Warsaw, where they recorded direct to tape, eschewing any computer-assisted recording.The trouble with a festival as action-packed as Viva PHX is there's no way you could ever hope to take in every act worth seeing. The duo returned in 2010 with another self-titled album when it leaked onto the Internet in late April of that year, the band released it digitally soon after, with a physical release following that May. Tours with the Presets and Metric in 2007 set the stage for the release of Crystal Castles' self-titled debut album, which Last Gang released early in 2008. Kath and Glass worked on their own songs and also honed their remixing skills, tweaking songs for Klaxons as well as GoodBooks, Uffie, Health, and Bloc Party. "Alice Practice" was released as a limited-edition 7" in summer 2006 on Merok Records, also home to Klaxons its 500-copy run sold out in three days. One of the songs the pair recorded, "Alice Practice," was something of an accident: it was intended to be a demo of Glass testing out a microphone, but its presence on MySpace piqued record labels' interest. When Kath collaborated with singer Alice Glass on some songs in spring 2005, Crystal Castles' lineup was complete.
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Kath got the moniker from the name of She-Ra's dwelling in the He-Man and Masters of the Universe cartoon series it's also the name of a 1983 Atari video game, which is oddly appropriate, considering that one component of the band's distinctive sound comes from a keyboard modified with an Atari 5200 sound chip. Fusing low-res electronic noise and pop hooks so effortlessly that it can seem accidental, Crystal Castles began as producer/multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath's solo project in late 2003.
