{"id":488194,"date":"2019-07-19T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=861363"},"modified":"2019-07-19T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:33:15","slug":"phoenix-announce-book-for-super-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/phoenix-announce-book-for-super-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Announce Book For \u2018Super-Fans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/phoenix-anniversary-book.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>French synth-pop band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phoenix\/\">Phoenix<\/a>&nbsp;announced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/book\/\" id=\"auto-tag_book\" data-tag=\"book\">book<\/a>, titled <em>Phoenix: Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Phoenix!<\/em> Described as \u201ca superfan\u2019s chronicle of the evolution of a band,\u201d it\u2019s due out October 15th.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phoenix: Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Phoenix!<\/em> will draw on Phoenix\u2019s personal archive of photographs, notes, lyrics and more, and will be accompanied by an oral history composed from interviews with the band, conducted by and co-written with <em>The Guardian&nbsp;<\/em>deputy music editor Laura Snapes.<\/p>\n<p>The book coincides with several important anniversaries for the band: the 30th anniversary of when the band members first began playing together as a \u201cgarage band\u201d in school, the 20th anniversary of their debut <em>Untitled<\/em> and the 10th anniversary of their breakthrough <em>Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix\u2019s most recent album was 2017\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/phoenix-talk-finding-joy-amid-turmoil-on-new-album-ti-amo-195367\/\"><em>Ti Amo<\/em><\/a>. In an interview with&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, frontman Thomas Mars said, \u201cMaking music was always a joyous thing that we were happy to do, and it stayed that way. You see things that are evolving and changing around you, and then there\u2019s something dark, but somehow you keep in mind that there is a value and a quality in just keeping your mind. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s disconnected and it\u2019s apolitical; it\u2019s just that it seems joyous and therefore it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s in denial [of what\u2019s happened].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phoenix-anniversary-book-861363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French synth-pop band Phoenix&nbsp;announced a new book, titled Phoenix: Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Phoenix! Described as \u201ca superfan\u2019s chronicle of the evolution of a band,\u201d it\u2019s due out October 15th. Phoenix: Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Phoenix! will draw on Phoenix\u2019s personal archive of photographs, notes, lyrics and more, and will be accompanied by an oral history composed from interviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 23:57:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}