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Cadet-made videos!
Check out these home-made videos from brave cadets across the galaxy!
Captain Anthony's band performing an original song about electricity in Phenomenauts-fashion:
Kevin's band playing The Year 2000:
And finally, a video about how Earth Is The Best from Steven Colbert, who might not be a cadet yet, but should be:
These are great, keep them coming!
Captain Anthony's band performing an original song about electricity in Phenomenauts-fashion:
Kevin's band playing The Year 2000:
And finally, a video about how Earth Is The Best from Steven Colbert, who might not be a cadet yet, but should be:
These are great, keep them coming!
5.05.2008
Reviews from Cyber-Space
More good reviews are coming in For All Mankind!
Time to break out your Molly Ringwald posters and slap bracelets because apparently the 80's are back with a vengeance courtesy of the third full-length release from The Phenomenauts. Some may have already written these guys off as a gimmick. Others have put them in guilty pleasure category. Either way you feel, it's undeniable that The Phenomenauts are in a world all their own when it comes to crafting early punk anthems retrofitted with a twist of the blips and bloops that made new wave one of the premier genres of the 80's.
[Read the rest at AbsolutePunk.net]
There's something innocent and endearing about this group of five men who seem less like wannabe rock stars and more like ten-year-olds playing with a refrigerator box that becomes their shuttle to space. In "Man Alone," one of the first songs on the new album, the singer (not sure whether it's Commander Angel Nova or Corporal JoeBot 2.0) shouts "we should have a mission / we should have a purpose." The Phenomenauts have found theirs, blast out the rock and roll tunes, put on a great show, make the kids dance, and have fun doing it.
[Read the rest at Treble.com]
Minding the gap between the aggro Cal punk that dominates the Warped Tour and the avant-psych pop that's justly favored in their hometown of San Francisco, this outfit proffers a thoroughly endearing summertide blend. A scattering of bizarro sci-fi effects somehow only adds to the logic.
[Read the rest at CNET]
