Phoenix "Tonight" feat. Ezra Koenig

GRAMMY-winning French band Phoenix perform a song from their upcoming album, 'Alpha Zulu,' with guest vocals from Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. Look for Phoenix on tour right now in support of the album which drops on November 4th! #Colbert #AlphaZulu #Phoenix
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[@fastboy177]

Phoenix are still killing it! Their sound has evolved a bit into a bit more electronic sound, but still iconic Phoenix: danceable, tight rhythms, and catchy as all hell. This is one of my favorite songs I've heard in a while!

[@lalotime]

They've always used synths heavily. I think it fits them

[@joshuavincent7884]

"After midnight" is really good from this album too

[@jsequine927]

I have the most sentimental attachment to Phoenix as a band, discovering them at a friend's student apartment in Paris and seeing them play live at Bastille Day that same week. Wolfgang Phoenix will always be one of my all time favorite albums, brings back so many warm feelings and fond memories as do all their albums.

[@CcSnipess]

@@jsequine927 Liztomania and 1901 are my favorite jams

[@Gksk2k2]

@@lalotimehoneymoon isn’t that synth though

[@HeyStevie100]

Phoenix and Vampire Weekend, 2 of my favorite groups come together here

[@tristankerr3655]

Yet the views and listens are dying off because everyone likes absolute tosh music

[@arcticdouchee]

Their last album Ti Amo is a straight pop masterpiece, Goodbye Soleil is a perfect song to me

[@thchruan]

agreed. In decades to come, people will study their last 3 albums as perfect examples of the pop music craft

[@joseurmeneta9636]

Lot of people shit on that album but I think it’s amazing

[@thaisfraccarioliveira2422]

A true pop perfection álbum ❤️

[@Lam007]

Goodbye soleil was my fave on the album too!

[@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo]

Tuttifruti is different class. But there's too many bangers off Ti Amo: Tutti, Goodbye, J-Boy, Ti Amo, Lovelife

[@zelandmusic]

I love the delay effect on his voice.

[@vondock]

i was thinking about this too!

[@davidmckesey7119]

Very subtle

[@jenduke1543]

Van Nuys, California 51-year-old woman in a nursing home watching this performance takes me back to a lady in class 30 years ago at Columbia college with film trying to represent a car scenery On film; my mind is blown at this stage craft

[@cozmo525]

Thomas and Ezra together! What a power couple. I would love to see more collaborations!

[@ronaldjohndalmacio8117]

what's cool about Phoenix is that they're an indie rock band informed and conceptualized their work w/ Classical music w/c is mostly heritage of their French sensibilities.

[@jessahmilvar5667]

Phoenix never ceases to amaze! So underrated. Their songs are always great , the music and lyrics and how they place everything together. Can't wait for the release of the whole album and the sketches of the whole album like the ones they usually do since Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Bankrupt! and Ti Amo

[@nickolonious]

Ti Amo might be my favorite song by them. They were so great live when I saw them touring that album. Hoping they announce a winter date in Arizona.

[@soontiago]

Ezra's vocals really shining from that Tokyo cab

[@davidmckesey7119]

It's the acoustics

[@Eazy_B_]

Went to see Phoenix over the summer, they are one of those bands that sound even better live!

[@PeachyKeenTeen]

I just saw them in Boston two nights ago!! They’re such amazing performers I can’t stress it enough

[@nuelle_droelf]

I was lucky enough to see them in some really irrelevant, anonymous provincial town just days after they won their Grammy for Best Alternative Album. A few months from that, they suddenly headlined the biggest European festivals there are ... and rightly so, of course.

[@baileyjosephine3111]

saw them in nyc a week ago and god damn they’re amazing LIVE

[@davidmckesey7119]

His voice actually got better

[@maybeillridechangemylife509]

I cannot agree enough - I was lucky enough to catch their tour opener (in St Paul) and it was beyond transcendent

[@phinsup402]

Saw them last at the KZbin in Inglewood. They sound amazing in the records but live they are incredible, amazing, 1000 times better. If you are a Phoenix fan is almost criminal not to go see them live. Your welcome!

[@tmccullough1251]

Not gonna lie I was expecting Ezra to jump onto stage during his verse

[@cyberiagenesis]

The lads still got it!!!

[@francis802us]

one of France greatest export.

[@nuelle_droelf]

Phoenix and Stephen Colbert - that's two of my favourite things coming together right there.

[@Salamander407]

Wow!!! Sounds great Phoenix still doing it. I love Ezra, a natural combination. Like peanut butter and jelly LOL

[@maryastudios6027]

Holy mother of God PHOENIX! Concert in NYC was surreal! We appreciate your music!!!!!

[@victormonjaras2134]

Oh I can hear the vampire Weekend vibes in this performance.

[@jasonamaral7568]

Oh wow. I didn't even put that together! It does have that vibe.

[@Dreamoc88]

It sounds like Phoenix

[@davidmckesey7119]

Phoenix with vampire guitar riff

[@jahninapamintuan1849]

Man, Phoenix is seriously too awesome

[@davidmckesey7119]

Let's go! Such a Ezra bass riff. Great job guys

[@baileyhallfilms]

they are my favourite indie electro band super sweet will definitely be looking into their new album later this year!

[@WiloPolis03]

Not to be that guy, but indietronica or indie pop would be the correct term

[@BrandonCroker]

I love this band.

[@bco0t6]

Their Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix record was a classic and mixed by the late Phillipe Zdar, glad they’re back.

[@thchruan]

Agreed and check out their two albums after Wolfgang (if you haven’t) they’re also superb

[@wotzatfa]

I am missing Zdar, still.

[@bco0t6]

@@wotzatfa you and me both

[@AngieGB24]

Can't wait for the new record 🥳🥳🥳

[@aishwaryakali4722]

am I the only one who is disappointed that Ezra was not on stage with them?

[@megandd1797]

First time I've ever heard of them! Excellent sound! So glad I watched Stephen and discovered Phoenix!

[@Tgallag9255]

Have fun digging into a deep catalog of great music!

[@transalp1853]

Lucky boy

[@evedotcom]

😭 loved them since Wolfgang. Still so good ❤️❤️

[@TiagoNomad]

I enjoyed that quite a lot. Gonna listen to it again.

[@JohnMushitu]

Phoenix never disappoints, do they?

[@fdrstan]

First heard Phoenix in 2000 when United came out on astralwerks. They’ve seriously only gotten better and better.

[@vitriolhachedeueysseokatre4138]

Looking forward to seeing them on stage with Erza. 🔥🔥🔥

[@thelongjourney2031]

The French Beatles, gracing us once again

[@iisamber]

saw them live in LA, literally best of concert of my life

[@hiroshi6414]

We Love Phoenix!! ❤

[@augustepiccard1985]

They are the best

[@brentholcomb7842]

100% awesome. Can't wait to see them on this tour!

[@vashstarwind36]

yaaaay We Love Phoenix! 🎶🎶🎶👍

[@softpillow9596]

Killer bass playing! 🥷

[@Phospherone]

The album is a masterpiece. Perfect change up from Ti Amo

[@Laurenpclarke]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo Goooooooooooooooooooooooood!

[@maryastudios6027]

Come back to NYC!!! Better yet, we can see you in the Philippines too!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Shrooms + Phoenix in NYC was the best!!!!!! 😂🎉

[@wotzatfa]

ils sont simplement fan-tas-ti-que ! Bravo les gars !

[@sierrahunterlewis7677]

LOVE THIS

[@adriengimenez6430]

Love this song!!!

[@PJ-Sparkles]

❤️Ezra

[@jeffreywweaver]

My worlds are colliding!! 💚

[@coolcat2956]

young me would’ve been so happy. now i’m older, working, busy with life… never knew this collaboration happened or was happening. getting older definitely comes with abandoning what you once loved. i’m back, i’m trying!

[@coolintruddle]

That was a nice song.

[@dotjon1989]

Fabulous Band!

[@federica5805]

amazing

[@DiOomSs28]

Happy to see Dave Grohl kicking those drums as the good old days

[@markwoldin162]

This is superb.

[@DovishUnknown333]

Still killing it!!

[@srv1959]

Soooo good

[@square2481632]

Thomas seemed to hardly hold the urge to stage diving.😂

[@MT-mt8bd]

Best drummer around.

[@laurentruong]

soooooo good-

[@Nesessary301]

Love these guys

[@majorocks]

Can't wait to see them in MX 🙌🏻❤️

[@dotjon1989]

My Favorite band since …..

[@Anismound]

I can’t believe I’m a month late on a new phoenix song!!!! And with Ezra!!!!

[@badabing3462]

Bouncing about always

[@victorsegovia8990]

🔥🔥🔥

[@VegitableLasagna]

I didn't know Phoenix was still around. I still remember them from those Lizstomania 1901 days.

[@BribriziaLaBri]

their Ti amo Album from 4 (I guess) years ago was a great one too!

[@musicman5375]

Their last album Ti Amo is better than the album those songs came out in

[@nones100]

@@musicman5375 no way you're saying Ti amo is Better than Wolfgang Amadeus lol Armistice , Girlfriend, Lasso, Rome, Fences Love like a Sunset 1&2 Wolfgang is Phoenix at its peak

[@ScottLewisMusic]

@@nones100 For me, I'd rank their last 3 albums as such: 1. Bankrupt! 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 3. Ti Amo But I love all 3 and consider those 3 the standouts of their awesome discography.

[@thchruan]

@@nones100 I’d say their last 3 albums all go together in sequence beautifully (agree Wolfgang is a seminal banger)

[@CarlooosDaaaniel]

❤❤❤

[@condimentking414]

One of the best songs of the year

[@jimsykes6843]

They remind me of a time when bands were good, male musicians had shaggy hair rather than slick their hair back with too much gel, women wore skinny jeans with side parts instead of baggy pants with center parts, TikTok was not invented, and fascism seemed dead. Let's bring that back.

[@OfLegionReal]

So true major pop music is becoming so boring and the same to the point copyrighting might happen so much. I changed my style in April to Indie and found Phoenix and loved it. I knew them last year cause of Jason Schwartzman. Thomas Mars recently guest started in What We do in the Shadows season 4 ep 9 with his wife Sofia

[@juliokilljoy4350]

That hit at 3:34

[@kazutoshi6316]

So cool

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

🔥 🎶 🔥

[@user-js6rn7vo9n]

🇯🇵から応援します！

[@MeeeMeli]

my baes still killing itttt❤️❤️❤️

[@filipeanderson]

Sweet song

[@KuehneZoneify]

Why is Ezra Koenig in Midnight Diner 😂

[@babygurita]

I believe, It’s not their 4th album .. it’s their 7th.. (United, Alphabetical, It’s Never Been Like That, Wolfgang.., Bankrupt, Ti Amo and Alpha Zulu)

[@jjojo8365]

🥵❤ yesss

[@sabrinarene6909]

INDIE COLLAB OF THE DECADE!!

[@JulesJulioMartinez]

Aucun commentaire? Damn guys !

[@theheartofablackbird2109]

What an inspired cameo Lol

[@mattok3085]

Always great to see these two together

[@Jumper123_]

Saw this guy in chess so I decided to check it out

[@LOVER_LINK]

id be freaking out if this was 2009 lmao

[@Kauan_mineiro19]

FIFA 23 ❤❤❤

[@jesusuriasgaxiola2739]

cool In Fifa 23 💙🧡

[@BrickTamlandOfficial]

it looks like one of their band members had to join via zoom

[@masterculturedunkerque7918]

😅😂😂😂😂😂

[@WiloPolis03]

Not a band member, but still funny lol

[@Jonte70]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@barca1397]

I want to see them. They will not come to Japan. I will go to France and the UK in summer.I wonder if I go to a music fes to see them in Europe.

[@1-gz7xy]

Maybe!

[@underflo43tky]

割増

[@cyn2612]

So Ezra wasn't at Colbert's, 😑, was looking forward to him performing live. 🙄

[@Dreamoc88]

More guitar please

[@temple13]

Hang on, is that Crispin Glover singing with Phoenix?

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

This band is using my name. Let me think about that.... .... ..... ..... I approve, but only because the song is good. You can let the band know. I'm sure they'll be relieved some rando on the internet like me is cool with them. 🤪😂

[@renzorojas1995]

🤲🏻🫠

[@sherievaughn6475]

Please consider Pranich Pruk and Nunew Chawarin aka ZeeNunew for musical guests! It would be nice to see non-American, LGBTQ musicians on your show!

[@SinnetSongs]

It's a shame Ezra didn't do this live. Seems pre-recorded to me.

[@dynjarren8355]

Phoenix are one of the strangest bands ever! They are from France and sing no songs in French. That makes no sense! And they are the only French band to have any success in the West outside of France. I’d like to hear them sing one song or even album in French. 😊🎃

[@eleanorclaire]

Did Ezra get stuck in traffic??

[@richardphillips6392]

what % of this is live?

[@Brandon-fg8im]

You just get whacked by otw haaland and this plays after the game

[@davidofergals6947]

Auto tune.

[@guestbong]

these guys dont really mesh imo

[@karmarte4184]

It looks like there not playing:(