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(1994 – present)

Phantom Planet is a frequently evolving four-piece alternative music band based out of Southern California that achieved fame for its track

California, which has gone on to become the theme song for the popular Fox TV series, The O.C… Phantom Planet also performed a cover of Jackson Browne’s Somebody’s Baby for Not Another Teen Movie.

Big Brat was also introduced in the video game soundtrack, Driv3r (Driver 3). Their first record is a surf-rock collection of tunes reminiscent of The Beach Boys. Their second is classic rock harkening to U2 and Blur. Their third and most recent album is an amalgam of sounds, described by the band members as “a fight between” bands such as Fugazi, The Who, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, and The Clash.

Phantom Planet are: Alex Greenwald on vocals, Sam Farrar on bass, Darren Robinson and Jacques Brauther (not currently in the group) on guitar and Jason Schwartzman (later replaced by Jeff Conrad) on drums.

They played their first show ever in 1995 at The Dragonfly in Hollywood. Most of their friends couldn’t attend because they were still in high school, while the Dragonfly only serves customers that are 21 and over. Two of the songs they played are featured on the bonus material of the Chicago, Chicagogoing, Chicagogone DVD. Among the songs performed were “My Friend Liz’s Dad” (misprinted as “My Friend Liz Is Dead on the DVD), and a cover of the Beastie Boys’ 1994 song “Sabotage”.

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rock, indie, alternative, indie rock, alternative rock
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6	Anthem full track	405
7	Hey Now Girl full track	389
8	Big Brat full track	379
9	Raise The Dead	377
10	In Our Darkest Hour full track	349
11	One Ray of Sunlight full track	348
12	Leader	317
13	Nobody's Fault full track	271
14	Turn Smile Shift Repeat full track	259
15	Something Is Wrong full track	258

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fruitcups wrote:
Thursday evening

Dropped is amazing. :D <3

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la_perdida wrote:
last week

the similar bonds for this group are SO off, maybe thats because no one else really sounds like them.

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fortric wrote:
last week

Dropped the best :)

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Vonheretric wrote:
last week

1st things 1st is their best song, that's pretty obvious.

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hauaii wrote:
last month

California! here we come! XD

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darthpaula wrote:
last month

California - such a great, great song <3.

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roxtarr wrote:
last month

Cute guys with cute songs)) Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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prosopagnosia wrote:
May 2009

LOL @ the shitty similar artists! Phantom Planet is/was (they sort of disbanded, right?) better than all of them combined.

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marcossource wrote:
May 2009

okay

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noeh91 wrote:
May 2009

Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!

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kurtsong wrote:
May 2009

anthem，in our darkest hour~~超喜欢。。。。

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suareasy wrote:
May 2009

Phantom Planet. <3 Love.

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RockvilleCA wrote:
April 2009

Watch Phantom Planet perform two songs live on Rockville CA. www.rockvilleca.com

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sqwidboy wrote:
April 2009

Awesome new CD! :D

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script-ending wrote:
April 2009

dropped is the beeeeest :)

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FRYYYY wrote:
April 2009

do the panic is awesomeeeeeeeee

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mynicola wrote:
April 2009

Hey guys , fantastic :))

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M-Vincent wrote:
April 2009

Do The Panic ! & Leader are nice

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elektra-grrl wrote:
April 2009

only like 1 song form them, and that's it.

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conditionals wrote:
April 2009

I really hope they don't break up, every album, especially post-Schwartzman (not dissing on him), has been amazing! Like, really fucking good.

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