PRESS:

"The duo create glitchy electro-rock/pop that still features organic, even tribal, percussive elements that are all sewn together under haunting, dreamy vocals." - My Old Kentucky Blog

"Lianna's beautifully haunting vocals will slowly warm your heart and mind as Phantasmagoria draws you in and makes you see their world." - Awesome Mitten

"Lush arrangements that tout any combination of clean, meticulously layered electronic beats, primitive, tribal live percussion, or samples of animal noise - oftentimes all in one song." - Metro Times

"Their fuzz-frayed, acoustic-flared, ambient pop (with grooving beats) has been steadily turning heads and bending ears since the new year." - Real Detroit Weekly

"They show dazzling sensibility for layering their arrangements and changing things up on you halfway through a track." - Deepcutz

"They are a mix of the digital and organic world - encircled in sampled noises, buzzing synths and bass lines, and bullish percussion all set as the groundwork for their angelic vocals. Making music deep and soulful beyond their young ages, Phantasmagoria is the start of something fresh in Detroit." - The Loop Detroit

"The duo's vibe felt among the audience was nothing short of a unique and personal experience." - After 5 Detroit

"The strength lies in Vanicelli's voice. Often times you might think her voice is the least of what's going on, with competing rhythms, textures, and sounds pulsing through their songs but it's her voice and her very intuitive sense of melody that's guiding you through." - Detroit Gorilla

"Crickets, bird chirps, synths, ambient tones, and what sounds like congas are just a few key ingredients to the duo's psychedelic recipe that will have you playing their tunes constantly on repeat." - Aurora Vibes

"Vast soundscapes that will swallow you whole." - Styrofoam Drone

"With an eclectic blending of a variety of musical styles and sounds, Phantasmagoria redefine the concept of a computer-based band with their intricate and perfected use of additional instruments." - Stereo Pirate

LIVE:


04/19/12 - w/ DADA TRASH COLLAGE & HOUSE PHONE @ Pike Room (Pontiac, MI)


04/21/12 - w/ DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. / THE HARD LESSONS @ Majestic Theater (Detroit, MI)


(Past Shows)

03/03/12 - METRO TIMES BLOWOUT w/ ILLY MACK @ New Dodge Lounge (Hamtramck, MI)

03/08/12 - w/ ELECTRIC SIX, AFICIONADO @ The Blind Pig (Ann Arbor, MI)

04/06/12 - MIDDLE OF THE MAP FEST w/ NEON INDIAN, MISSION OF BURMA, KEEP SHELLEY IN ATHENS & more @ The Union (Kansas City, MO)

12/31/11 - MITTENFEST @ Woodruff's (Ypsilanti, MI)

12/16/11 - w/ ILLY MACK / ASTRO FANG @ Blind Bob's (Dayton, OH)

12/09/11 - w/ PASSALAQCUA / CHROME SPARKS / FTHRSN @ The Magic Stick (Detroit, MI)

12/08/11 - w/ STEPDAD / POWER @ The Pyramid Scheme (Grand Rapids, MI)

10/29/11 - w/ DADA TRASH COLLAGE @ Magnetic Recording (Pontiac, MI)

09/29/11 - MIDWEST FEST w/ STEPDAD, LIGHTNING LOVE, FRONTIER RUCKUS, CHRIS BATHGATE, YOKE + MANY MORE @ Rubble's Bar (Mt. Pleasant, MI)

09/16/11 - DIY STREET FAIR (Ferndale, MI)

09/10/11 - DALLY IN THE ALLEY (Detroit, MI)

09/09/11 - w/ SHIGETO (Ghostly International), Charles Trees + more @ The Magic Stick (Detroit, MI)

09/08/11 - w/ DEASTRO (Ghostly International), NIGHTLIFE, THE SATURDAY GIANT @ Woodruff's (Ypsilanti, MI)

09/02/11 - ARTS, BEATS, & EATS ON THE FORD FOCUS STAGE AT 2 PM (Royal Oak, MI)

08/25/11 - w/ WAVVY HANDS, TOTALLY BORING, YOKE @ Rubble's Bar (Mt. Pleasant, MI)

08/13/11 - FUCKING AWESOME FEST w/ YACHT, TY SEGALL, DNTEL (1/2 THE POSTAL SERVICE), GEOTIC (BATHS), THE ONE AM RADIO, PHANTOM CATS @ The Magic Stick (Detroit, MI)

07/30/11 - w/ STEPDAD / LETTERCAMP / NATHAN K @ Woodruff's (Ypsilanti, MI)

07/15/11 - w/ MOONFACE (Spencer Krug of WOLF PARADE/SUNSET RUBDOWN) @ PJ's Lager House (Detroit, MI)

07/09/11 - w/ BEAR HANDS, JESSE & THE GNOME @ The Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit, MI)

07/08/11 - w/ ANDE TROIT, CHROME SPARKS, FTHRSN @ Gumby House (Ann Arbor, MI)

06/27/11 - w/ STEPDAD / LETTERCAMP @ Majestic Cafe (Detroit, MI)

06/17/11 - w/ DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. @ White Rabbit Cabaret (Indianapolis, IN)

06/18/11 - w/ DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. @ Mad Hatter (Covington, KY)

06/11/11 - URGH! A DETROIT MUSIC WAR w/ LETTERCAMP, THE SATIN PEACHES, LIGHTNING LOVE, ILLY MACK, FAWN, PINK LIGHTNING, THE KICKSTAND BAND + others @ PJ's Lager House (Detroit, MI)

05/21/11 - 7" RELEASE PARTY w/ LIGHTNING LOVE, COYOTE CLEAN UP, ILLY MACK @ The Belmont (Hamtramck, MI)

05/07/11 - SPARKLEFEST @ Northend Studios (Detroit, MI)

04/30/11 - w/ REVOIR / & ROUGH HOUSE @ Atlas Bar (Hamtramck, MI)

04/23/11 - RUCKUS 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY @ TV Bar (Detroit, MI)

04/06/11 - Jesse's Super Sweet Sixteen @ Lager House (Detroit, MI)

04/09/11 - w/ LIGHTNING LOVE @ Woodruff's (Ypsilanti, MI)

3/17/11 - @Underbelly w/ The Kodaks (Jacksonville, FL)

3/10/11 - TOUR KICKOFF PARTY @ Magic Stick w/ The Kodaks, Illy Mack, & Rough House (Detroit, MI)

03/04/11 - Metro Times Blowout @ Paychecks (Hamtramck, MI)

02/11/11 - Vernors Room (Pontiac, MI)

01/31/11 - City Of The Future @ Magic Stick (Detroit, MI)

01/27/11 - w/ Nightlands @ Pike Room (Pontiac, MI)


12/4/10 - Detroit Produce Launch Party @ CAID (Detroit, MI)

11/20/10 - Pike Room (Pontiac, MI)

11/5/10 - Paychecks Lounge (Hamtramck, MI)

10/10/10 - Sparklewood (Detroit, MI)

9/25/10 - Woodbridge Oktoberfest (Detroit, MI)

9/11/10 - Dally in the Alley (Detroit, MI)

9/9/10 - Woodbridge Pub (Detroit, MI)

8/27/10 - Vernors Room (Pontiac, MI)

RELEASES:
05/21/11 - Amalgamation 7" $5 (Five Three Dial Tone Records)
50 on glow in the dark vinyl with alternate artwork SOLD OUT,
the rest on green vinyl. phantasmagoria.bandcamp.com
05/21/11 - Prelude To A Miss Vol V 3$ Cassette (Five Three Dial Tone Records)
03/03/11 - Empty Houses Single FREE (Self Released) phantasmagoria.bandcamp.com
1/27/11 - Spirit EP $5 (self released) phantasmagoria.bandcamp.com

Friday, November 18, 2011

Out Nov. 15th on Warner Bros Records, our good friends Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. released My Love Is Easy Remixes Pt. 2 featuring our remix of "Morning Thought"

You can purchase it from the link below:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-love-is-easy-remixes-pt.-2/id477046195?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The first teaser for our debut LP coming in 2012!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

all our covers & remixes can now be found in one folder on bandcamp including our BRAND NEW COVER OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL'S "IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA". You can listen and download them all for free (or name your price if you feel its worth it or want to help us)


We have some shows coming up in December and we're going to be debuting some songs from our new LP so check the dates above and we'll see you soon!

- Chris

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Check out and download this remix our friend Erno the Inferno did of our track "Bats!"

Bats! (Erno the Inferno Remix) by Phantasmagoria

Friday, October 7, 2011

Our remix of "French Bacon" for ELECTRIC SIX is on their new tour only 7". Pick one up if you get a chance to see them live! That is all. Thanks :)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

We we're recently interviewed by The Awesome Mitten and they said some really nice things about us! We chatted about beginnings, inspiration, music videos, and the future amongst other things. Check it out here!

We also recently did a remix for our talented friend Jon Zott and he did a remix of "Empty Houses" for us. Listen to both of them here!

Other than that we've been playing a lot of awesome shows for amazing people, working on remix's for some artists we're really excited about, writing and recording our new album, and working on a new songs and ways to perform live.

Our next show is this Saturday with recent Quite Scientific signees STEPDAD! Also playing: Lettercamp and Nathan K! Its at Woodruff's in Ypsilanti, MI and we'd love to see you there!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Our Love is Easy

We've been asked by one of our favorite bands, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. to play 3 out of state shows with them and we couldn't be more excited! The dates are in our "Live" section! See ya there!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Bats

Phantasmagoria: Bats from Love Drunk on Vimeo.


Watch us perform a new version of "Bats!" in the middle of the street, in the middle of the night, live, in one take (literally! the cops showed up just as we stopped shooting and were not having it) Shot by the wonderful and talented Love Drunk Studios

Our Amalgamation 7" and Prelude To A Miss Vol V cassette comes out on May 21st, 2011. We've added them to our releases section and they are now available for pre-order. OR if you live in the area come out to our release party Saturday 5/21 at The Belmont in Hamtramck, MI to pickup a limited edition GLOW IN THE DARK VINYL with alternate artwork available at the release show only!

Saturday 5/21/11 @ The Belmont (Hamtramck, MI)
FREE
Doors at 9
w/ LIGHTNING LOVE, COYOTE CLEAN UP, & NIGHTLIFE

Friday, April 29, 2011

In Our Ears

Our superb elitist musical tastes we're recently featured in Real Detroit Weekly along with a little write up about our upcoming 7" on 53DT. Check it out here:

http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/detroit/in-my-ear/Content?oid=1472979

We have 3 releases scheduled for release in the wonderful month of May. We are also shooting a live music video with the awesome dudes over at LOVE DRUNK STUDIOS

AND we have some awesome shows coming up with some of our favorite Detroit bands! Check the shows above for details!

We're excited, get excited! DEMF SO SOON AGAIN?! FLYING LOTUS, COM TRUISE, GASLAMP KILLER, M_NUS RECORDS, FATBOY SLIM, VENETIAN SNARES, WE CAN'T WAIT! See you there hopefully!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tuesday, March 8, 2011


Brace yourself...big rambling post ahead:

A little late posting this but we were recently lucky enough to be on the cover of The Metro Times and have a great article written about us. Pick up a copy or head over to metrotimes.com to check it out! Thanks to everyone who came to our Metro Times Blowout set and made it one of our finest evenings.

We are going on a small impromptu tour with our friends The Kodaks on the east coast, mostly to our friend's houses to play awesome house parties. The dates are above, if you're gonna be in any of the cities we're coming to hit us up and we'll give you directions.

We are also extremely excited to announce that the wonderful Five Three Dial Tone Records (fivethreedialtone.com) is releasing our debut single on 7" vinyl when we get back from our tour! More details on that soon but go check out their website and listen to and support all their great artists, we are so excited to be apart of this!

What else what else what else? uhmmmm oh yeah we released a new single for free download as a way to say thank you to everyone for all your growing support, you can download it in the releases section above...

Ok I think thats it, See you at The Magic Stick this Thursday for our TOUR KICKOFF PARTY w/The Kodaks, Illy Mack, and Rough House 9PM $5

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

New Online Store

Merch Available Here!

Thank you so much for all of your continued support, we feel a reward is in order soon! See ya at the Metrotimes Blowout!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Check out our new blog! We will be updating this one more I think because it's easier to communicate with people. If you have a Tumblr please "follow" us! Thank you!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Metro Times Download of the Week

The Metro Times were nice enough to make our song "Bats!" their Download of the Week. Head over here to download it for free!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Spirit gets its first review!

The Detroit music blog Motorcityrocks.com recently gave SPIRIT a decent review:

Phantasmagoria are a couple of kids who have tapped into some of the most relevant and moving trends in super-catchy electronic music over the past ten years. They are able to triangulate the influence of m83, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Four Tet, and integrate it into a sound that pulls you in, even though they have yet to truly achieve the height of any of those aforementioned influences. Shades of Detroit’s own robot-wunderkind Deastro can’t be discounted, either. Lianna Vanicelli’s vocals can transport and jar you with infectious hooks, and the soundscapes are consistently intriguing, if not always a pleasurable listen.

They also said some unkind things but hey it's all in the spirit of reviewing! (no pun intended)

Monday, January 31, 2011

Our Debut Album SPIRIT is released!

Includes 3 unreleased bonus songs, 9 songs for just $5! Thank you all for your support, it means more than you know (Phantasmagoria.bandcamp.com)

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

3 Singles Now Available




Very limited handmade singles (50 total) now available at shows, just check the shows section to the right to see when are where we're playing.

These 3 variated singles are to promote our debut album SPIRIT which we will release tomorrow 1/27/11 on bandcamp.com. This will let you, the listener and fan, the ability to directly support the artist you're trying to support, not making labels and websites richer. Plus there are bonus goods all at a very reasonable price! You'll find out about that tomorrow

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Detroit Produce Launch Party



Detroit Produce Launch Party was a major success, it couldn't have gone better. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and gave us such positive vibes, it was one of the most memorable shows of our lives and its all thanks to you!

We're currently working on the follow up event as well as our first Detroit Produce compilation album so get excited for that

Monday, November 29, 2010

We are well into working on our next album so we decided to post our entire 6 song Spirit EP on our bandcamp page, although we've embedded it here for you so you don't have to even do any clicking! (except play)


Wednesday, November 17, 2010


Come out to this show it's gonna be sweet!

We are currently working on some stuff, you will know what it is soon!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Halloweekend!

I'd just like to start this post by saying that DEERHUNTER WAS FREAKING AMAZING! and I hope all of you are enjoying your halloween weekend, Me and Detroit Produce member Keef Boxx djed a Halloween party at our buddy Dale's and it was really fun. Tonight we'll all be at The Ruckus, so see ya there!

Ok so lets get serious, our first order of business:
Our show November 5th at the Lager House has been switched to Paycheck's Lounge in Hamtramck and here's a new flyer:

Second order of business: DETROIT PRODUCE LAUNCH PARTY DEC 4TH AT THE CAID (CONTEMPORARY ART INSTITUTE OF DETROIT)
http://www.soundcloud.com/detroit-produce
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128978777157356

Detroit Produce is the new music collective we are apart of. We started it with our good friends Button Eyes, Ande Troit, and Keef Boxx, and this is our official launch party, its gonna be craaaazy! I'll be playing my first all original solo set as Eugene Jarvy and Phantasmagoria will be kicking the night off, so get ready!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Deerhunter!

Lianna and I are so excited to see Deerhunter tonight! 8PM at the Magic Stick
We also have a show coming up at the lager house:
see ya there!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Detroit Produce



Best friends starting a music collective, what could be better? did I mention all these guys are amazing producers, im excited, let's get excited together!
oh and here's a cool shot of us at sparklewood our friend alex polansky took, he also took the dark lazer infested shot up there! ^

Friday, October 8, 2010

Aurora Vibes Writes About Us On Their Blog!

"Lianna Vanicelli & Christopher Jarvis are a psychedelic pop duo from Detroit, Michigan. The two are known as Phantasmagoria and make extremely catchy music that's dense, rich in textures, and other natured sounds..."

read the rest of the article and download "Bats!" for free!

We also have a show this sunday at $parklewood, can't wait to see all your beautiful faces there

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Broken Social Scene


We can't wait to go see Broken Social Scene friday night! They are one of our favorite bands and a huge inspiration for us, check them out if you haven't already

Monday, September 27, 2010

Eugene Jarvy - Fall Mixtape 2010



download this mixtape of instrumentals Chris just released for free right in time for fall!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Mando Salvo Interviews Us!

Music blog, mandosalvo.com recently did an interview with us!


"A couple of months ago I happened to stumble upon Phantasmagoria. I was so enthralled with their song "Seance" that I included it on Mondo Salvo 35. It was only after doing so that I heard from one half of the band, Christopher Jarvis. He was appreciative for the coverage, and I was eager to do a Q&A with them to find out how and why they're doing what they do. So here it is: the interview with Phantasmagoria's Christopher Jarvis and Lianna Vanicelli. After you read it, get in touch with them and ask to get a copy of the recently released ep, Spirit. It's quite phenomenal."

READ THE WHOLE INTERVIEW HERE: http://www.mondosalvo.com/blog/?p=511

Friday, September 24, 2010

WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE!

Hey everyone welcome to our new and incomplete website, there will be a lot of changes and things added but I just wanted to throw this up so you could start checking it out.

We will be regularly posting info on whats going on with us as well as cool events in Detroit, so keep checking back for more stuff

We're playing Woodbridge Oktoberfest Saturday 9/25 at 9:30pm on the sidestage

Free,Food, Beer, Bands!
Rest of the lineup (so far):
Deastro
The Summer Pledge
Noman
Legendary Creatures
Replicas
Alphasiacs
The Kickstand Band
Kevin Murphy
DJ sets by: Frank Raines, Josh Dahlberg, Drew Pompa, Erno the Inferno and more!
We also made some home made demos recently, we have a few left, just let us know if you want one and we'll work something out