Phantom Planet’s first album not to feature drummer and founding member Jason Schwartzman, who departed the group in 2003 to focus on his acting career, Raise the Dead finds the versatile Los ...

From the beginning, Phantom Planet seemed doomed to exist as a footnote, or as several. It was the band featuring Rushmore star Jason Schwartzman as a drummer, then it was the source of the ...

Los Angeles rock stalwarts — and the band behind the ubiquitous early 2000s hit/"The O.C." theme song "California" — Phantom Planet will be in town Tuesday, playing Rose Park with I Don't Know How But ...

Five years ago, Phantom Planet was momentarily famous for two reasons. The first was a catchy pop sound so sunny that "California" became the ubiquitous theme for "The O.C." The second was the ...

Alex Greenwald famously covered Radiohead's "Just" with Mark Ronson, so it's (ahem) no surprise that his band busted out some Radiohead Wednesday night in Jersey City. At White Eagle Hall, Phantom ...

We’ve got to do something about this whole “phantom planet thing,” or so says a general in the marvelously-titled The Phantom Planet. Made in 1961, immortalized by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a ...