In case you missed it because you were too busy working on your “Obaminoes” mural to watch.

French it-band of the moment –which is a title they seem to regain every time they release an album– Phoenix stopped by the MTV mothership yesterday to kick out an uber-special, quasi-acoustic rendition of “1901″ on It’s On With Alexa Chung. They also did Letterman as well where they plugged in and rocked out but they did it sans boombox so by our assessment the MTV performance gets an extra 2 points for style.

From time to time we like to get all playlisty and throw more than our typical tasty morsel at you. This is nice, multi-course meal that should leave you feeling like you just had Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner in one sitting so you might think about loosing the denim and reaching for the sweat pants.

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Remember that video for St.Vincent’s “Actor Out of Work”? The real intense one with the crying and the drama and the yadda yadda yadda? If you’re like us you know it’s a great song but the visual might be a bit much for your sensitive self. So take it in again but this time in an acoustic fashion without all the shvitzing.

In which the maudlin Albuquerque band somehow manage to make a video with cowboy children, dogs on roofs and a Gene Simmons impersonator with a removable tongue come off kinda sad instead of fun.