PHANTOM PLANET TO PERFORM AT BRYN MAWR

Tickets are on sale now for a concert by rock heartthrobs Phantom Planet at Bryn Mawr on Saturday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. Hailed by Rolling Stone for "a full-bodied guitar attack and big, bloodletting choruses," Phantom Planet's latest album departs from the band's earlier melodic power-pop style with a turn toward a grittier, garage-punk sound. The Bryn Mawr concert will also feature The Like and Pepper's Ghost. Admission is $15 for the general public and $10 for students, faculty and staff of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Holders of Campus Philly ID cards are also eligible for the discounted $10 rate; tickets are available online at www.ticketweb.com.

Phantom Planet's music is familiar to viewers of the Fox show The O.C., which uses the band's hit "California," from the 2002 album The Guest, as its theme song. The band has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jay Leno's The Tonight Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and The WB's Pepsi Smash, among others. Often compared to Weezer and the Strokes, Phantom Planet cites Elvis Costello as an important influence and has toured with the new-wave pioneer.

Led by guitarist-singer Alex Greenwald, a former Gap model who appeared in the movie Donnie Darko, the band has played to sold-out audiences all over the country, numbering legions of young women among its fans. Philadelphia-area venues that have hosted the fivesome include The Electric Factory, the Y100 Sonic Session at the Khyber, and Penn's Landing. The band's 2004 tour has drawn coverage from reporters for MTV online and Spin, who caught the band "shaking and grooving through dark melodies and frantic vocals" in New York this June.

The Phantom Planet concert is funded through the Bryn Mawr Self-Government Association's Special Events fund. For more information about the event, visit www.brynmawr.edu/activities.

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