The Arcade Fire

Photo by Sarahanah/ Hooves on the Surf One of the best things about music blogs is (re)discovering old, random gems, that link two of your favorite bands in the world together. It happens more often than you imagine. This time, I owe buckets of gratitude to We All Want Someone To Shout For for bringing Arcade Fire’s cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” back in my life. There was a time when this cover was a fixture in my daily playlists, but between new laptops and iTunes library transfers... Read Full Story

Arcade Fire is an Indie Rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and fronted by husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. In addition to mainstays guitar instruments, drums and bass guitar, members play piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, keyboards, French horn, accordion, Hurdy gurdy, lute and mandolin. The Arcade Fire take most of their instruments on tour, Read Full Story

King of Leon have September 22 [UK] and 23 [US] set as the release dates for Only by the Night their fourth album. The album's third track, "Sex on Fire", will be the lead off single and it easily outshines an earlier free MP3 offering found on the band's website of the new record's second track, "Crawl". Today I bring you a couple of songs off of the band's Day Old Belgian Blues EP. Released in June of 2006 it gives the listener a stellar live recording from a 2004 show at Belgium's AB Box... Read Full Story

Arcade Fire have digitally released a film called Miroir Noir: Neon Bible Archives . The archive was directed by Vincent Morisset and shot by Vincent Moon . The band, who took a year off to write songs, read books, “and keep our plants alive,” are offering the digital version in three sizes with respective prices. The DVD version “will ship no later than 3/31/2009.” A limited edition DVD also includes video footage of their memorable Saturday Night Live performance as well as their... Read Full Story

Spoon - Well-Alright “Well-Alright” sounds like classic, old school Spoon, with it’s thumpin’, toe-tappin’ bassline and Britt Daniel’s jerky vocal delivery. This easily makes it one of Dark Was The Night ’s most fun songs. On the compilation, it follows Sufjan Steven’s 10 minute epic “You Are The Blood.” I’ve never thought of using Spoon as a pallet cleanser, but the DwtN people did and it worked out pretty great. Listen to “Well-Alright” below: Spoon - Well-Alright Arcade Fire... Read Full Story

Let’s start off with the Beastie Boys. The boys are finishing up their 8th studio album, and its apparently shaping up to be a “pretty weird” one, says lead rapper Adam Yauch. Far from their all-instrumental album The Mix-Up, this one includes “a lot of rhyming and playing and sampling — all combined.” It should be pretty cool…thanks to Entertainment Weekly for the heads-up. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album was prematurely evaluated over at Stereogum , and they seem to like it. A lot. Judging... Read Full Story

Please let this not be true. It seems that Flaming Lips frontman Coyne may actually be the prick in this situation, as he has dissed many bands and artists in the past (Arctic Monkeys, Beck, Duffy, and Oasis, to name a few). But he claims that my idols, my music heroes, Arcade Fire, “treat people like s***.” It sounds like Mr. Coyne may be just a tad bit jealous if you read the full quote, which is posted after the jump. Can we trust Coyne’s word? Or is Arcade Fire still the best? Warning... Read Full Story

Sometimes I’m glad I have an addiction. Some people keep plants or have a dog, but others, like myself, opt to lose ourselves in something else entirely. I can plainly say that I cannot live without a few things; coffee, soda, my iPhone, and Google Reader. I AM an RSS Feedoholic. Glad to be one too. You can find tons of great things within a little RSS feed. For example, I found this post on a blog I like and it pretty much made my day. Donnie Darko (one of my favorite films of all... Read Full Story

Ten months after the release of Neon Bible and 122 shows, the real news about Arcade Fire is that there will be no news for two years. Win Butler first announced the lapse during their US tour in October, and he then blogged on the Arcade Fire website : “We won’t be back for a couple years, meaning that we are very much looking forward to real life, writing songs, drinking coffee and dreaming about sounds.” Merge Records confirmed with Puddlegum that the rumors were true, and Us Kids... Read Full Story

Arcade Fire was selected to play David Bowie's Highline Fest on May 9. With Neon Bible selling well and it shows with the album hitting 18 on the top 200 billboard list. Here is the tour dates that they are currently on right now. 03-24 Oslo, Norway - Centrum Scene with Electrelane 03-25 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega with Electrelane 03-27 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhoff with Electrelane 03-28 Munich, Germany - Elserhalle with Electrelane 03-31 Lyon, France - Transbordeur with Electrelane 04-01... Read Full Story