Thanks to Tim for the Arcade Bowie and early Beirut demos. And to Ben for some new Air . Girls "Lust For Life" from Album Times New Viking "Move To California" from Born Again Revisited Air "Eat My Beat" from Love 2 Arcade Fire & David Bowie "Wake Up" (live) from Fashion Rocks 2005 Real People (Pre-Beirut) [...]
My wonderful and loyal car, Sir Belvedere, is turning 100,000 miles rather soon, and I'm having troubling figuring out what song I should be blasting through the system when the monumental milestone arrives. Here's the list I'm considering so far, and please notice the lack of 500 miles on this list (although its a good song, I just can't steal that song away from How I Met Your Mother).Immigrant
Mar 29, 2009, 7:22pm
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2009 is shaping up to be a swell year for the entertainment industry. From Mike Tyson and Zach Galifianakis to Pauly Shore and Forest Whitaker, here are a few films that we're excited to see along with some new music videos from Department of Eagles, Panda Bear and a new live video of Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" featuring Victoria Legrand of Beach House . GZA feat. The Black Lips - Shimmy Shimmy Ya [...]
For some reason track seven from Arcade Fire's first album, 2004's Funeral ( amazon ) ( itunes ), has been stuck in my head for almost a month now. From the repeated and chanted chorus of "ohhh" to the story Win Butler weaves throughout the song I just can't seem to get it out of my thoughts. So I thought I'd troll the interwebs and find a few various versions of this track to cheer everyone up in what has become a bit of a rough stretch for the world. mp3 : Arcade Fire - [...]
According to /Film, a full 3-minute trailer for Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are will screen during previews of the upcoming DreamWorks film Monsters vs. Aliens , which comes out March 27th. The trailer is scored to Arcade Fire's "Wake Up." Someone who had seen the trailer described it as "beyond the most grandiose superlatives: 'beautiful' and 'gorgeous' and 'breathtaking'", calling the environments "a work of incredible vision" and the finalized monsters "some kind of incredible technical achievement", "nothing short of real and feel very alive and very, very huggable." The film [...]
The Arcade Fire must be a pretty great band. Because there's been an awful lot of awful writing about it. I'm not being sarcastic. Or superior: I've contributed to the cause, and it looks like I'm about to do s