Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images At the end of 2011, Arcade Fire will have accomplished the never-before-accomplished feat (we're pretty sure) of headlining, in the matter of one year and two months, America's Big Four music festivals: Lollapalooza last summer, Coachella this past spring, now Bonnaroo on Friday night and Austin City Limits this coming October, with each festival entertaining at least [...]
Interview Magazine has celebrities interview other celebrities, and for their latest issue they asked Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler to talk to True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård. Turns out Butler is a huge True Blood fan, but he hasn't finished the last season, so they don't about specific episodes so much as try to find common ground between the places they've lived or visited in Texas, Canada, and Louisiana. Butler also enthusiastically describes a Zydeco documentary on Louisiana's black creole population: "It’s like black people in cowboy hats speaking with this weird accent." Another thing [...]
After Arcade Fire had one of the best years a band could possibly ask for in 2010, they are to have another huge run in 2011. They are planning a re-release deluxe edition of The Suburbs featuring two new songs. “Speaking in Tongues” is the band’s collaberation with David Byrne and is quite dark. “Culture War” is a jumpy, incredibly emotional song and I can’t fathom why this didn’t make the record. Win’s melodies near of the end of the track are breathtaking. As wonderful as The Suburbs was, this would have easily been in my top 3 songs off [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , New Releases Rick Diamond, Getty Images Fans of Arcade Fire won't have to wait for two bonus tracks found on 'The Suburbs' deluxe edition featuring the Spike Jonze -directed movie 'Scenes From the Suburbs' as they've been leaked via a BBC radio program. According to Spin (via Some Kind of Awesome ), BBC's Zane Lowe show broadcast 'Culture War' and 'Speaking [...]
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Tweet I think there's something particularly special about music that's really evocative of a time or place. It's why I never grow tired of Guillemots ' "Through The Windowpane" - every time I listen I actually feel like I'm on a train to Brazil, and end up heartbroken in São Paulo. Pretty epic. The Lonely Wild have just the same touch, only in their case it's the Old West they conjure up. Formed by Andrew Carroll and Ryan Ross from the ashes of [...]
Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/mu sic/photos/photos-new-orleans- jazz-fest-with-robert-plant-jo hn-legend-mumford-sons-and-mor e-20110502/arcade-fire-0121962 The Arcade Fire are sorta like 'the indie Coldplay .' They 'get off' on the whole 'wearing costumes' thing. Most bands just have clothes 'gifted' to them from brands that want them to wear their clothes on Fallon, but Arcade Fire is like, "No. I got this, yall." This means we get to see Regine Chassagne in weird ballerina outfits, but more importantly, Win Butler chose to wear a Rent-A-Cop uniform in show of [...]
Participações especiais em shows do The National não são novidades, e canções como Terrible Love já receberam o auxílio de Sufjan Stevens e Bon Iver , e Conversation 16 já ganhou os backing vocals e guitarras de Richard Reed Parry , do Arcade Fire , em várias oportunidades. A parceria do The National com os canadenses foi retomada em um show recente em Chicago, que contava com as duas bandas pelo preço de um ingresso apenas, e ainda proporcionou aos fãs um momento histórico: um dueto de [...]
Link: http://apaintingforwinandregin e.com/ Have u ever made a tribute to your favourite indie band? Did you doodle a picture of them in ur Social Studies notebook? What if you spent the time to paint a portrait of your favourite indie band, then did everything in your power to make sure that they hung it above their dining room table? Well, that's what some Arcade Fire fan did, and now he wants some1 to tell Win and Regine that he made a super sweet [...]
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The NBA regular season came to a close last night, and the Arcade Fire was in the greater- Phoenix area to take in a Phoenix Suns game. Steve Nash is a Canadian 2-time MVP who often tries to be 'more alt'/'indie' than San Antonio Spurs player Matt Bonner . However, his team didn't qualify for the playoffs because Amare Stoudamire was secretly their best player for the past several years and he went to 'save' The New York Knicks. It seems like Win Butler , Will Butler , [...]
Photo by G. Win Butler Win Butler, lead singer of the unstoppable band Arcade Fire turns 31 today and we in the According2g offices wish him a happy birthday. Winning! -->
Filed under: News Kevin Winter, Getty Images Arcade Fire have been known to make drums and percussive instruments out of just about anything handy -- from pots and pans to stage rigging -- and so far, it's worked to their favor. But they almost blew it in Haiti recently when, right before an informal performance in a refugee camp, frontman Win Butler scrambled to find a makeshift drum. "I spotted two red [...]
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link: http://www.rollingstone.com/mu sic/photos/exclusive-photos-ar cade-fire-perform-in-haiti-201 10330/0747429 Haiti used to be a relevant disaster zone because there was an Earthquake there that stole a lot of disaster buzz from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. However, now Japan is sorta the leading buzz disaster, and Libya is also getting a lot of international relations buzz, so Wyclef Jean is basically the only celeb who is still buzzing about Haiti. Anyways, Regine Chassagne is the 'front woman' of the Arcade Fire and she made the Arcade Fire donate [...]
Video: Arcade Fire’s Scenes From the Suburbs Trailer Director Spike Jonze’s music video for the title track off Arcade Fire’s triumphant third album made for a fine trailer to their 30-minute short , Scenes From the Suburbs , in and of itself, but it’s still fun to watch the first proper preview, which just hit the Web — complete with a Win Butler voiceover, Colin Stetson soundtrack, and “coming soon to DVD” teaser.
The Arcade Fire won another 'Best Album of the Year' award from some other Awards System/Show, but because it wasn't an important awards show, they just sent in this pre-recorded message because they are in the studio working on a new album. As u can see, Win Butler delivers a zany message as the band is 'jamming out'. U see Will Butler , the Ginger bro, the other dudes, and even Regine . They claim that the upcoming album is a jazz album. Does the jazz album sound [...]
Link: http://www.nba.com/spurs/featu res/110217_coachb_music.html Matt Bonner is an alt indie NBA player who recently did some impression of Nappy Dynamite [ link ]. Anyways, he has some indie music/sandwich hunting blog, and he wanted 2 brag abt how indie he is, and how he is boys with the Arcade Fire . He did some interview with Win Butler abt basketball/the NBA. Win seemed like his usual 'standoff-ish' / 'I'm too good for this interview' self, but probably was intimidated by the NBA [...]
Afgelopen weekend won Arcade Fire met haar derde album 'The Suburbs' een Grammy Award voor beste album van het jaar. Dit tot verbijstering van vele tieners die natuurlijk hadden verwacht dat óf Gaga óf Bieber met deze titel aan de haal zouden gaan. Toch komt het niet echt als een verrassing dat Arcade Fire hem won. Elk jaar plaatsen honderden bloggers lijstjes met hun beste albums en verzamelt The Hype Machine die lijstjes om zo tot een top 50 te komen. Dit jaar was Arcade Fire de onbetwiste nummer 1 in vele lijstjes en uiteindelijk ook het eindklassement. [...]
I was delighted to see Arcade Fire won the Album Of the Year Grammy last night. Considering they were competing against the likes of Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga this was a huge achievement but 'The Suburbs' deserves all the plaudits because from start to finish it is flawless. The band blasted through 'Month [...]
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