Video: Arcade Fire accepting the GRAMMY for Album of the Year at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards

Filed under: News , Exclusive Getty Images | Chromewaves | Getty Images 2011 was the year the Occupy movement dominated politics, but the American music industry also faced an occupation as Canadians set up their metaphorical tents in the charts, at award shows and on music critic best-of lists. In the first week of December, for the first time ever, four of the Top Five albums on the Billboard pop charts were by Canadians. Crooner [...]

By now, you all know the exciting news that Arcade Fire won the Grammy for Album of the Year. It was a stunning turn of events that they were even nominated, and I am sure that not one person in that theater thought that they were going to actually win (especially Barbara Streisand , who couldn’t even stutter out The Suburbs ). It was a moment that made a lot of Lady Ga Ga and Eminem fans say, “who the hell are they?” a lot of indie [...]