Monday, April 11, 2011 6:35PM - By Lindsey Darden
Another year – another season, mind – another music festival. When it gets old, you’ll be the first to know.
It’s hard to believe that the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is only three years young, but maybe that’s why it’s looking so good. The official lineup was announced today and things are ready and rearing to go this August 12-14. Stadium heavyweights Muse and Phish leading the pack with two sets, and such movers-and-shakers from Arcade Fire, MGMT, The Black Keys, The Decemberists and Erykah Badu, to our favorites Foster the People and oft-on-our-radar Grouplove and The Vaccines, will take on the various stages at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:01AM - By Joseph Oliveto
The Arcade Fire delivered a surprise show in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti last Tuesday, March 29, according to Spinner. The show had been advertised as “The Grand Return of the World Famous Band from Canada,” so savvy music fans may have been able to guess who would be performing–it was either Arcade Fire or Rush, really–but we’re sure that they were embraced by their audience, as they’ve done a lot to support Haiti in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:27PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
Mumford And Sons really shined at the Grammy’s Sunday, yes? The Mumford moment kept going this week by taking home the top prize at the 2011 Brit Awards this evening (February 15). The band won the MasterCard British Album Of The Year prize for Sigh No More.
Arcade Fire, fresh off their Grammy for Album of the Year, took home two awards (International Group and International Album), while other winners included Rihanna for International Female Solo Artist and Justin Bieber (who?) for International Breakthrough.
Check below for a complete list of winners from the Brit Awards!
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:28AM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
Okay, so it’s exciting that Kings Of Leon, Arcade Fire and Kanye West have been announced as headliners for Coachella 2011, but the three days in the desert will feature a mighty collection of other, equally, if not more, exciting acts.
The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Erykah Badu, Animal Collective, The National, Duran Duran, the New Pornographers and – hello! – a reunited Big Audio Dynamite are just a notable handful of the 100-plus acts on the bill.
The festival runs from April 15-April 17 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, Calif.
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Monday, November 1, 2010 2:34PM - By Travis Woods
Arcade Fire fans, prepare to shoot the North Atlantic Treaty Organization some serious stinkeye—it turns out that Arcade Fire’s upcoming November 18th show in Lisbon has been cancelled due to what Billboard referenced as “security concerns” related to a NATO summit set to take place in Lisbon the following 19th and 20th.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010 2:42PM - By Seraphina L.
Montreal-based mega-band, Arcade Fire, graced the stage in Los Angeles twice this weekend for two completely sold-out shows. Inviting music lovers from the City of Angels to The Shrine, a majestic venue that seemed suitable for their melodramatic, choir-like, dark and rich arrangements, the glory of their brief stint here didn’t take off without a few hiccups on Thursday night. However, any glitches, minor or major, only added onto the experience which Win Butler and his cohorts quickly transformed into overwhelmingly euphoric beauty.
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Monday, August 30, 2010 4:21PM - By Krystal Clark
The band Arcade Fire has released a new music video and it’s not what you think. It’s for the song “We Used to Wait” and it’s directed by Chris Milk, who previously helmed Kanye West’s “All Falls Down” and Gnarls Barkley’s “Gone Daddy Gone.” His latest work is interactive, web-based and forces viewers to step out of their comfort zones…
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:57PM - By Seraphina L.
It’s a good week when the #1 album on the charts is by none other than deserving band, Arcade Fire. Eminem came in a close second but The Suburbs is just too hot to be be pushed down right now.
Many fans are certainly happy about this as well as other Merge Records artists such as Spoon, who congratulated Arcade Fire via Twitter. Besides the fact that we’ve been waiting a long time for this third studio album to come out and that awesome Madison Square Garden concert YouTube stream, there are a lot of factors that could have helped the Montreal-based band out. If you’re one for bargain prices, your purchase of their album on Amazon for $3.99 may have helped boost their rank on the charts – but was it worth it?
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:17PM - By Sasha Patpatia
Nearly two years ago, the Montreal, Quebec indie rock band Arcade Fire released the phenomenal album Neon Bible and began to top charts internationally as well as collect awards and accolades in their honor. February 2008 marked the end of the Neon Bible tour (a total of 122 shows, 33 festivals, and 75 cities), and the start of new endeavors such as Obama campaign shows, live footage concert DVDs, and their next album.
Without missing a beat or straying far from their signature sound, Arcade Fire released their latest album, The Suburbs, on August 3rd off of Merge Records. The album is rich with maturity and emotion, which is exactly what you want to hear if you are familiar with the 7-member, eclectically styled band. Reviews have ranged, critics have taken apart almost every track, and one has even compared the album to William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience”. But for all the Arcade Fire fans out there, The Suburbs is like a new chapter in your favorite book. Though you know what to expect, there are still surprises along the way.
Check out what critics have been saying about Arcade Fire’s latest album:
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