“2.3.05 Sat in with Arcade Fire, the Montreal band, last night at Irving Plaza … apparently a video of me singing with them is already up on the web…” Read the full Arcade Fire post at davidbyrne.com.
(AF pic via BrklynVgn, Byrne link via Brian.)
Elsewhere: NY Times‘ David Carr looks at this indie rock buzz bin they call Montreal, and Arcade Fire get some Juno nods.
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Welcome back to the Stereogum fold, Arcade Fire. I’m glad scott isn’t cowtowing to all of the haters out there. The Arcade Fire are the real deal.
What’s great is that there seems to be about 100 times more articles and posts grumbling about “all that hype about the Arcade Fire” than actual said hype. Where is it??
Anyway, they simply have great music and that Byrne performance is fantastic.
Now if all the Arcade Fire fanatics would go out and buy the first 5 Talking Heads albums I’d be happy.
arcade fire reminds me so much of old talking heads.
you can get the nytimes article from google news @ http://news.google.com/news?as_q=arcade+fire&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nsrc=new+york+times&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=9&as_minm=1&as_maxd=8&as_maxm=2 without having to register.
It’s funny that both this NYT article and the Spin article it seems to be lifted from talk about this as if it were new. For Canadians, people like the Dears and–godforfend–Sam Roberts have been around for years. The Unicorns have been around so long they’ve broken up! Vice left Montreal for New York like five years ago! Next thing you know they’ll be talking about all these great “new” bands from Toronto, like Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers.
And is it just me, or was the article obnoxiously anti-francophone?
Oh, and Scott, I don’t know if you had anything to do with this, but I HATE THAT AD BEFORE THE COMMENTS PAGE. Really, very irritating.
Hey growing up in montreal it’s nice to see good music coming rfom the city. funny thing is Canadians barelyu recognize good homegrown talent when they see it. i think the majority of canadians listen to crap but i’ll let you decide >> here’s what’s up for music awards in canada. (at least arcade fire and stars got nominated) http://www3.junoawards.ca/05_2005_nominees.php
k well there is some other good canadian talent there as well. like k-os, death from above 1979,
and A C Newman.
so will butler goes to my school and is an editor of a poetry literary mag here, and i have to suppress all urges to submit ‘i want the arcade fire’s babies’ haikus and/or poetry. what a character.
Back in November, I had the pleasure not only to see The Arcade Fire play at the Halifax Pop Explosion, but to eat pancakes with Richard (the tall and lovable redheaded dude) and Jeremy (the drummer) the morning of the show.
Super nice dudes, super nice music.
Plus they have the cutest violinist on Earth.
I always thought Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) had a talking heads feel to it….
Arcade Fire is awesome but forget them for the moment. Now I am obsessed with finding the Hasidic reggae artist named Matisyahu that I found out about on the David Bynne site…. wonderfully ODD.
Wonderful Site !!!
Hi everyone… does anybody here have the David Byrne´s MAKE BELIEVE MAMBO full clip?… email me pleeeeeeease..!!!
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Arcade Fire did that awesome cover of Naive Melody.
Hallo! Es hat sich doch gezeigt, dass die 301 Umleitung einer minus-31 Domain nichts bringt weil die Seite auf die umgeleitet wird auch auf Platz 31 landet. Wenn nun jemand seine -31 Domain auf meine Domain umleiten wurde um mich als Konkurrenten zu argern, gabe es fur mich keine Moglichkeit diese Manipulation herauszufinden.
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Ich wurde ratseln was ich falsch gemacht hatte und dabei ist es nur ein Trick der Konkurrenz. Edit: Ich habe die Frage vergessen! Gibt es doch eine Moglichkeit herauszufinden ob jemand seine Domain auf meine umgeleitet hat?