Our pals at Videogum commented on P4K's report that Arcade Fire are soundtracking Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly's new sci-fi horror flick The Box. Well, now Win Butler's telling the internet to calm down because it's not exactly true. Via... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE NOT SCORING THE BOX, ENJOYING WOLF PARADE»
Posted on May 16, 2008 (18 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Jay Reatard | Richard Kelly | Wolf Parade
Speaking of veteran Elephant 6ers, last month longstanding Athens-born crew Elf Power released their ninth album In A Cave via Rykodisc. They recorded "Mutiny" during those Cave sessions, but the gem didn't end up on the final tracklist. No worries,... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXXVI: HEAR NEW ELF POWER, WIN LIMITED-EDITION ARCADE FIRE & SUPERCHUNK POSTER»
Posted on May 7, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Elf Power | Superchunk
We already knew Win was all about Obama, but now Merge house band Superchunk's also thrown their Barack support into the ring (sorry Britt, maybe Mac will run for office next time). The two groups are in the midst of... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE & SUPERCHUNK ROCK FOR OBAMA IN NORTH CAROLINA»
Posted on May 2, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Barack Obama | Superchunk
All four original members of Jane's Addiction performed together for the first time in too long at the El Rey last night. The occasion was the NME Awards USA, where the legendary LA band accepted a Godlike Genius Award (joining... CONTINUE READING JANE'S ADDICTION REUNITE AT NME AWARDS»
Posted on April 24, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Jane's Addiction | Klaxons | Mick Jones | Perry Farrell | The Killers | Vampire Weekend
There's a great point here to be made for future political campaigns: If you're going to have a band perform some 11th hour concerts in support of your candidate, make sure the internet loves that band like it does Arcade... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER BOWIE, LENNON AT CLEVELAND BARACK ROCK STOP»
Posted on March 4, 2008 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Barack Obama | David Bowie | John Lennon
While SNL offered over its airwaves in aid of Hillary Clinton's attempt to woo the hip 'youths at home watching TV on a Saturday night' vote, Barack Obama was getting a similar stamp of hipster approval on the same day... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER SAM COOKE FOR OBAMA»
Posted on March 3, 2008 in Video (17 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Barack Obama | Sam Cooke
Early on and before most of indie rock had started showing their stripes as Obamaniacs this Democratic primary season, Win Butler took to the internet to let us know how close we were coming to fucking up what was in... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE PLAYING FREE SHOWS FOR BARACK OBAMA»
Posted on February 29, 2008 (47 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Barack Obama
This is somewhat of an oldie -- February '05 at the 9:30 Club, available on Pancake Mountain DVD #2 -- but it was just added to YouTube and is definitely worth your while. It opens with the tail end of... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE IS FOR THE CHILDREN»
Posted on February 22, 2008 in Video (1 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
No, they didn't cover this Mag Fields song, which is what we were first thinking when we heard about this. Still, this past Monday, Arcade Fire did get to give a nice little local shout out during their final night... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER THE MAGNETIC FIELDS IN TOKYO»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in MP3, Video (8 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | The Magnetic Fields
Like last year, the folks at action-squad have prepared a designer line of cards to give your Valentine a giggle (if they're the blog reading sort). Some are more romantic... Others more lewd... ... CONTINUE READING CARDS FOR YOUR INDIE SWEETHEART»
Posted on February 14, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Aphex Twin | Arcade Fire | Feist | Man Man
Want your Neon Bible with a little more, neon? Mix master team9 -- he of MySplice fame -- takes a go at it. He says:I love the Neon Bible album but always felt that the cover art was a little... CONTINUE READING NEW ARCADE FIRE - "BLACK MIRROR (TEAM9 REMIX)"»
Posted on February 11, 2008 in MP3 (12 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | team9
There's no doubt Tom Petty was a safe choice for entertainment in this desexualized, post-wardrobe-malfunction Super Bowl halftime era we find ourselves in, but it's nice to see the NFL still knows the imagination capturing ability of a good ol'... CONTINUE READING TOM PETTY'S SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE ROCKED SOFTLY, SIMULATED A BIG DICK»
Posted on February 4, 2008 in Video (18 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Tom Petty
Another interactive Neon Bible passage, featuring art by Tracy Maurice. Have fun toggling the un deux trois quatre cinq six tracks, and expect a spate of homegrown bootlegs now that we have newly isolated AF audio to mash.
Posted on January 24, 2008 in VIDEO (14 comments)
This past weekend a couple Big Days Out took pace down under (Friday in Aukland and Sunday at the Gold Coast) with LCD Soundsystem, Björk, Rage Against The Machine, Battles, Kate Nash, Billy Bragg, Silverchair, and Arcade Fire, among others. Rage's set (along with Tom Morello's solo turn as the Night Watchman) was expectedly political, but doesn't sound like Win Butler was caught making Obama orations -- or, at least not in the clip we found of "Black Mirror." As far as Björk and Co., they kept the ass-kicking on stage. The next Big Day stop's this Friday in Sydney.
Posted on January 21, 2008 (0 comments)
As NME pointed out, over at Win's Neon Bible blog, under a post called "good god please don't buy it," the Arcade Fire front-runner gives his two or three cents about the current Democratic Primaries. To quote:I am watching Hillary... CONTINUE READING WIN BUTLER WEIGHS IN ON BARACK, HILLARY»
Posted on January 15, 2008 (50 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton | Win Butler
In what's fast becoming a Stereogum tradition, we've once again conspired with master bootlegger team9 for a celebration of the year in singles. Of course "the year in singles" is a loaded term coming from us... CONTINUE READING TEAM9 VS. STEREOGUM PRESENTS... MYSPLICE 2.0: 2007 MASHED UP»
Posted on December 31, 2007 in MP3 (36 comments)
Tags: 2 Live Crew | Arcade Fire | Band Of Horses | Bangers And Cash (Spank Rock) | Bloc Party | Bronski Beat | Calvin Harris | Europe | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Guns N' Roses | Jay-Z | M.I.A. | New Young Pony Club | OneRepublic | PJ Harvey | Ratatat | Sean Kingston | Smokey Robinson | Spank Rock | team9 | The Bee Gees | The Cure
We saw a lot of concerts this year! You probably did too, if you're the sort to be checking music blogs on your downtime over holiday break, so let's all trade notes. Stereogum's Amrit Singh kicks things off with a... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S 30 FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF 2007»
Posted on December 28, 2007 in Concert (80 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Antony | Arcade Fire | Battles | Björk | Bon Iver | Boredoms | Chk Chk Chk | Cornelius | Daft Punk | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Dirty Projectors | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Jamie Lidell | Justice | LCD Soundsystem | M.I.A. | Man Man | Mastodon | My Morning Jacket | No Age | of Montreal | Panda Bear | Paul McCartney | Santogold | The Field | The National | The Police | The White Stripes
Finally, a list you'll hopefully enjoy -- after all, you made it. This year's Gummy voters came out in record numbers, meaning more statistically sound results than ever (the album rankings surer, the hotties hotter). But before we get... CONTINUE READING WINNERS OF THE 2007 GUMMY AWARDS»
Posted on December 12, 2007 in Video, Year-End List (0 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Feist | Human Giant | Jens Lekman | Justice | Radiohead | The National
The numbing list parade rolls on! Today's opportunity to sit in judgment of others' opportunity-to-sit-in-judgment comes courtesy of Brit rag Q, who've announced their picks for the Top 50 albums of '07. American readers will have to be understanding on... CONTINUE READING Q'S BEST-OF 2007 LIST WORSHIPS NEON BIBLE»
Posted on December 4, 2007 in Year-End List (118 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
One of the finest treats of the past few months was watching that shaky footage of Win and Régine joining Bruce & the E Streeters up in Ottawa. In hindsight that collab has an air of inevitability about it (as... CONTINUE READING WHEN BUTLER MET BRUCE»
Posted on November 20, 2007 (15 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bruce Springsteen
In the December issue of Blender, the magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the "The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph:Mumbled lyrics, couldn’t-care-less strumming, white dudes in sweaters—what’s not to love about indie rock?... CONTINUE READING BLENDER'S 100 GREATEST INDIE-ROCK ALBUMS EVER»
Posted on November 14, 2007 in Shit List (260 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Pavement | Pixies | R.E.M. | Sonic Youth | The Replacements | Velvet Underground
With Morrissey fresh on our minds and Arcade Fire never far away, we bring you some footage of the Butlers & Co. tackling the Smiths' "Still Ill" in Manchester on Friday night. Guess they're picking up on the home-territory-homage bit... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER THE SMITHS»
Posted on October 29, 2007 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | The Smiths
If you're anywhere near the Internet, you've likely heard (or read) that music critic and Ui founder Sasha Frere-Jones wrote a long essay titled "A Paler Shade of White" in last week's New Yorker, and that it's rubbed all sorts... CONTINUE READING MAGAZINE MUSIC WRITER WAR: THE NEW YORKER VS. PLAYBOY»
Posted on October 25, 2007 (42 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Sasha Frere-Jones
Those Arcade Fire kids have been tackling Serge Gainsbourg's “Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son” live for a while, so it makes plenty of Francophone sense that it shows up on a tour-only split 7" with LCD Soundsystem. As might... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER SERGE GAINSBOURG»
Posted on October 22, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | France Gall | Serge Gainsbourg
No shortage of Bruce love ever, really. Recently, Jesse Malin and Arcade Fire wrangled the Boss for cameos. But even when Springsteen's not in promo-mode, we always seem to be listening to his music. April had that all-star live tribute... CONTINUE READING EVERYONE COVERS SPRINGSTEEN»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in MP3 (29 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bat For Lashes | Bettye LaVette | Bruce Springsteen | Chromatics | David Gray | Jesse Malin | Josh Ritter | Ted Leo
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