Biography: Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire, a septet from Montreal, Canada fronted by husband/wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, write anthemic songs that involve group singing. Their breakthrough album was 2004's Funeral. By the time Neon Bible came out to great acclaim in 2007, David Bowie and David Byrne were longtime fans. The Foo Fighters covered Neon's "Keep The Car Running," which means Dave Grohl is a fan, too. Win Butler, in turn, is a fan of Barack Obama.
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Discography: Arcade Fire
Neon Bible
Merge Records
2007
Funeral
Merge Records
2004
Arcade Fire
Merge Records
2003
EP
Rough Trade Records (UK)
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Power Out
Rough Trade Records (UK)
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Rebellion
Rough Trade Records (UK)
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Laika
Phantom Imports (UK)
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But do they bring their "A" game? (Sorry.) The band, seemingly piloted by Arcade Fire/Beirut member Kelly Pratt, includes LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney on drums plus Jon Natchez and Perrin Cloutier from Beirut and Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire. They've completed a record, but don't have a label just yet. As K Pratt notes, "I have pressed a small number of copies so you should be able to buy it from our MySpace page within a day or two." Take a listen to "On My Mind" today. After all that namedropping, it may very well sound different than you expect. Especially the guitar solo in the middle.
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More specifically, Alden Penner (aka Alden Ginger, aka not Nick Thorburn) and ex-Arcade Firer Brendan Reed plus other Montreal musicians Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner. Supposedly their live shows involve multiple drummers and "a bent Commodore 64," but I haven't seen it, so nothing's verified. The group formed in 2007, laid low by not starting a MySpace page of Facebook (whoa), and are releasing their debut on hometown label Constellation in Spring 2009. You can take a listen to album track "Perfect Fit," which takes after its horned father, though with some bigger dynamics in the vocal line and instrumental breakdowns.
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iTunes recently asked TDS correspondents what they listen to when they're not creating the most important television program EVER. Samantha Bee highlights some Canadian faves (she cried when she met Sloan), as does her husband Jason Jones, who also lists MGMT and Spoon because "a hipster" told him to. (Who told him to include Kris Kross? Kris Kross perhaps.) Rob Riggle almost exclusively enjoys classic rock, and Wyatt Cenac only hip-hop. John Oliver's is insightful. Mountain Goats are one of his favorite bands, and he has some interesting thoughts on Arcade Fire:
"Sometimes we remember bedrooms/ And our parents' bedrooms/ And the bedrooms of our friends." That is a great line. If you can come up with something better than that and set it to music as good as this, you should stop everything you're doing and form a band immediately.
Jon Stewart doesn't participate, but I assume his playlist includes Tom Waits and White Stripes and maybe Buffalo Tom.
Check 'em all out at iTunes.
Posted on 10/23/08 at 11:14 AM by Scott in
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Rock-Afire Explosion Does Arcade Fire • If you always wanted a video of the animatronic robot band from Showbiz Pizza Place performing your favorite song, you can now bid to make that happen. The latest winning song is "Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels)." Watch it at Videogum, because they're on the animatronic robot band beat.
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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 Win's Blog:
Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring...
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Posted on 05/16/08 at 10:28 AM
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