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Arcade Fire Confirms Fall North American Tour Dates
Having just secured the top spot on the Billboard charts for their third studio effort The Suburbs, Arcade Fire has just confirmed a round of North American tour dates set to begin September 22nd in St. Paul, MN. The trek will wrap in Monterrey, MX on October 12th.
Lollapalooza 2010 Day Three: Frightened Rabbit, Yeasayer, The National, Arcade Fire
Chalk it up to a heart-on-sleeve pre-determined route, dragging my feet to as much angst as possible between Frightened Rabbit, the National and Arcade Fire, but Lollapalooza’s final day was ready to tug on some sentimental strings from the get-go…
Arcade Fire and Spoon at Madison Square Garden, 08.04.10
The ultra-ambitious and utterly magnificent Arcade Fire took it to church and set the rafters alight for the first date of their two-night stand at New York City’s venerable Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. Just three albums into their – dare I say, worshipped – career, and the Garden is the only room left in town for this multi-instrumentalist Montreal collective to play.
Arcade Fire – ‘The Suburbs’
Win Butler has a heart like a wheel, and with Arcade Fire’s third studio effort, has taken his and the celebrated Montreal septet’s wanderlust to the street where you live. Like the Houston neighborhood of Butler’s childhood that inspired it, The Suburbs is a quietly devastating and infinitely gracious mid-tempo rhapsody in beige.
Arcade Fire to Support Haiti by Matching Donations to KANPE
Arcade Fire announced to 45,000 fans that they will match donations made to the newly-founded KANPE during a show played at the Quebec City Summer Festival this week.
Arcade Fire Confirms ‘Suburbs’ Tracklisting
Late last week, the Arcade Fire confirmed the tracklisting for their third studio release, The Suburbs, due out August 3rd on Merge Records.
Arcade Fire Maps U.S. Headlining Tour
On August 1st, Montreal’s Arcade Fire will kick off their first proper U.S. headlining tour in three years, in support of their third studio release, The Suburbs, out August 3rd on Merge Records.
Arcade Fire to Hit the Suburbs in August
Needing no introduction, the Arcade Fire will release their third album, entitled The Suburbs, on August 3rd via Merge Records, according to a letter posted on the band’s official website earlier today, and a formal press announcement.
Lollapalooza 2010 Confirms Lineup
Hours after Soundgarden announced itself last night as one of the headliners of Lollapalooza 2010, the final lineup was revealed without the teasing letter-by-letter wacky wordplay, and it’s a doozy.
Monogold – ‘We Animals’
Monogold’s previous EP, Waves, had comparisons to top acts like Arcade Fire and Radiohead, but with We Animals, it’s obvious that this Brooklyn band has begun to carve out and master their own niche. Throughout the album, there’s a sense of majesty in the music’s waxing and waning textures, dreamlike details, falsetto vocals and grand [...]
