Tagged: Arcade Fire
The Tripwire: 2011, Everything is the New Everything
J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-Chief for eMusic, told WNYC: “In 2011, expect the line between independent music and big-name, arena-filling acts to become increasingly blurred.” That sounds about right. (Top Three Places We Saw Phoenix With … read more »
Diplowatch 2010 #4: Diplo Did Not Get Nominated For a Grammy This Year
Last year Diplo got nominated for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ favorite Record of the Year. He lost to Alison Kraus and Robert Plant, but looked real good in a gray suit … read more »
Video: Arcade Fire, “The Suburbs” (dir Spike Jonez)
We’ve gotten so used to watching videos assembled from found footage and old movies that we forgot how compelling the form can be if you spend a lot of time and money. Arcade Fire‘s new … read more »
Video: Arcade Fire, “Ready to Start” and “Month of May” (Live on Jools Holland)
We pretty much stay posting Arcade Fire live videos, primarily because we are still listening to The Suburbs constantly, and also because it always trips us out to see Win Butler hulking over the crowd … read more »
Arcade Fire Should Always Sound Like They Did During “Sprawl II” on SNL
Sometimes good fortune combines with sleep deprivation in the best possible way, like on Saturday night when we woke up just in time for Arcade Fire’s second performance on Saturday Night Live but didn’t have … read more »
Mark Ronson and the Business Int’l, “We Used to Wait” (Arcade Fire Cover) MP3
Covers! People love to cover their contemporaries these days. Sometimes a good idea, often it just leads to us trying to figure out how we’re going to add a cover of a song we still … read more »
The Drums, “We Used To Wait” (Arcade Fire Cover) MP3
The Drums‘ Brit-punky cover sounds nothing like the original, but singer Jonathan Pierce and Arcade Fire leader Win Butler each have that lethargic snottiness to their stretched-out vocals, like they’ve just finished weeping or dry-heaving … read more »
Holy Crap Arcade Fire is Stalking Us/Made the Best Video Ever
The MTV Video Music Awards need a new category for Best (only) Interactive/Online Video Making Use of HTML 5 and Google Earth. Arcade Fire, you win. For “We Used to Wait,” director Chris Milk has … read more »
Video: Arcade Fire, “Ready To Start”
The chart toppers got a little Rattle & Hum treatment of some of the footage from their recent MSG show, originally directed live by Terry Gilliam, for the album version of “Ready To Start.” Surely … read more »
Arcade Fire Stopped By The Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Arcade Fire – Ready to Start www.thedailyshow.com Those guys are Number One. On the charts, possibly in general. More after the jump.
