Arcade Fire

**miaedu** · February 13th, 2011, 09:47 AM

Arcade Fire Rock Out at Tiny Pre-Grammys Show

To gear up for their Grammy Awards performance, Arcade Fire decided to put on a show that was decidedly more low-key, but no less enthusiastic than Sunday's will undoubtedly be: a last-minute gig at the Ukrainian Culture Center of Los Angeles. The show attracted around 500 hardcore fans, some of whom had camped out Thursday night to score tickets at one of three purchase points in LA, and who accompanied the band's 90-minute set with frenzied choral-singing, fist-pumping and foot-stomping.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-show-20110212

**mattgigs** · February 14th, 2011, 11:29 AM

so happy for them.

**That70sJoe** · February 14th, 2011, 01:06 PM

**KTheLibra** · February 14th, 2011, 01:37 PM

I am really shocked they won but so happy.

**That70sJoe** · February 14th, 2011, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by KTheLibra

I am really shocked they won but so happy.

Me, too. Since it's the Grammys I thought they'd go the safe route with Lady Antebellum. Nice to be surprised for a change!!!

**cron9por** · February 14th, 2011, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Mikami

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/page/1

Ha Ha that is Hilarious..
"Who the fuck are Arcade Fries"
->"I don't know but they sound delicious"

Ah those poor fools!

But they do sound, well em 'delicious'

Not the biggest fan of award shows myself.

The Suburbs is probably my most listened to album last year. Saw them live twice last year too and they blew me away. Awesome

**cron9por** · February 14th, 2011, 08:01 PM

I love the two previous albums too. And Intervention is a favourite of mine, I still remember the scene it was played in, in the first series of Prison Break!

I only got into Arcade Fire massively at the start of last year

, then probably listened to them too much. Luckily the National brought an album out to distract me for a bit!

It's always good to listen to lots and lots of different stuff, so you don't ruin a band on yourself!

**miaedu** · February 18th, 2011, 07:33 PM

Even though "Funeral" remains my favorite Arcade Fire album I was very pleased "The Suburbs" was named Album of the Year.

**miaedu** · February 18th, 2011, 07:34 PM

Arcade Fire on Tour:

Arcade Fire:

04-09 Broomfield, CO - 1st Bank Center ^
04-11 Orem, UT - The UCCU Center ^
04-13 Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre ^
04-14 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel ^
04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-18 Santa Fe, NM - Santa Fe Convention Center
04-20 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Amphitheatre *
04-22 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion *
04-24 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion *
04-25 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion *
04-27 Indianapolis, IN - The Lawn at White River State Park *
04-28 Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theatre
04-30 Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion #
05-03 Austin, TX - The Backyard %
05-04 The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion %
05-06 New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
06-09-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival

06-17 Scheesel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-18 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-21 Zagreb, Croatia - T Mobile InMusic Festival
06-22 Burgenland, Austria - Festivalgelände Wiesen
06-26 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rock-A-Field Festival
06-30 London, England - Hyde Park
07-02 Arras, France - Main Square Festival
07-03 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeenes
07-05 Milan, Italy - Milano Jazzin' Festival
07-07 Novi Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival
07-09 Lucca, Italy - Lucca Summer Festival
07-15 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock Festival
07-17 Bennicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival

07-30 Moncton, New Brunswick - Magnetic Hill @

08-31 Manchester, England - MEN Arena
09-01 Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh Castle

^ with Local Natives
* with the National
# with Okkevil River
% with Explosions in the Sky
@ with U2

**That70sJoe** · February 19th, 2011, 08:19 AM

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxef8AfVQg&[/ame]

**miaedu** · March 14th, 2011, 07:31 PM

Scenes From the Suburbs, filmmaker Spike Jonze's short film companion piece to his video for Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs", is set to screen later this week as part of SXSW's film festival.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X65PcHj6EaU[/ame]

**Glafna** · March 15th, 2011, 01:57 PM

Arcade Fire is damn amazing, and I'm glad to see Canadian music start to get out there, too many Canadian musicians who are stuck in the back of the musical bus, stuck behind their American or British counterparts.

**miaedu** · April 21st, 2011, 03:02 PM

Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire releases the bubbles

If Woody Allen's orgasmatron (from "Sleeper") mated with a beach ball, you'd have something like the white bubbles that poured from the top of the stage into the sea of people at the end of Arcade Fire's headlining set. For a few minutes, the audience pummelled and tossed them back and forth. From the stage, frontman Win Butler grinned, looking as though he was watching his kids open presents on Christmas Day.

Then the LED orbs started glowing red, purple, orange, yellow, green ... sometimes a melange of all colors. And that's when the balls stopped bouncing: Some audience members wanted to keep their power (if only to stuff them under their car seats an hour or so later) all for themselves.

In the corner of the grounds, away from interlopers, five kids dressed in neon bathing suits, neon facepaint and feathered headdresses danced around an orb they'd spirited away. They were absolutely ecstatic to circle it in a tribal conga, perhaps waiting for it to explode, talk or read their minds.

Another guy simply rendezvoused with his alone, sometimes cradling it, other times thrashing it skyward. Until he tripped on a water bottle on the ground and almost lost his grip on his prize. Then he beat a hasty retreat for the exit, possibly sensing that his position on the field was too vulnerable.
When Roger Waters played Coachella in 2008, a giant inflatable pig got loose at the end, only to float off to the dark side of the moon. Under a full moon Saturday night, no one who had nabbed a glowing orb was letting it get away anywhere. It was Arcade Fire's parting gift to the lucky few, along with an adroitly performed show, rich with hits off of "The Suburbs," their angsty, wistful love letter to simpler times.

One of the best moments of the show was the band's stripped-down edition of "Rococo," which can pound too hard with its shivering, nervous strings on the album. There were no shortage of violins and the like -- at least two players outfitted in sequins and other shiny things -- but they didn't take center stage, instead letting most of the song's tension swell between Butler's voice and the drums.

Part of Arcade Fire's force is its unstoppable sense of movement, not only musically but also physically. It seems that someone onstage is always running or leaping or grabbing a drum and pounding something out. Outfitted in her ice-skater garb, Régine Chassagne often danced like a puppet who'd just had her strings cut, when she wasn't jumping onto the drums. For "Keep the Car Running," one note was needled over and over again but so much swirled around it that it was a pulse in the darkness, a North Star for the weary.

"If you'd have told us in 2002 we'd be headlining Coachella ... I would've said you're full of ...," Butler said to the crowd early in the set. It did seem like a feat to marvel at -- Arcade Fire, once only the province of religious Pitchfork readers, now closing the second night of Coachella. Yep, it's been a good year for these guys, what with winning a big Grammy and all. And it doesn't seem like the bubble will be popping anytime soon.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...e-bubbles.html

**miaedu** · May 9th, 2011, 07:22 PM

On Friday at New Orleans Jazz Fest, Arcade Fire were joined on stage by none other than Cyndi Lauper. Lauper duetted with Régine Chassagne on Lauper's hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)".

Win and Regine also joined the Haitian band RAM during their Jazz Fest set, playing a rendition of Arcade Fire's "Haiti".

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZy1sct1XOg&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwMhUKrjgU[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSCbNpWd9I&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

**AlmondMilk** · May 14th, 2011, 10:20 AM

I started listening to them after their Grammy win

I like their stuff.

**miaedu** · September 19th, 2011, 09:33 PM

Arcade Fire wins 2011 Polaris Music Prize

And the accolades keep on coming for Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. Having already earned Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards, Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards, and Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards, the band’s third LP was just awarded this year’s Polaris Music Prize. The annual prize, which honors the best album from Canada, is selected by a small jury of music journalists, bloggers, and broadcasters.

Their first-ever Polaris Music Prize win, Arcade Fire beat out such formidable candidates as Destoryer, The Weeknd, Austra, and Colin Stetson. Along with bragging rights, Win Butler and co. also receive a $30,000 cash prize.

http://www.polarismusicprize.ca/

**TheOscar** · September 19th, 2011, 11:09 PM

I LOVE Arcade Fire. The Suburbs was amazing.

**Phlash** · November 22nd, 2011, 12:30 AM

Mine is going to be Neon Bible. Funeral was good, but I didn't really care for a few songs on that one. The Suburbs is by far their most complete album. If that makes any sense. I just feel like they were teasing us with it though. IDK. People like it though.

**cron9por** · November 22nd, 2011, 12:35 AM

Oh shit. I'm going to have to go away and think about this. My first instinct I'd prob agree with you, but I'd prob change my mind a few times

**miaedu** · December 18th, 2011, 06:49 PM

my favorite song from The Suburbs. always reminds me of Blondie.

Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHWColYQ90[/ame]

**miaedu** · March 19th, 2012, 02:25 PM

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Soulwax Remix)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drs6ZSfe-io[/ame]

**miaedu** · June 22nd, 2013, 08:18 AM

Arcade Fire to release new music in September

New music from Arcade Fire is reportedly set for release on September 9.

Revolt TV cites sources close to the band, saying a brand new track will be out this autumn. However, September 9 is not the release date of a new album, which will be the follow up to 2010's 'The Suburbs'.

Meanwhile, former LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy recently gave an update on the new Arcade Fire album. Murphy, who has helped to produce the record, told the Daily Star: "The album is going great. I'm too in the middle of it to know which way it will go in the end. But it's going to be a fantastic record."

In an interview with MusicWeek late last year, the band's manager Scott Rodger confirmed that Arcade Fire were going into the studio with Murphy to work on their fourth album. He said at the time: "They're in with James Murphy on three or so songs, plus Markus Dravs who is a long-time collaborator. They write too many songs - that's a good problem to have. There's around 35 songs with Arcade Fire, two albums'-worth for sure."

Murphy clarified his role on the album saying: "They are so good they could produce themselves, so my role in the band depends on the song," he explained. "Sometimes I'm going around making suggestions and playing instruments, other times I'm just helping the arrangements. We feel like part of each other's bands because we toured a lot together over the years."

Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/arcade-fire/...Hl2K2lYHp0y.99

**miaedu** · September 13th, 2013, 07:02 AM

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

**miaedu** · September 27th, 2013, 09:07 PM

Following Arcade Fire's September 28 appearance as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live", NBC will air a 30-minute concert special from the band.

Here Comes the Night Time

**DCRacer** · September 28th, 2013, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by miaedu

Following Arcade Fire's September 28 appearance as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live", NBC will air a 30-minute concert special from the band.

really cool!! gonna set my DVR for this!

**miaedu** · October 17th, 2013, 05:30 PM

Yep. The Reflektors is Arcade Fire.

Yesterday, we here at Crossfade noticed a curious update on local world-music promoter Rhythm Foundation's website for a special edition of the monthly Big Night in Little Haiti at the Little Haiti Cultural Center starring a band that we'd never heard of.

Oddly, though, the Xerox cutout flyer looked a lot like Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and the rest of the gang. Plus, there was a Arcade Fire vid embedded alongside the show listing. And Win and Régine's new album is titled Reflektor. And, and, and ...

Now the band's added a second Miami show at downtown's Mekka Nightclub.

So far, Arcade Fire hasn't announced any official tour dates as the band prepares to release its fourth album, Reflektor, on October 29.

But details about two Miami concerts (in addition to two Brooklyn gigs, an appearance at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit, and an L. A. show) have leaked after obscure clues began popping up across the Internet and Reflektor pre-orderers were tipped off.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cross...tclub_2013.php

**miaedu** · October 21st, 2013, 05:22 PM

Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Live on SNL)

**miaedu** · October 26th, 2013, 06:44 PM

Arcade Fire - Afterlife (Lyric Video)

**miaedu** · October 28th, 2013, 06:13 PM

Arcade Fire - Here Comes the Night Time

**miaedu** · October 29th, 2013, 05:25 PM

Arcade Fire - Live from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. October 28, 2013

**miaedu** · December 6th, 2013, 06:23 AM

Arcade Fire on Tour:

12-07 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena *
12-08 Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Auditorium ^

01-17 Auckland, New Zealand - Big Day Out 2014
01-19 Gold Coast, Australia - Big Day Out 2014
01-24 Melbourne, Australia - Big Day Out 2014
01-26 Sydney, Australia - Big Day Out 2014
01-27 Sydney, Australia - Big Day Out 2014
01-31 Adelaide, Australia - Big Day Out 2014

02-02 Perth, Australia - Big Day Out 2014

03-06 Louisville, KY - KFC! YUM Center
03-08 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
03-10 Auburn Hills, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
03-12 Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
03-13 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
03-14 Ottawa, Ontario - Canadian Tire Centre
03-16 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
03-17 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
03-18 Bridgeport, CT - Webster Bank Arena
03-29-30 Santiago, Chile - Lollapalooza

04-01-02 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Lollapalooza
04-05-06 São Paolo, Brazil - Lollapalooza
04-09 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
04-10 Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater
04-23 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
04-26 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
04-27 St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
04-29 Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center

05-01 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
05-02 Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
05-29-31 Barcelona, Spain - Parc del Fòrum - Primavera Sound Festival

06-13-15 Aarhus, Denmark - Northside Festival
06-20-22 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-20-22 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival

07-30 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre

08-08 Seattle, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre
08-11 Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place
08-12 Calgary, Alberta - Scotiabank Saddledome
08-14 Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre
08-17 Washington, DC - Verizon Center
08-19 Boston, MA - Comcast Center
08-20 Bangor, ME - Darling's Waerfront Pavilion
08-22 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
08-23 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
08-24 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
08-26 Chicago, IL - United Center
08-29 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
08-30 Montreal, Quebec - Parc Jean-Drapeau

* Live 105's Not So Silent Night

^ KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2013

**miaedu** · December 7th, 2013, 06:30 PM

Arcade Fire - Afterlife

**Abrahadabra** · December 11th, 2013, 07:32 AM

The only song I know of theirs is Intervention but its bloody addictive

**miaedu** · December 25th, 2013, 10:01 PM

Arcade Fire - "Little Drummer Boy"

**miaedu** · February 28th, 2014, 11:41 PM

Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett Scoring Spike Jonze's Her

**miaedu** · May 19th, 2014, 09:09 PM

Arcade Fire - We Exist

**CaptainMellow** · May 26th, 2014, 07:49 PM

I hate to say it but I am not happy with the artistic direction AF has taken of late, I am really disappointed in Reflektor. It's not a bad CD per se but just not where I hoped they would go musically, particularly after Suburbs. I am even skipping their Barclays Center shows coming up soon because I know the set lists will be Reflektor heavy, which sucks because I love that venue (have seen Pearl Jam, MGMT & Queens of the Stone Age there and had a blast every time). Having said all that, a mediocre effort from AF is still a whole lot better than most acts best efforts.

**miaedu** · May 27th, 2014, 08:39 PM

Arcade Fire Perform "You Already Know" and "Normal Person" on "Jools Holland"

**miaedu** · July 21st, 2014, 06:43 PM

On Tour:

July 25: Niigata, Japan (Fuji Rock)
July 30: Mountain View, CA (Shoreline Amphitheatre) * =
Aug. 1-2: Los Angeles, CA (The Forum) * + ~
Aug. 4: Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara Bowl) * #
Aug. 5: Chula Vista, CA (Sleep Train Amphitheatre) * %
Aug. 8: Seattle, WA (Gorge Amphitheatre) *
Aug. 9: Squamish, British Columbia (Squamish Valley Festival)
Aug. 11: Edmonton, Alberta (Rexall Place) * $
Aug. 12: Calgary, Alberta (Scotiabank Saddledome) * $
Aug. 14: Winnipeg, Manitoba (MTS Centre) * $
Aug. 17: Washington, DC (Verizon Center) * @
Aug. 19: Boston, MA (Comcast Center) * @
Aug. 20: Bangor, ME (Darling's Waterfront Pavilion) * @
Aug. 22-23: Brooklyn, NY (Barclays Center) * +
Aug. 24: Brooklyn, NY (Barclays Center) * + $
Aug. 26-27: Chicago, IL (United Center) * =
Aug. 29: Toronto, Ontario (Molson Canadian Amphitheatre) * !
Aug. 30: Montreal, Quebec (Parc Jean-Drapeau) * % >

* with Dan Deacon
= with Devo
+ with Unicorns
# with Owen Pallett
% with Spoon
$ with tUnE-yArDs
! with Constantines
@ with Antibalas
~ with Pulp's Steve Mackey (DJ set)
> with Fraka

**miaedu** · August 11th, 2015, 07:25 PM

Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes - Official Trailer

**miaedu** · September 17th, 2015, 06:35 PM

Arcade Fire 'Reflektor Tapes' Doc Premieres at Toronto Film Festival

Arcade Fire premiered its documentary, Reflektor Tapes, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it’s exactly the kind of film one would expect from a band whose music is a cultural mishmash of anything-goes instrumentation: rhythmical. Directed by rising newcomer Kahlil Joseph, Reflektor Tapes is an audiovisual overload of quick cuts and overlapping sounds covering the Montreal ensemble’s fourth and latest album, 2013's Reflektor.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...tival-premiere

**miaedu** · October 4th, 2015, 08:38 PM

Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes – Afterlife clip

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