Listen to Arcade Fire's New Hunger Games Track "Abraham's Daughter"
The Hunger Games soundtrack has recruited many in demand indie favorites. T Bone Burnett produced the soundtrack with include the talents of The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, Punch Brothers and now Arcade Fire. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsVimeo Festival adds Aziz Ansari, James Franco, Colin Greenwood and Chris Milk to Judges Pool
Vimeo Festival + Awards has announced it will take place in New York City June 7-9. The list of judges include Aziz Ansari, James Franco, Colin Greenwood of Radiohead, Arcade Fire's video director Chris Milk and director Edgar Wright with many more. The Festival celebrates the best online video's and their creators in 13 categories with $5,000 grant to each category winner and one $25,000 grand prize winner. The festival encourages submissions from narrative films, documentaries and music videos to motion graphics, animation and fashion. read more
Found in: Music, NewsColin Stetson Announces Tour
Colin Stetson is about to hit the road behind last year’s New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges and the Those Who Didn’t Run EP. read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsArcade Fire Release Two Videos for "Sprawl II"
Arcade Fire released two versions of the video “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” from last year’s The Suburbs. There’s a more-normal version, which shows vocalist and keyboard player Regine Chassagne dancing throughout the town. read more
Found in: Music, NewsArcade Fire Announces Charity Campaign to Help Rebuild Haiti
This year Arcade Fire has taken the true spirit of holiday giving to heart. In a report today by Pitchfork, the Canadian indie-rock band is teaming up with nonprofit organization Kanpe to donate money to the rebuilding of Haiti. To encourage support, frontman Win Butler is asking the group’s fan base (which, since the band released The Suburbs in 2010 and subsequently won a Grammy, has grown considerably) to donate to Kanpe, promising to match every donation given up to $300,000. He’s also promised to send along a thank-you postcard to each potential donor signed by himself and wife/bandmate... read more
Found in: Blogs, Giving Back22 Awesome Break-Up Songs
Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard. Kim Kardashian and that really tall sports dude. It seems like there's been a slew of celebrity splits lately... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe Bridge School Benefit: 25 Years Of Goodness
The Bridge School Benefit, 25 years later, still shows that there's magic in people doing good for goodness sake. read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsWatch Neil Young Perform with Beck, Arcade Fire, More
The Bridge School benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre in San Francisco boasted a star-studded lineup to honor its 25th anniversary — most notably Arcade Fire, Beck and Mumford & Sons. read more
Found in: Concerts, News10 Anthems For Our Generation
Like every generation before us, we have our anthems. If the ’50s were hopeful and the ’60s were angry and the ’70s were dirty and the ’80s were flaky, there’s something for us too. read more
Found in: Music, ColumnsAwesome of the Day: Win Butler Is Really Good At Basketball
At the second annual Rock the Court Charity Basketball Tournament held at the University of Toronto, Win Butler of Arcade Fire took part in the tournament. Surprise, Butler is really good at basketball. Butler joined other musicians like Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam and Dallas Green of City and Colour for the charity event, playing alongside former NBA players Brent Barry and Paul Shirley and the Philadelphia 76ers’ Spencer Hawes. However, Butler seemed to start a rivalry with Matt Bonner of the San Antonio Spurs after beating him in a three-point competition. Tomorrow, Butler and Bonner will also be playing... read more
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