Watch the Arcade Fire Cover Jay Reatard's "Oh It's Such A Shame"
Arcade Fire’s new album, The Suburbs, drops today via Merge. The album is also streaming on NPR, and the anthemic rock collective has announced plans to stream its Aug. 5 show at Madison Garden live with a multi-camera endeavor directed by Terry Gilliam. Phew. Now, if by some strange chance you just haven’t got enough of these folks yet, there’s more: a cover of Jay Reatard.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsArcade Fire: The Suburbs
In the annals of recent Important Rock Bands, the '90s had the self-destruction of Nirvana, the slacker ethos of Pavement and the glorious noise of Sonic Youth... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsListen to the New Arcade Fire Album and Watch a Salsa Orchestra Cover the Band
The Arcade Fire has released nearly every tiny, intimate detail about their sprawling new album, The Suburbs, which is due out from Merge tomorrow. With the eight different (but similar) covers, four of the album’s sixteen tracks, tour details and a webcast directed by Terry Gilliam live from New York, could Win & Co. do any more to whip up a rabid album frenzy? The answer is yes, courtesy of NPR, which is streaming the entire album now.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTerry Gilliam to Direct Arcade Fire Webcast
Despite rumors that the webcast of Arcade Fire’s upcoming Madison Square Garden show will be directed by Spike Jonze, Spinner reports that the YouTube event will be spearheaded by Terry Gilliam. A member of the Monty Python collective, Gilliam also sat in the director’s chair for 12 Monkeys, Brazil, and more recently, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsArcade Fire to Stream Madison Square Garden Gig Online
The hype leading up to Arcade Fire’s Aug. 3 release of The Suburbs has been a long-lived and oft-talked-about thing. From the funky record widget they first posted on their website with previews of songs “Month of May” and “The Suburbs” to four of sixteen tracks streaming on the internet, the music promises to be something worth remembering. Not only that, but the collective released the album’s eight similar-but-different covers and are challenging the public to raise money for charity. Oh, Arcade Fire, you tease, you.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsArcade Fire Reveals All Eight Covers for New Album
Boy, those crazy kids in the Arcade Fire, they go big or go home, right? read more
Found in: Music, NewsI Write Like Compares Big Boi, Sleigh Bells to Stephen King, Dan Brown
Sure, we writerly types would all like to think we’re the next Nabokov or Hemingway. Luckily, I Write Like is here to fulfill all our unreasonable delusions! The website invites you to put in your finest literary work and, through a presumably-algorithmic analysis tool, tells you what great writer your work resembles. Of course, the Tumblr community promptly went and destroyed our precious egos by informing us that, according to I Write Like, Mel Gibson’s rants had airs of Chuck Palahniuk, LFO’s “Summer Girls” echoed Vonnegut and Justin Bieber’s “Baby” was in the tradition of James Joyce. With that in... read more
Found in: Books, NewsThe Members of the Arcade Fire Want You to Help Them Give $1 Million to Haiti
At this year’s Quebec Summer Festival, the Arcade Fire took the stage to share some music before making a promise and plea to their fans. Lead singers Win Butler and Régine Chassagne announced that they had formed Kanpe, a non-profit organization for Canadians to help Haiti in its current state of poverty. Butler told audience members they could donate $5 to the relief by sending a text to 30333 and that Arcade Fire would match every dollar, up to $1 million (Canadian). The Haitian band Ram, which opened the concert, joined Arcade Fire on stage to play its song “Haiti”... read more
Found in: Music, NewsLCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Wants to Work With the Arcade Fire
It seems as if LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy suffers from that same there’s-not-enough-hours-in-the-day feeling as the rest of us. A self-proclaimed “busy person by nature,” Murphy’s recent interview with BBC News (via self-titled) seems to indicate that it’s too early to consider LCD Soundsystem off the map quite yet.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSeventeen Music and Movie Website Superlatives
Last week, we shared our favorite music of 2010 (so far). Today, we decided to throw the Internet into the mix. Below, we award superlatives to a smattering of music and movie artist websites.... read more
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