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Colin 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

Arcade 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

Arcade 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

22 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

The 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

Watch 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

10 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

Awesome 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

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs Wins Canada's Polaris Prize

For this year's Polaris Music Prize, Montreal based eight piece indie outfit Arcade Fire beat out Braids, Austra, Timber Timbre, Destroyer and others to take home the prestigious honor for their third full length album, 2010's The Suburbs, which we reviewed here.  read more

2011 Austin City Limits Day Three Recap

Another exhilarating and exhausting ACL Fest came to a close on Sunday.  read more