Arcade Fire are on the cover of this month’s Spin Magazine. The short excerpt online is about a semi-friendly game of table tennis between Steve Malkmus and Win Butler. But the full piece in the print magazine — which looks worth getting, both for the Arcade Fire feature and the revealing profile on Kid Cudi — contains an interesting confession from Win Butler:
I can’t see myself doing this 10 years from now. We’ve been a band now as long as the Beatles, and pop music is a young man’s game.
Butler is already about the same age John Lennon was when the Beatles broke up. Every musician eventually gives a quote like this one. Michael Stipe famously said R.E.M. would break up New Year’s Eve 1999. But, oddly, Butler seems to be talking about quitting music all together, which seems like a stupid decision. Also, The Beatles broke up mostly because they stopped getting along. If Arcade Fire stop getting along they have bigger problems/divorces/broken families to deal with.
[Photo by Elena Morelli]
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i.e., Arcade Fire To Headline Coachella 2030?
Will this issue of Spin also feature something from esteemed musician, Mark Hoppus? Or is that a… different Spin…sorry, truly.
I don’t follow.
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j/k, these ads are the worst. Our sales team is working on taming down skins like this, promise.
So, what does this mean, two more albums? I guess that’s okay. It’s better to be remembered for the good stuff. They might have reached their climax with The Suburbs, now they can only go down, so that’s smart.
One more reason to watch them live now while they are at their best.
He needs to retire that haircut. bink bink bink…
J.K. Win you’re the shit!
That and get a new shirt. This ain’t shop class.
Maybe he’s been talking to James Murphy…
James Murphy will still do music, just not as LCD Soundsystem.
Please let this happen!
yea, they have been a band as long as the beatles, But consider Beatles song catalog is about ten times deeper than the Arcade Fire, it also shows they have many more albums they should do if that is their standard. and its not like any of those guys retired. they all put out solo albums. Even RINGO!