Yes, this really happened. Remember when you first heard "Keep The Car Running" and thought, "That's the best Bruce Springsteen song not written by Bruce Springsteen"? Apparently so did the Boss! A few hours ago, Bruce & the E Street... CONTINUE READING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN COVERS ARCADE FIRE, JOINED BY WIN BUTLER & RéGINE CHASSAGNE IN ONTARIO 10/14/07»
Posted on October 15, 2007 in (27 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bruce Springsteen
Sorry for the doubled-up weekend Arcade action, but according to our inbox, we may not be posting about AF for awhile to come. Fearing Fire burnout (that's what happens when you see a band nine times in a year), we... CONTINUE READING WIN BUTLER TELLS RANDALL'S ISLAND ARCADE FIRE WON'T BE BACK IN NYC "FOR A FEW YEARS," COVERS VIOLENT FEMMES»
Posted on October 7, 2007 in (30 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Violent Femmes
Well they've maintained an element of surprise, and we're not about to ruin it for ya. But we will say that what awaits at beonlineb.com is a first for Arcade Fire. Also, a tip: Click around! (It's in the URL,... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE'S BEONLINEB IS LIVE»
Posted on October 6, 2007 (42 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Conan O'Brien | Louis C.K. | M. Ward | Nona Hendryx
This week's 'Gum Drop offered Amanda Palmer's late-night piano take on R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," and she joins the estimable likes of Nellie McKay, Deerhunter, Xiu Xiu, and Marissa Nadler as 'Gum Drop premiere artists. On top of Amanda's R.E.M., this... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #6»
Posted on October 3, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | LCD Soundsystem
"Once in a while I do something I know people are going to think is really cool. Like when I started running outside instead of on a treadmill. Or when I translate Latin for people off of monuments or coins... CONTINUE READING KELLY FROM THE OFFICE REVIEWS ARCADE FIRE»
Posted on October 1, 2007 (10 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | LCD Soundsystem | The Office
When you walk into the KLRU studios, home of the always awesome Austin City Limits public broadcast live music show, you get hit with a couple of ground rules: no pictures (hence the juicy program shot), no excessive moving... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE @ THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING, AUSTIN 9/14/07»
Posted on September 15, 2007 in (22 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Austin City Limits
You'll need a set of speakers that go to 11, but it's worth it if only for the curiosity satisfaction: Grammy's favorite jazzy chanteuse, Norah Jones, covering "Ocean Of Noise." The recording floating around the web is from Ms. Jones's... CONTINUE READING NORAH JONES COVERS ARCADE FIRE»
Posted on September 7, 2007 (14 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Norah Jones
Here's hoping this week's 'Gum Drop helped stave off those post-long-weekend hangovers everybody's nursing. In case you didn't get around to opening it this AM (or if maybe your spam filter hates the word "drop"), sift through the inbox and... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #2»
Posted on September 5, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Interpol
Foo Fighters seem to be on a good will tour, aimed directly at our bloglines: naming songs "Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)," unleashing a killer first single, and now, this. The fighters of Foo swung by the BBC's... CONTINUE READING FOO FIGHTERS COVER ARCADE FIRE»
Posted on August 17, 2007 in (31 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters
The real reason Neon Bible debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts? Bob Barker. Check the front row for excited Fire men Richard Reed Parry and Tim Kingsbury, wearing 1-866 and Neon Bible tees, respectively. Richard totally agrees with that... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE EMPLOY GUERILLA TACTICS TO WOO THE FERTILE INDIE ROCK/THE PRICE IS RIGHT CROSSOVER DEMO»
Posted on June 11, 2007 in (14 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
It's a crazy post-Stop Peter Bjorn & John world we're living in. Got a problem with an indie rocker? Start a blog about it! Dave writes in to tell us about a slow-brewing blog beef between some dude who claims... CONTINUE READING "ARCADE FIRE STOLE MY BASKETBALL"»
Posted on June 4, 2007 (145 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
The night after a universally hailed set at Sasquatch! (duh), Arcade Fire continued their sold-out tour with a stop at Portland's Schnitzer Concert Hall, ebbing out of "Neon Bible" and into a drumpad-free take on Internal Wrangler's "Distortions." Win doesn't... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE COVER CLINIC»
Posted on May 30, 2007 (3 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Clinic
Each time through our fair city, Arcade Fire's pulpit gets a little higher, their congregation grows a little bigger (read: prettier), the surrounding hysteria spirals more furiously. But the band aims for the intimate, which means Win wants you in... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE @ RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 5/9/07»
Posted on May 10, 2007 in (15 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mimicking Birds | The National | The Real Housewives Of New York City | Zooey Deschanel
Those lucky enough to choose the first date of Zach Condon's sold-out three-night run at Bowery Ballroom Sunday evening got an eye full of horns and more for an encore. After a night opened by Final Fantasy, Beirut fended off... CONTINUE READING THE BEIRUT FIRE FANTASY PERFORM "GULAG ORKESTAR" @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC 5/6/07»
Posted on May 8, 2007 in (13 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Beirut | Ben Gibbard | Final Fantasy | Japanese Motors
Superlatives get tired quick, but here goes ... Saturday may have been the greatest single day festival experience we've had yet. Staving off the 106º temps and sun with a mix of sunscreen and adrenaline, we marched across the Coachella... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA: SATURDAY'S BEST OF THE REST»
Posted on April 29, 2007 in (18 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Coachella | Cornelius | Girl Talk | Kings Of Leon | The Decemberists
Hold on to your checkbooks. Hope you already Craigslisted your way into Arcade Fire tickets, 'cause the market's about to get unbearable. The National, who have already sold out a five-night run at Bowery next month, will open for the... CONTINUE READING THE NATIONAL SET TO OPEN FOR ARCADE FIRE»
Posted on April 13, 2007 in (16 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Beyoncé | Modest Mouse | The National
Certainly no secret that Calexico would make one helluva cover band; they'd still sound like Calexico, but they'd bring it with a playlist of your favorite jams, young and old. Actually, we don't know just how deep that playlist would... CONTINUE READING CALEXICO COVER ARCADE FIRE»
Posted on April 1, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Calexico
After all the incredible artists La Blogothèque crew have had pass through their videographical lenses, it's cute to see 'em get as giddy as the rest of us would at having Arcade Fire be their focal point. They write:We knew... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE IN A FREIGHT ELEVATOR»
Posted on March 26, 2007 in (7 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
Today at 5 PM we hit ArcadeFire.net and here's what we found: video of Lily Tomlin cursing out David O. Russel and a link to a page with the 10 coolest trees ever. We refreshed to double-check and it was... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE ANNOUNCE NYC DATES»
Posted on March 23, 2007 in (12 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire-affiliated instrumental project Bell Orchestre recently premiered this fairy tale clip for "Throw It On A Fire" on Canadian television, two years after releasing Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light. The story, according to director Myron Campbell:An... CONTINUE READING NEW BELL ORCHESTRE VIDEO - "THROW IT ON A FIRE"»
Posted on March 7, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bell Orchestre
The pattern of scorching, pre-release hysteria followed by apathetic, blogspot silence by release date is nothing new, but given the relatively deafening din of Neon Bible's leak period, we thought we'd remind that you can actually BUY the thing on... CONTINUE READING PUTTING A BOW ON OUR PRE-RELEASE NEON BIBLE CHATTER»
Posted on March 2, 2007 (86 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire
After writing about The Black Donnellys' mysterious soundtrack swap of Arcade Fire for Snow Patrol in the pilot's closing sequence, an insider wrote us with the scoop:Ok so apparently Paul Haggis based part of the episode on that Arcade Fire... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE WILL NOT BE LURED BY ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DIRECTORS»
Posted on February 28, 2007 (38 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | The Black Donnellys
Monday night marked the series premiere of NBC's great dramatic hope for a workable Studio 60 replacement, The Black Donnellys. Anybody watch? We didn't either. But Heroes, which was on right before it, is on fire. And speaking of Fire... CONTINUE READING WHEN ARCADE FIRE SAY "NO," SNOW PATROL SAYS "YES!"»
Posted on February 28, 2007 in , (25 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Leonard Cohen | Lost | Snow Patrol | Talking Heads | The Black Donnellys | The Real Housewives Of New York City
This absurdist office scene was the winner on last night's Rainn Wilson & Arcade Fire episode of Saturday Night Live. As one of you pointed out in the earlier comments, "If you don't like non sequiturs, hey is that a... CONTINUE READING SNL DIGITAL SHORT: FIRE AND RAINN»
Posted on February 25, 2007 in (29 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Rainn Wilson | Saturday Night Live
Normally we wait out the weekend before telling you if anything interesting happened on Saturday Night, but because tonight's episode, hosted by Rainn Wilson, included an Office parody AND a Digital Short featuring an Arcade Fire cameo, we figured why... CONTINUE READING SAK VID PA KANPE! ARCADE FIRE ON SNL»
Posted on February 25, 2007 in (59 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Rainn Wilson | Roger Waters | Saturday Night Live | The Office
