Arcade Fire recording 'some songs'
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Arcade Fire musician Richard Parry confirms that the band are recording "some songs" in New York.
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Arcade Fire Recording New Songs
The Quietus | All Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hazel Sheffield talks to Richard Parry about his side-project Bell Orchestre. And a little bit about Arcade Fire...
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Top Albums of the Decade (2000-2009): 51-60
A Rubber Door (Free subscription) | yesterday
First 50 down; 50 more to go. 51. MTV Unplugged (2001) – Jay-Z 52. Gimme Fiction (2005) – Spoon 53. Antics (2004) – Interpol 54. The Greatest (2006) – Cat Power 55. Broken Boy Soldiers (2006) – The Raconteurs 56. Failer (2002) – Kathleen Edwards 57. Hot Fuss (2004) – The Killers 58. Treble & Tremble (2004) – Earlimart 59. Neon Bible (2007) –...
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Pledge Drive Monday 11/9
Hi Fidelity (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Arcade Fire-Neighborhood #1-Tunnels Built to Spill-Big Dipper Casket Lottery-Home Is.. Death Cab for Cutie-Company Calls Elliot Smith-Waltz #2 XO Fountains of Wayne-Radiation Vibe Get Up Kids-No Love Hold Steady-Stuck Between Stations Interpol-PDA Jejune-Heart of Desire Knapsack-Katherine the Grateful Liz Phair-6'1" Matthew Sweet-Sick of Myself New Pornographer-Letter From an Occupant Orange...
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Going Native
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
At the end of September, five LA-based musicians – all coiffured facial hair, and checked shirts – stepped on stage at the small Academy 2 venue in Dublin to play songs from an album that would not be released for at least another month. Even though the band had only been in existence for a year and a half, a sizeable crowd was present to check out the name everyone was dropping at last...
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Where the Wild Things Are Review
Toronto Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Where the Wild Things Are : 6.5 out of 10. I've been looking forward to this Spike Jonze adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book since I first saw that great trailer featuring Arcade Fire's "Wake Up". But luke-warm reviews removed the urgency. Yesterday, on a rare afternoon without kids to care for and a free movie pass burning a hole in my wallet, my wife and I headed out to see the latest...
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Tonight: Freelance Whales @ Pianos
Brooklyn Ski Club (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
CMJ darlings Freelance Whales are playing Pianos tonight. This band was without a doubt my favorite discovery during CMJ.They're fucking adorable. They kinda sound like Arcade Fire but much more childish and I mean that in a good, no great, way. They sound like a kids version of Arcade Fire and look like a whole band of Matt & Kims, all smiles - all the time. When I first saw them I turned do my...
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Noughties By Nature #22: Kate Nash - Foundations
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Some songs have a structure and style that instantly defines them as ‘classics’. No doubt many end of decade lists will feature songs by The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, White Strips, Arcade Fire etc. All the kinds of songs that journalists wet themselves over and will discuss in future years in Q/Uncut/Mojo type publications. It’s pretty damn likely that Foundations by Kate Nash will...
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PETER GABRIEL Set To Record Covers Album
Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Gabriel is reportedly set to release an orchestral covers album. Called "Scratch My Back" the album is reported to be a "song swap" with a host of "extremely legendary artists" set to cover each other's material. "The songs are not simply covers," Gabriel collaborator John Metcalfe told BBC 6 Music. "They are major reinterpretations of some famous...
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Checking out the Christmas Fuller Project
Circles of Concrete (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Christmas Fuller Project is an independent band based out of Fayetteville, AR. Three of the four are students at the University of Arkansas. They've been playing together for about four years and have a demo EP and a DIY full-length album under their belts, but their latest EP, Green & Lonely , is their first studio recording. Christmas Fuller Project’s primary influences include Radiohead,...
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The Lower 48
Veritas Lux Mea (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Forgive me for being the crotchety 28 year old here, but I don't get kids most of the time these days, what with their penchant for stars like Paris Hilton or music like anything you will ever hear on the radio, but at least there's some kids out there these days doing something that makes sense. Teenage quartet The Lower 48 is a new band comprised of an eclectic blend of classically trained musicians,...
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Pedro, Ounsworth, and Muse
Veritas Lux Mea (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The wife is sick and laying on the couch watching sitcoms so I'm relegated to my MLB.com audio subscription to listen to the World Series tonight. Hoping Pedro can keep the Phillies in it, despite the New York media's attempts to throw him off - we'll see. On the plus side, that does give me some time to do some blogging... Ounsworth and Flashy Python to open for Cold War Kids If you're heading out...
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thus spake drake is five years old today
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Weird to think it was five years ago that I started this mess of a blog. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Guided By Voices were on their farewell tour, Arcade Fire's Funeral was stuck on repeat, and GWB had somehow just been elected President again. That's what I ended up writing about, which was a distraction from what I thought the blog was going to be about -- the confluence...
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Noughties By Nature #16: Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Funeral provides an interesting bisection in the decade. Before it: New Rock Revolution. After it: Fleet Foxes-fronted inclusive Americana, Modest Mouse and the Shins having US number one albums, the return of, to coin Mike Scott of the Waterboys' phrase, The Big Music. Hearing this some time in the second half of 2004 - it's easily overlooked now that they were as much a blog band as anyone - it was...
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News Roundup: 11/3/2009
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois is the best album of the 2000s, according to a recent list issued by Paste Magazine. Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Kid A, Arcade Fire, and Wilco also occupy the top five. [PasteMagazine.com] Chris Brown has unveiled the futuristic cover art for Graffiti, the singer’s first release since his highly publicized attack on Rihanna earlier [...]