Arcade Fire

[miaedu]

Canadian rock band Arcade Fire's new album, "The Suburbs," is set for release on Aug. 3, the group's label Merge announced today. The album's first single, also entitled "The Suburbs" and backed with "Month of May," will be released as a 12-inch single on May 27, and fans who preorder the album will be given a digital download of the two tracks immediately.

Arcade Fire is scheduled to perform at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago just days after the release of "The Suburbs."

"The Suburbs" is Arcade Fire's follow-up to "Neon Bible," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in March 2007 and has sold 421,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The band has been working on the album for more than six months with producer Markus Dravs, who also helmed "Neon Bible." There has been speculation that Owen Pallett, the Polaris Prize-winning creative force behind Final Fantasy, has been working on the album's arrangements. He previously arranged strings for Arcade Fire, and fueled rumors by recently cryptically posting on Twitter that he had "just completed 10 days on the best album I've ever had the pleasure of working on."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/arcade-fire-unveil-the-suburbs-1004094257.story

 

[miaedu]

listen to the new tracks here:

http://onethirtybpm.com/2010/05/26/mp3-arcade-fire-the-suburbsmonth-of-may/

 

[pixie77]

Thanks MIAEDU for this post and links I love this band.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6M4PWKvq4[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

The third Arcade Fire LP, The Suburbs, is out August 2 in the UK/Europe and August 3 in the U.S. via Merge. So far, four songs have been released into the internet wilds: "The Suburbs", "Month of May", "Ready to Start" and "We Used to Wait". But there are still 12 more songs to go, which means that there are 16 songs total on The Suburbs, easily making it Arcade Fire's most overflowing work to date (if judged solely on the number of songs involved). In other words, the tracklist is below:

The Suburbs:

01 The Suburbs
02 Ready to Start
03 Modern Man
04 Rococo
05 Empty Room
06 City With No Children
07 Half Light I
08 Half Light II (No Celebration)
09 Suburban War
10 Month of May
11 Wasted Hours
12 Deep Blue
13 We Used to Wait
14 Sprawl I (Flatland)
15 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16 The Suburbs (Continued)

 

[CaptainMellow]

One of my current favorites. Seeing them August 4th @ MSG, and with Spoon opening!! Can't wait.

 

[Mendax]

I absolutely adore this band. Funeral has almost brought me to tears on multiple occasions. Can't wait for the new album, it's been a long time coming.

P.S. I'm so jealous Captain. Take me with you?

 

[miaedu]

Arcade Fire - 2010 tour dates

7-June Sherbrooke ONT - Theater Granada
8-June Sherbrooke ONT - Theater Granada

30-June Rättvik, Sweden - Dalhalla
2-July Tromøy, Norway - Hove Festival
4-July Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
9-July County Kildare, Ireland - Oxegen Festival

12-July Quebec, Canada - Quebec City Summer Festival
13-July Ottawa, Canada - Ottawa Bluesfest
31-July Montreal - Osheaga
1-Aug Boston - Bank of America Pavillion
2-Aug Philadelphia - Mann Centre for the Performing arts *
4-Aug New York - Madison Square Garden *
6-Aug Washington DC (Columbia MD) - Merriweather Post Pavilion *
8-Aug Chicago - Lollapalooza
9-Aug Nashville - Ryman Auditorium
11-Aug Atlanta - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre *
14-Aug Toronto - Olympic Island

27-Aug Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival
27-Aug Reading, UK - Reading Festival
29-Aug Saint Cloud, France - Rock En Seine
2-Sept Bologna, Italy - I-Day Festival

* w/ Spoon

 

[pixie77]

don't supose they'll ever get down here...dam...but one day ?

 

[miaedu]

Arcade Fire's new album 'The Suburbs' to be released with eight different covers?

Arcade Fire's forthcoming new album 'The Suburbs' could be set to be released with eight different covers.

According to reports on MBVMusic.com, the Canadian group's third studio effort will be released with multiple cover designs.

They go on to say that the ADA (Alternative Distribution Alliance), the people who distribute albums to retailers, have listed such information about the band's upcoming August 2 release in their sales catalogue.

Despite such reports, neither the group's official website or record label have confirmed such allegations.


http://www.nme.com/news/arcade-fire/51653

 

[miaedu]

The forthcoming Arcade Fire album, will come equipped with eight different covers. Today, Consequence of Sound has apparently uncovered all eight covers, and they're... not that different from each other.

Each cover features the same car, the same band logo, and the same basic composition. The coloring changes, as does whatever scenery the car happens to be pointed at. But every cover depicts a pretty similar suburban tableau. You can see all eight above, or a slightly larger version over at Consequence of Sound.

Maybe the whole thing is a commentary on how similar and interchangeable all these different suburban scenes are? Whatever the case, the album arrives August 2 in the UK/Europe and August 3 in the U.S. via Merge.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/07/15/check-out-the-eight-covers-for-arcade-fires-the-suburbs/

 

[Yeehaw]

My fave cover is the 7th, least fave is the 3rd.

 

[miaedu]

With the release of Arcade Fire's third LP, The Suburbs, about two weeks away (August 2 in the UK/Europe and August 3 in the U.S. via Merge), the hype cycle is going into overdrive.

First, Seattle radio station The End has 30 second snippets of every song from the record streaming on their site right now.

http://blogs.1077theend.com/internbryce/2010/07/20/listen-to-the-whole-arcade-fire-album/

 

[ohhi12]

love 'em.

http://www.blogotheque.net/Arcade-Fire,2868

 

[zingerz]

best canadian rock!
seriously need to bring some broken social scene on tour and the whole collab

 

[miaedu]

BBC Review

A complex, captivating work that retains its magic and mystery several plays later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/nm4z

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQbYegL6sc[/ame]

Arcade Fire took Jay Reatard's snot-flinging punk scorcher "Oh It's Such a Shame" and turned it into a stadium-ready, harmony-laden anthem. This band is pretty good at stadium-ready, harmony-laden anthems.

Perhaps they'll reprise the tribute during their Madison Square Garden webcast this Thursday? We'll see. Until then, watch a fan-filmed YouTube vid of the cover--

 

[miaedu]

Damn, missed their webcast last night from Madison Square Gardens.

 

[NomineDetracto]

the webcast of the concert last night was really great! i'm going to search around for mp3s of the show because the live version of Month Of May was fantastic.

 

[CaptainMellow]

the webcast of the concert last night was really great! i'm going to search around for mp3s of the show because the live version of Month Of May was fantastic.

I was at the show Wednesday night and it was truly one of the best nights I have ever had at a concert, in my top 5 shows of all time. The fact that I had great floor seats helped.

I bought the CD Tuesday morning and played it non-stop for the next 2 days in preparation. Great CD btw (obsessing over track #4 "Rococo"), but thats too be expected.

The evening started with a surprise set from violinist/vocalist Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) who does work with Arcade Fire occasionally. He used a sampler to great effect and his voice is very pretty and haunting. But the songs were a bit too avant garde for me and while I didn't hate them, I was bored for most of his set. I thought he might just do 2 or 3 songs tops but he ended up doing around 7 or 8.

He is awfully cute, and openly gay.

Former MTV veejay & human music encyclopedia Matt Pinfield warmed up the audience (and plugged his New York morning radio show) next. I think he was a bit buzzed LOL.

The night finally got into gear for me as another my favorite bands, Spoon, came out and did a blistering, but too short set. I think Pallett ate into their time. I saw them headline at Radio City only several months ago so I wasn't especially upset by their short window to play, but would have loved 2, 3 more songs ("Beast & Dragon adored" especially). Awesome brass section.

After a fairly brief interval, AF took the stage to an enthusiasm I have rarely seen, and I have been to a lot (I'm not kidding, I mean a LOT!) of concerts. The entire crowd was on their feet from the second they took the stage and didn't sit down for the rest of the night. Indeed they were hooping, hollering, whistling, chanting, dancing, and singing along with every single song. I won't bother to go through the setlist for highlights (you can find that on other blogs) because their wasn't a clunker the entire night, the band was tight, Will and (especially) Regine were in fine voice and every song was a home run. They did a great job of mixing the new stuff from "Suburbs" with "Funeral" & "Neon Bible" and I especially loved how members switched around on instruments after almost every song (Regine played about 4 including drums). By the time they finished the night with "Wake up" they had the crowd in a frenzy, my voice was hoarse all day Thursday.

I did almost get into a altercation with a straight couple in front of me, they kept smoking joint after joint, and by the time the wife/girlfriend started rolling up the 4th of the night I tapped the guy on the shoulder and told him that I think it was enough, their weed was especially strong and bothered me and especially a friend I was with who has allergies. I usually try to avoid confrontation, and I'm not an anti pot scold, but they were especially obnoxious with it. At first the guy started to put up a defense, but I just cut him short and told him I could call over a security guard, he started to inch toward my face but his partner put her hand on his arm and he backed down. When he turned back and faced the stage she looked at me and mouthed "sorry", so it was cool, but I swear I was about to kick some breeder butt. Otherwise, It was a fantastic night and I can't wait to see them again ASAP.

 

[miaedu]

I was at the show Wednesday night and it was truly one of the best nights I have ever had at a concert, in my top 5 shows of all time. The fact that I had great floor seats helped.

I bought the CD Tuesday morning and played it non-stop for the next 2 days in preparation. Great CD btw (obsessing over track #4 "Rococo"), but thats too be expected.

The evening started with a surprise set from violinist/vocalist Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) who does work with Arcade Fire occasionally. He used a sampler to great effect and his voice is very pretty and haunting. But the songs were a bit too avant garde for me and while I didn't hate them, I was bored for most of his set. I thought he might just do 2 or 3 songs tops but he ended up doing around 7 or 8.

He is awfully cute, and openly gay.

Former MTV veejay & human music encyclopedia Matt Pinfield warmed up the audience (and plugged his New York morning radio show) next. I think he was a bit buzzed LOL.

The night finally got into gear for me as another my favorite bands, Spoon, came out and did a blistering, but too short set. I think Pallett ate into their time. I saw them headline at Radio City only several months ago so I wasn't especially upset by their short window to play, but would have loved 2, 3 more songs ("Beast & Dragon adored" especially). Awesome brass section.

After a fairly brief interval, AF took the stage to an enthusiasm I have rarely seen, and I have been to a lot (I'm not kidding, I mean a LOT!) of concerts. The entire crowd was on their feet from the second they took the stage and didn't sit down for the rest of the night. Indeed they were hooping, hollering, whistling, chanting, dancing, and singing along with every single song. I won't bother to go through the setlist for highlights (you can find that on other blogs) because their wasn't a clunker the entire night, the band was tight, Will and (especially) Regine were in fine voice and every song was a home run. They did a great job of mixing the new stuff from "Suburbs" with "Funeral" & "Neon Bible" and I especially loved how members switched around on instruments after almost every song (Regine played about 4 including drums). By the time they finished the night with "Wake up" they had the crowd in a frenzy, my voice was hoarse all day Thursday.

I did almost get into a altercation with a straight couple in front of me, they kept smoking joint after joint, and by the time the wife/girlfriend started rolling up the 4th of the night I tapped the guy on the shoulder and told him that I think it was enough, their weed was especially strong and bothered me and especially a friend I was with who has allergies. I usually try to avoid confrontation, and I'm not an anti pot scold, but they were especially obnoxious with it. At first the guy started to put up a defense, but I just cut him short and told him I could call over a security guard, he started to inch toward my face but his partner put her hand on his arm and he backed down. When he turned back and faced the stage she looked at me and mouthed "sorry", so it was cool, but I swear I was about to kick some breeder butt. Otherwise, It was a fantastic night and I can't wait to see them again ASAP.

Great review. Made me feel like I was there.