Arcade Fire

With six permanent members and sometimes more for live performances, Canadian outfit Arcade Fire quickly garnered attention for using as many types of instruments as there were people onstage. Combined with poetic lyrics and uber-creative stage antics, music videos and marketing campaigns, the band’s catalog has been classified as art-rock since its 2004 debut ‘Funeral.’ Indie-rock fans were quick to catch on, readily latching on to the album, which managed to make ruminating on mortality feel new again as a musical concept. The album earned the band some serious indie cred, a Grammy nomination and a later-in-life hit in ‘Wake Up.’ Fronted by husband-and-wife duo Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, the Montreal-based act maintained its indie-darling status with its 2007 sophomore effort, ‘Neon Bible.’ However, it wasn’t until they caught the world by surprise by winning the Grammy for Album of the Year for 2010’s ‘The Suburbs’ that Arcade Fire became household names. Their fame paved the way for their fourth full-length, ‘Reflektor,’ allowing for a massive marketing campaign leading up to the album’s release and larger-than-life performance art-esque live shows that they’ve now become known for.

Arcade Fire 'Here Comes the Night Time' Concert Streaming Online
Arcade Fire 'Here Comes the Night Time' Concert Streaming Online
Arcade Fire 'Here Comes the Night Time' Concert Streaming Online
Arcade Fire draw a mature indie rock audience, and it's safe to assume plenty of fans fell asleep on Saturday (Sept. 28) before the band's post-'SNL' NBC concert special, 'Here Comes the Night Time.' Luckily, the Creators Project is streaming the bizarro 30-minute disco-rock spectacle via YouTube (watch it below), meaning early-to-bed types can find out what their night-owl buds have been gabbing
Arcade Fire Perform on 'SNL' Season Premiere
Arcade Fire Perform on 'SNL' Season Premiere
Arcade Fire Perform on 'SNL' Season Premiere
Arcade Fire blazed and boogied on 'SNL' last night (Sept. 28) as the venerable sketch show kicked off its 39th season. The Montreal combo performed 'Reflektor,' the title track from their forthcoming fourth album, as well as the new tune 'Afterlife,' another brainy and buoyant art-disco workout emblematic of their new sound.
Arcade Fire Unveil Second 'Reflektor' Video, Directed by Anton Corbijn
Arcade Fire Unveil Second 'Reflektor' Video, Directed by Anton Corbijn
Arcade Fire Unveil Second 'Reflektor' Video, Directed by Anton Corbijn
The Arcade Fire 'Reflektor' promotion juggernaut rages on, as the Montreal rockers have dropped a second video for the debut single from their forthcoming fourth album. The last 'Reflektor' clip, as you may recall from a few hours ago, was an "interactive short film" that puts your webcam to rather nifty use, and while this one, directed by Anton Corbijn, is far more conventional, it's s
A Win for Win
A Win for Win
A Win for Win
The Rolling Stones invited Arcade Fire's Win Butler to perform with them at the Bell Centre in Montreal last night (June 9). The classic rockers, currently on their 50 & Counting Tour, have been enlisting artists of all genres and generations to join them onstage, and last night found Butler guesting on the classic 'The Last Time.'
It's a Boy
It's a Boy
It's a Boy
Back in February, we found out that Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne was expecting a child with husband Win Butler, and Le Journal de Montreal reports that Chassagne gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday (April 21).
Fire in NYC
Fire in NYC
Fire in NYC
"Arcade Fire STILL with us at DFA ... This is going to be one great sounding album," reads a tweet posted yesterday on the DFA Studio Twitter account. We're not certain who penned that promising Twitter missive, but we wouldn't be surprised if James Murphy was responsible, as the ex-LCD Soundsystem mastermind is co-head of DFA Records, the New York-based label with a recording studio loc
Baby on the Way
Baby on the Way
Baby on the Way
There's a baby on the way for the Arcade Fire, as vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Regine Chassagne is pregnant with her first child. The father is her partner, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler.

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