Articles tagged "arcade fire"

Sound Affects

Shelleyan Orphan’s Century Flower

by Jennifer Cooke

[13.Sep.09] :. Sitting in a coffee shop the other day, I heard “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” by Camera Obscura, and while I knew the song, I couldn’t immediately recall if it was from...

Sound Affects

Music Review

Arcade Fire: Miroir Noir: Neon Bible Archives [DVD]

by Ross Langager

[1.May.09] :. Miroir Noir is a self-aware tone-poem essay on the Arcade Fire's navigation of the post-millennial liminal spaces between commercial capitalism and independent art.

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Music Feature

Arcade Fire and H.G. Wells: The Lies Machine

by Colin Snowsell

[11.Aug.08] :. Pop music may still travel in revolutions, but not along a fixed course maintaining an even degree of distance from its point of origin. Like a moon intolerant of its gravitation pull, each cycle drifts us further and further from the cycle before it.

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Events Review

Arcade Fire + Spoon

by Nick Gunn

[31.Jan.08] :. An army of roadies buzzed about the stage, assembling a clavichord here, a glockenspiel there, plus several mic stands with loudspeakers perched at the tops. Whatever we were about to see, it was obvious that it was going to be big.

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News

Talking ‘Bible’ with the Arcade Fire

by Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[2.Oct.07] :. Five months after the Arcade Fire issued its second album, “Neon Bible,” the dramatic Canadian ensemble has cemented itself as one of rock’s most vital new bands—albeit a...

PopWire

Events Review

Arcade Fire

by Lou Friedman

[25.May.07] :. Though we've reviewed them recently, PopMatters' Lou Friedman takes Arcade Fire on post-record release, and, in keeping with a time-honored tradition, makes a pre-mature pronouncement.

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Martin Sexton, Air, Prosser…

by PopMatters Staff

[5.Apr.07] :. Martin Sexton —"Wild Angels" From Seeds on Kitchen Table Renowned as a die-hard road warrior, Sexton has traveled the globe with his guitar slung on his back...

Arcade Fire

by Eddie Ciminelli

[8.Mar.07] :. There's nothing like spending Valentine's Day out in the cold...

Arcade Fire can’t rein in its ambition

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[6.Mar.07] :. Maybe all I need to convince me of its wondrousness is a memorable experience at Coachella. That's what it took for Funeral to stick, after all.

Band of the Year: An Interview with Arcade Fire

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[5.Mar.07] :. The artistic license offered by an indie label led to the darker and more ambitious Neon Bible. It brims with arrangements that include a symphony orchestra and a choir recorded in Budapest, Hungary, and a massive church organ. "It felt sometimes like we were making a film rather than a record," Win Butler says.

Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

by Adrien Begrand

[2.Mar.07] :. After the dreamlike euphoria of Funeral, this much-hyped follow-up wakes up with one mother of a hangover.