Articles tagged "arcade fire"

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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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Martin Sexton, Air, Prosser…

by PopMatters Staff

[6.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 and...

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Arcade Fire

by Eddie Ciminelli

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Arcade Fire: Funeral

by Zeth Lundy

[16.Sep.04] :. Funeral is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere, defying categorization while attempting to create new genres.

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