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

By Colin Snowsell

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. [11 August 2008]

Band of the Year: An Interview with Arcade Fire

By Greg Kot

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. [5 March 2007]

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

By Ross Langager

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. [1 May 2009]

Arcade Fire + Spoon

By Nick Gunn

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. [31 January 2008]

Arcade Fire

By Lou Friedman

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. [25 May 2007]

Arcade Fire

By Eddie Ciminelli

There's nothing like spending Valentine's Day out in the cold... [8 March 2007]

Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

By Adrien Begrand

After the dreamlike euphoria of Funeral, this much-hyped follow-up wakes up with one mother of a hangover. [2 March 2007]

Arcade Fire: Funeral

By Zeth Lundy

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.

Talking ‘Bible’ with the Arcade Fire [2 October 2007]

Arcade Fire can’t rein in its ambition [6 March 2007]