Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare It was almost exactly a year to the day when Arcade Fire started dropping some 12″ vinyl singles in record stores across the world, much to the surprise of everyone.  People were cropping up online posting pictures of this vinyl that wasn’t announced by the band, something that shoppers were finding randomly littered amongst [...]

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TweetShare Artist: Arcade Fire Hometown: Montreal, Canada Members: Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Jeremy Gara, Sarah Neufeld, Tim Kingsbury Formed: 2003 Released: 2010 Genre: Indie, Rock, Alternative, Awesome Label: Merge, Mercury Singles: “The Suburbs”/“Month Of May”, “We Used To Wait”, “Ready To Start” Connect: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace | Website | Last.fm Buy The Album: Amazon [...]

TweetShare I’ve noticed that Win Butler (Arcade Fire‘s head honcho) has been wearing a fair amount of militaristic clothing lately. I suppose it’s nothing entirely new, he’s kinda been doing that since their inception, but this year it seems like it’s more along the same lines as Chris Martin and Coldplay did with their latest [...]

TweetShare Of course NPR have gone and done it again. A full day before the album gets released in North America (it’s released in Europe today) they’ve got the stream for the entire album Pitchfork just gave it Best New Music with an 8.6 out of 10, and most other sites I’ve read have given [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. By now you may already know that Arcade Fire’s new album “The Suburbs” has leaked ahead of it’s August 2nd/3rd release date. By now you may already have a copy of it, or have listened to it and have heard this song [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. Two more brand new songs from their upcoming third album “The Suburbs”. This time it looks like they were passed around to various radio stations because a bunch of them started tweeting about it this morning/afternoon.  We’ve already heard snippets of “Ready [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. I just happened to check through Arcade Fire’s various labels (as well as various online retailers, and I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet, although it is only 3:30am) and saw that Merge now have a pre-order up for the new Arcade [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. As widely rumoured and reported, Montreal’s Arcade Fire have released a brand new song. There’s been a whole shitload of rumours and “investigating” after various changes to their website over the last couple of weeks, either purposely leaving hints or by just being [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. Don’t you just hate work?  I mean, unless you have a sweet job as a squirrel groomer or leaf gatherer or something, chances are you have a shitty job. I was at my job when Arcade Fire decided to unleash teasers for [...]

TweetShare You can now listen to the whole album for free right here. It’s not out quite yet but it apparently will be. Over the last few weeks people have been glued to the Arcade Fire website, myself included.  First they changed the layout of it, then they started slowly adding new tour dates and [...]