The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Trying to be a Rock Superstar in the 21st Century
You may have noticed that most of the biggest rock acts in the world aren’t that young anymore. Green Day?
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Arcade Fire
Win Butler of Arcade Fire is now officially a Canadian citizen
After living for years in Montreal, Arcade Fire man Win Butler thought it was about time he made it official.
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Lullaby Versions of Arcade Fire, Disney Edition
If you haven’t been to the movies lately or have been living under a rock, the live-action remake of Disney’s
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Random music news for Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Plastic (or at least the first version of it) is 110 years old today. As for music news for February
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Rock My World Canada, Chapter 27: Arcade Fire
[Mike Carr has put together a massive volume on Canadian music history entitled Canadian Alternative & Indie Reference and Collector’s Guide. It’s
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Arcade Fire Performs Funeral Album In Full
Well, that’s quite a way to open your set at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre! Arcade Fire performed Funeral in full
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An almost perfect pop song: why Arcade Fires’ Everything Now is a masterpiece of intellectual pop.
[This guest post is from David Maneke of Germany. He’s an Arcade Fire fan, obviously. – AC] The story I´m
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: Hidden tracks and Easter eggs
You have music you don’t know about and never asked for. And no, I’m not talking about a U2 album.
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Random music news for Monday, April 1, 2018
[NOTE: I’m on vacation this week, so there will probably be fewer posts than usual. -AC] On this day in
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Random music news for Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Hang on. Only two more weeks until the official start of spring. Distract yourself with music news for March 7,
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Random Music News for Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Fifteen years ago today, one of the worst concert tragedies in history happened with a pyro display during a Great
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