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 Dumbo flies into theatres March 29th. Sorry for the spoiler kids. It’s part
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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 5, 2019, here’s what I’ve got. Here’s a look at Canadian music sales
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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 an incredible discography of hundreds of bands. This is the latest excerpt from
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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 for the first time last night, opening their set at L.A.’s Greek Theatre.
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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 about to tell is best introduced with a short flash-back to my first
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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. It’s the stuff that’s buried in your CD collection places you would never,
Read MoreRandom 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 1982, Argentina started the Falklands War. And on April, 2, 2018, this is
Read MoreRandom 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, 2018. Arcade Fire will be presented with the 2018 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit
Read MoreRandom 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 White show at the Station nightclub in West Warwick went wrong. One hundred
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 808: 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? Middle 40s. Dave Grohl? Creeping up on the half-century mark. Trent Reznor? Over
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2018 Brit Awards Nominees Shows How Much Hip-Hop has Taken Over the UK
The nominations for the 2018 Brit Awards came out Saturday and if you still think that hip-hop and R&B aren’t the dominant genres of popular music these days, give your head a shake.
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