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Canada’s Arcade Fire is the band based around husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, who are known for their unique blend of textured, eclectic indie-rock. Along with multi-instrumentalists Richard Reed Parry, William Butler and Tim Kingsbury, violinist Sarah Neufeld and drummer Jeremy Gara, Butler and Chassagne have won over the critics as well as the likes of David Bowie and U2.
After releasing a self-titled EP in 2003, Arcade Fire released debut album Funeral through Merge Records in October 2004. After receiving a rating of 9.7 from Pitchfork Media, Funeral went on to finish in countless end-of-year polls and even resulted in the band appearing on the cover of Time magazine’s Canadian edition early in 2005.
Coming up with anything nearly as good as Funeral was always going to be a tough task, but when the Montreal band re-emerged in March 2007 with Neon Bible. While Neon Bible lacks the clear-cut singles of Funeral, the self-produced album has been praised as a more mature and consistent effort than its predecessor.
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Arcade Fire and Neil Young team up to play Young's 'Helpless' at the the Bridge School Benefit.
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Unexpected cover version #482: 'Dirty Talk' pop star Wynter Gordon tackles 'Wake Up' by Arcade Fire for SameSame's Lounge Room session.
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Can "The Suburbs' win another major award for the Arcade Fire's trophy cabinet?
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Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' will be reissued with new tracks including a collaboration with Talking Heads’ singer David Byrne.
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After winning five Juno awards the Aracde Fire have celebrated with a surprise set in Haiti.
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The official trailer for Arcade Fire’s Spike Jonze-directed short film, 'Scenes From The Suburbs'.
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Muse, My Chemical Romance, Dave Grohl, Foals, Arcade Fire and Justin Bieber among the winners at the NME awards.
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What will it take to get Arcade Fire back in Australia? Their record label has launched a petition to make it happen.
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Arcade Fire will have to stock up on brass polish after following their shock Grammys win by collecting two Brit awards.
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Arcade Fire, Black Keys and, er, The Doors are among this year's Grammys winners.
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Neil Young Vs Beiber! Celine Dion Vs Broken Social Scene! The nominations for the Canadian version of the ARIA’s - the Juno awards - are out.
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Arcade Fire are “not good people” and have "a very mainstream way of thinking" despite their indie appearance, according to a former collaborator.
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Foals and Arcade Fire lead the (slightly confusing) nominations for this year's NME Awards.
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The Brit awards are to the ARIAs as the Barmy Army team is to Ponting’s recent batting average. Discuss.
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The daring nominations for the 2011 Grammy awards have been announced with Arcade Fire, Muse and Pearl Jam all honoured.
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