Sam Patch: Yeah You, and I
Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury steps out on his own with a winning, engaging solo project full of analog synths and killer hooks.
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‘Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes’ Is Supposed to be Hypnotic
The Reflektor Tapes is 66 minutes long but feels like three hours of pretension. The bonus concert film Live at Earl's Court is nearly two hours long but breezes by.
Panorama Festival: FKA twigs and Arcade Fire Convey Passion
The inaugural Panorama Festival invited ticket holders into a big, shiny, technology-savvy paradise that carried promise for future installments.
Panorama to New Yorkers: “Gimme All Your Love” and Sweat Stains, Too
Rock of the Aughts highlighted the debut day of New York City's brand-new music festival.
Sarah Neufeld Gets Physical With “The Ridge”
Sarah Neufeld has recorded in underground parking garages, toured with Arcade Fire, and recorded remarkable music with Colin Stetson. She's also made some superior solo recordings, and her latest, The Ridge, encourages listeners to feel the music along with her.
PopTalk: The Poptimism and Rockism Debate
In 2015, the "poptimism vs. rockism" debate has inspired a rash of thinkpieces and Twitter arguments. Is this debate actually saying anything, though?
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Takes to a Black Cab to Play “Madonna” (video)
Space is tight in the back of the Black Cab Sessions, but that doesn't stop Will Butler from delivering a spirited version of his tune "Madonna".
Will Butler: Policy
Arcade Fire's Will Butler unapologetically leans into solo project stereotypes by making an album that sounds just like a diluted version of the band's early records.
Guessing the 2015 Grammys
PopMatters predicts a night of newcomers, huge sweeps, and some love for two theme songs from 2013.
The Concept Album As a Performative Genre
Pink Floyd’s concept album The Wall is a key example of an artwork that the studies of the musical theatre are overlooking.
In Kierkegaard’s Reflektion?: Arcade Fire in a “Reflective Age”
Like Kierkegaard did more than a century-and-a-half ago, Arcade Fire has the courage to ask whether our experience of the world is really as spectral, thin, and shallow as it sometimes seems.
Arcade Fire – “You Already Know” (video)
Just this morning Arcade Fire dropped a brand new video for the tune "You Already Know". Please tell us your thoughts in the comments below.