Despite the rain and oceans of unspeakable effluence, despite the contentious inclusion of a “real” Metal band and the scandalous accusations suggesting the presence of a Country & Western ventriloquism act (directed at a real life Dolly) and, despite the rather telling lack of lobster and Prosecco to be found among the more up scale…
Canadian band Arcade Fire have announced today that they will be releasing a new album next year. Speaking on their Twitter news feed, they said: BREAKING! New Arcade Fire album coming next year, Mercury Records has confirmed. — Arcade Fire tube (@ArcadeFireTube) July 13, 2012 The album will be the follow up to 2010’s critically…
Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait It’s tricky third album time for the Canadian rockers, and there is a lot riding on the forthcoming ‘The Suburbs’. After the initial critical and commercial success of second album ‘Neon Bible’, it has suffered a recent retrospective downgrading from ‘modern classic’ to ‘decent effort’. Now’s the time,…
Leicester rock favourites Kasabian are reportedly set to be announced as a headliner for this years Glastonbury festival, as bookies William Hill have suspended betting on it. The rumours about Kasabian headlining go back to a while, but today is the first ‘concrete’ suggestion that they are definitely playing the Worthy Farm festival in June….
The worst-kept secret in the music world was finally confirmed today as a reformed OutKast were announced as the first headliner of this years Coachella. Joining Big Boi and Andre 3000 as headliners are Muse and Arcade Fire in an amazing looking line-up that also includes (takes deep breath): Queens Of The Stone Age, Beck,…
Finally – after lots of rumours and ‘are they aren’t they‘ speculation – Arcade Fire have confirmed they will be headlining Glastonbury 2014. The Canadian band, who released one of the albums of the year in Reflektor, confirmed their slot at Glastonbury by releasing their updated tour itinerary for 2014 – which has them down…
Arcade Fire have today announced a huge gig at Dublin’s Marlay Park for 29 June. The date happens to fall on the Sunday of next years Glastonbury, which has inevitably led to speculation that Arcade Fire won’t be playing at Worthy Farm in 2014. I suppose there’s wriggle room for them to headline the Friday…
Tickets for Arcade Fire’s massive show at Earls Court on Friday 6 June go on sale tomorrow (Friday 29 November). If the demand for tickets for their recent UK tour is anything to go by, tomorrow morning is going to see a big rush for tickets – so to give you the best chance possible…
Arcade Fire aren’t doing anything by halves as they continue to push new album Reflektor down our throats, and have today revealed another video for album track ‘Afterlife’. To be fair though, the new video is pretty impressive. Directed by Emily Kai Bock it’s a stylish and powerful exploration of people’s dreams and inner psyche….
After a pretty mental promo campaign for new album Reflektor, it was good to hear Arcade Fire get down to some more traditional promotion last night with an appearance on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show. During the session they played new album tracks ‘Reflektor’, ‘Afterlife’ and ‘Normal Person’. Win Butler also dropped a major hint…
