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Arcade Fire
Biography
Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, consisting of husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, and Sarah Neufeld. The band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral. Arcade Fire has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year (they hold the distinction of being the only musical group to have won their first and only Grammy in that category), the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album for their third studio album, The Suburbs, released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success. In earlier years they won the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year for their second studio album, Neon Bible. They also received nominations for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for all three of their studio albums. The band's work has also been twice named as a short list nominee for the Polaris Music Prize in 2007 for Neon Bible and in 2011 for The Suburbs, winning the award for The Suburbs. The band plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin, and hurdy-gurdy, and take most of these instruments on tour; the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows.
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Discography
- Funeral, 2005
- Miroir noir, 2009
- The Suburbs, 2010
- 2005-03-09: The White Session
- Neon Bible, 2007
- 2005-07-24: Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, IL, USA
- 2007-01-20: St. Michael's Church, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2010-08-28: Reading Festival, Reading, UK
- 2005-03-08: Kings College, London, UK
- 2005-05-20: Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
- 2007-05-15: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 2005-10-22: Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2007-05-16: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 2005-05-08: Bristol Academy, Bristol, UK
- 2008-01-23: Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
- 2007-11-02: Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium
- 2007-06-22: Other Stage, Glastonbury Festival, UK
- 2004-10-14: KEXP, Museum of TV and Radio, New York City, NY, USA
- 2008-02-11: Shinkiba Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007-06-27: Radcliffe and Maconie Broadcast:: BBC Maida Vale
- 2005-01-21: Emo's, Austin, TX, USA
- 2005-10-30: Vegoose 2005, Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV, USA
- 2005-01-17: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- 2007-07-18: Nuits de Fourvière, Lyon, France
- 2010-08-05: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA
- 2005-05-01: The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio, CA, USA
- 2005-01-17: The Casbah, San Diego, CA, USA
- 2004-11-12: TT Bears, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2011-06-30: Hyde Park, London, UK
- 2005-09-29: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- B-Sides & Rarities
- 2004-12-12: Commodore Ballroom, Commodore, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Black Session, 2005
- 2005-01-31: Theater of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Comments
Better than that depressing man garramundi, barramundy or whatever his name is that I have had the misfortune to hear on this station because they "have to play him"
The Suburbs
Artist Arcade Fire
Album The Suburbs
Label EMI
Year 2010
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Artist Arcade Fire
Album The Suburbs
Label EMI
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horrible droning wailing with incessant click-track tom-tom beat - i think my cat could've done a midi better than this on cakewalk...
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