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  'Pop-Up Video' Takes a Spin Through Arcade Fire's 'Suburbs'

  August 10, 2012 – Since someone had the good sensibility to revive VH1's ever-illuminating Pop-Up Video, without which we might not know exact what role NYC downtown artist Jean-Michel Basquiat plays in Blondie's "Rapture" clip, the series has been focusing on some more modern videos by artists like Rilo Kiley and Vampire Weekend. …
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  Arcade Fire Signed to Merge Records for the Food

  June 21, 2012 – As a company, we here at SPIN are particularly fond of music. As human beings, we are also particularly fond of food. When those two worlds interact, we are all over that business. Which is why we are kind of in love the recently launched podcast iteration of Food is the New Rock, the music-meets-munchies blog of Zach Brooks. …
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  Dissecting Mick Jagger's All-Star 'SNL' Rockathon, 'Lazy Sunday 2'

  May 21, 2012 – It's only rock'n'roll, but it had a big moment this weekend on Saturday Night Live. Mick Jagger hosted and, as you've probably heard by now, he gave musical performances backed by Foo Fighters and Arcade Fire. …
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  Arcade Fire Drop Dystopian 'Hunger Games' Anthem 'Horn of Plenty'

  March 26, 2012 – "Anthemic" is a made-up word that almost every music critic has probably used at least once. It's a phrase that's especially appropriate to the Arcade Fire, whose records have a particular orchestral grandeur and chest-stirring earnestness that can make them feel like national anthems for the stalwart independent underground: not Montreal, not Williamsburg, but some vague, free-floating confederation of anti-corporate humanists. …
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  Watch Arcade Fire Perform at University of Texas Haiti Lecture

  March 20, 2012 – Arcade Fire, if you hadn't heard (hint: if you read SPIN, you did), lectured at the University of Texas at Austin yesterday to raise awareness about the socioeconomic crises that persist in post-earthquake Haiti. …
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  Watch Bruce Springsteen Win SXSW with Arcade Fire and Tom Morello

  March 16, 2012 – After sexagenarian legend Bruce Springsteen delivered his SXSW keynote speech, he took over the Moody Theatre in Austin to perform to a relatively tiny crowd of 3,000 festgoers. …
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  Hear Arcade Fire's Record Store Day 'Suburbs' Remixes

  March 5, 2012 – Sometimes sprawl can be a good thing. Arcade Fire will put out a limited-edition Record Store Day 12" featuring extended remixes of a couple of tracks from The Suburbs, Merge Records has announced (via Pitchfork). Although Record Store Day is April 21 this year, the band's remixes of "Sprawl II" and "Ready to Start" with producer Damian Taylor can be heard online below. …
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  Arcade Fire Become College Lecturers, Drop 'Hunger Games' Track

  March 2, 2012 – Arcade Fire fans (that includes you, Rosie O'Donnell!) might want stick around in Austin after SXSW this year. The Grammy-winning band — well, four of them at least, including Win Butler, Régin Chassagne, Will Butler, and Marika Anthony-Shaw — will be lecturing at the University of Texas at Austin March 19. …
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  POTUS Playlist: Barack Obama Drops a Sweet Spotify Mix

  February 9, 2012 – It's not like we're very surprised, but President Obama, who has already gone down in history as the first candidate to have waged a truly effective social media-based presidential campaign, is at it again: Barack has dropped a 27-track "Campaign Playlist" via Spotify and his Facebook page (via the Washington Post). …
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  Spend an Hour With Arcade Fire's Full 'Austin City Limits' Set

  January 16, 2012 – Last week, we saw a preview clip of Arcade Fire playing The Suburbs' "We Used to Wait" on PBS' long-running Austin City Limits. The time for waiting is over, because the full episode aired on Saturday, and you can watch it below. …
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