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  Arcade Fire: Interactive Video for 'The Suburbs'

  August 30, 2010 – The titular Suburbs of Arcade Fire's latest album are purposefully ambiguous in location, but their just-released, interactive, web-based "video" for "We Used to Wait" allows fans to watch in awe as their own childhood address becomes part of the action. On a website called The Wilderness Downtown, its title cribbed from the song's lyrics, users are prompted to enter the address of "the home where you grew up," and press enter. …
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  Arcade Fire Plot More North American Shows

  August 13, 2010 – Now that they've completed a short U.S. tour, plotted around the release of their No. 1 album, The Suburbs, Arcade Fire have announced a slew of new North American tour dates, kicking off Sept. 22 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Scroll down for the full itinerary. The Suburbs arrived in stores August 3, and just topped Billboard's album chart during its first week of release. …
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  Arcade Fire Have America's No. 1 Album!

  August 11, 2010 – Arcade Fire have taken The Suburbs to the top of the charts: The Montreal band's stellar third album debuts at No. 1 this week, with 156,000 copies sold. It's Arcade Fire's first No. 1 album, having bowed at No. …
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  Arcade Fire, 'The Suburbs' (Merge)

  August 11, 2010 – On an album full of moments when hope turns haunting, the ghosts hang heaviest on the spellbinding "Suburban War," which comes roughly halfway through Arcade Fire's blazingly intense third album. Against solemn ringing guitar, Win Butler sings about a man remembering an old friend. Once, the two grew their hair long and vowed to escape, past the fences and pavement, to a place where they could battle on behalf of what was pure. …
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  Arcade Fire Close Lollapalooza with Grace

  August 9, 2010 – Arcade Fire is not so much a band these days as a weather pattern. …
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  WATCH: Arcade Fire Live at Madison Square Garden

  August 6, 2010 – Thursday night in Manhattan, newly minted arena-rocking heroes Arcade Fire proved themselves up to the task of headlining Madison Square Garden for the second time in two nights. …
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  Arcade Fire Make Themselves at Home in the Garden

  August 5, 2010 – For a moment there, it looked like Win Butler was just reciting from the Cheesy Arena Stage Banter Handbook (foreword by Paul Stanley). "This is my favorite part of the Garden, right here," he said, grinning devilishly as he towered over and genuflected towards the fans clamoring at his feet. Why's that, Win? …
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  New Albums from Arcade Fire, Wavves, & 5 more!

  August 3, 2010 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Arcade Fire, The SuburbsIn a hopeless, heartless world, rock's righteous collective rides in to save our souls (again!)Read Review >> Wavves, King of the BeachSo-bored surf punk worships at altar of Billie Joe.Read Review >> Mt. St. …
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  LISTEN: Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs'

  August 2, 2010 – Arcade Fire week is in full swing, here in North America: The Canadian band kicked off a 10-date tour in Montreal over the weekend, and now their entire album, The Suburbs (out August 3), is streaming on NPR. Hear it below. The record is another triumph for the band, whose last release, Neon Bible, landed at No. 2 on SPIN's Best Albums of 2007 list, and whose debut, Funeral, was No. …
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  Arcade Fire Headline Montreal Fest with True Passion

  August 2, 2010 – Arcade Fire ringleader Win Butler spends much of his band's latest album, The Suburbs(out Tuesday), revisiting his past growing up in suburban Houston, but Saturday night the songwriter made it clear where his current spiritual and actual home is: Montreal. Butler and his Quebec-based band dazzled a hometown crowd of 20,000-plus as co-headliners of Montreal's two-day-long Osheaga festival, drawing heavily upon new material as well as t …
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