I suspect few records released in 2007 are going to provoke as much argument as this second Arcade Fire album, "Neon Bible". A week before the official release date, you can already feel it coming, as ...
And so this week comes the release of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible (Merge). There are certain things, in certain circles, that one had better talk around—things to gesture at, perhaps, or drop in archly ...
“If you've ever been in a boat when the weather is bad… all of sudden you feel out of control,” frontman and primary songwriter Win Butler told Pitchfork. “Those are the few times when I’m really ...
The Arcade Fire takes it sound to new and exciting places on its slavishly anticipated new album, "Neon Bible," which, as previously reported, is due March 6 via Merge. The 11-track set was primarily… ...
As part of Merge’s sold-out “Born Under a Good Sign” vinyl subscription series, A Giant Dog have covered Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible in its entirety. It’ll be available to stream at midnight tonight and ...
Arcade Fire's 'Neon Bible': How Bruce Springsteen and George W. Bush influenced their second album. By Kenneth Partridge Back in the mid-‘00s, when guitars were the indie weapon of choice, Arcade Fire ...
The British director Terence Davies, whose films connect style to emotion both exquisitely and inventively, is also one of the great cinematic autobiographers. His third feature, “The Neon Bible,” ...
The key to all that is right, weird and nobly flawed about Arcade Fire‘s second album is in the next-to-last song, “No Cars Go.” Written by the Montrealband’s founding singers, Win Butler and his wife ...
“We know a place where no planes go / We know a place where no ships go / No cars go, no cars go… Us kids know / No cars go”—from “No Cars Go” It must be hard, even futile, for any indie-rock band to ...
In 2005, Time Magazine put Arcade Fire on its cover, beneath the banner headline: "Canada's Most Intriguing Rock Band". It's tempting to call that the most underwhelming use of a superlative since ...