MissingPerson's Official Lovely Non-Threatening Arcade Fire Joy Parade.

[captncrzy]

Makes sense. They wanted him to produce the Suburbs but he was busy with LCD.

[Miroir Noir]

Arcade Fire tube:

BREAKING! Jeremy Gara (Arcade Fire's drummer) said over the weekend the new Arcade Fire album coming out "possibly this year". Wow!

[captncrzy]

YEAH

[suprefan]

Oh boy, here we go again.

[nathanfairchild]

NEW SONG

[IceyHotshot]

I got bored and skipped in roughly 20 second intervals until the end of the song, sure enough each time it stated playing he was either singing "crucified" or "again"

[Miroir Noir]

Arcade Fire tube, again:

"We have no planned [Arcade Fire] releases until the end of next year or the start of the following year." Meaning of course the new Arcade Fire album will come out at the earliest come the end of 2013 or start of 2014. Much more in line with previous info. Oh and there's no live DVD/Bluray either. Depressing enough update?

I'm guessing the quotation within the quotation may be from Merge, but I'm not sure. I was skeptical of the earlier Jeremy Gara statement, and this certainly would reflect my early thinking that we're looking at a 2014 album cycle.

Edit: Arcade Fire tube sources the quotation from Arcade Fire's manager.

[TallGuyCM]

oh whaaat

Us Kids Know
Arcade Fire - as Les Identiks - played a secret show in Montreal last night for a crowd of 100 very lucky people. To quote Scott Rodger "magic is back in music". :-)

[suprefan]

Cue 10 pages of people thinking theyre going to play Coachella this year and other randomness.

[Miroir Noir]

You can now buy the Church they recorded Neon Bible in.

[ameeps]

You can now buy the Church they recorded Neon Bible in.

Neon Bible and The Suburbs.

If only I had 350,000 lying around.

[Miroir Noir]

The band played a Haiti benefit tonight in Montreal.

Regine is apparently pregnant with Blue Ivy Butler:



Setlist
1) Headlights Look Like Diamonds
2) Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
3) Haiti

[Neighborhood Creep]

Fuck I love them

[PlayaDelWes]

Marika is pregnant as well.

[ameeps]

Aracde Fire babies!!! Yay!
Completely selfish but I hope this doesn't mean they won't tour as much for the new album.

[Miroir Noir]

Before the show on Saturday:

[Miroir Noir]

A few details emerge about the secret Montreal show last December from Besnard Lakes' Jace Lasek:

"The songs they played, to me they seemed like they were going further into a Talking Heads' Fear of Music vibe," Lasek tells Spinner, referencing the Heads' 1979 album.

Lasek, who was also assistant engineer for the show, says the rumors of a strong dance feel are also true.

"You know how Fear of Music has really cool rhythms and recurring pulses in the songs? That's what they were doing more of. They had guys playing congas and there was a lot of dancing go on. It was pretty cool."

[PlayaDelWes]

Assuming the new album is released 8-12 months from now, is 2015 too early for a return to the headlining spot? And is 2014 ridiculously too early? Newborns or toddlers???

[Miroir Noir]

My (optimistic) guess is that we will get the album this fall, but I have no idea how they'll do the tour thing. I think you're right that the combination of childbirth and having headlined everything under the sun last time out suggest that 2014 is probably too early.

[PlayaDelWes]

My (optimistic) guess is that we will get the album this fall, but I have no idea how they'll do the tour thing. I think you're right that the combination of childbirth and having headlined everything under the sun last time out suggest that 2014 is probably too early.

That’s what I was thinking. It took 8 months and a Grammy to lay the foundation for 2011’s slot that relied heavily on the Suburbs. If the new album is released next winter, it will need to marinate past April to resonate with a big enough fan base wanting to see more than just a rehash of 2011 with some ‘new stuff’. The timing bodes well for summer 2014 festivals, but not Coachella.

I wouldn’t mind an Arcade Fire curated min-fest in the Fall of 2014 on the Polo Fields (AF, Beirut, the National, James Murphy...)

[menikmati]

I already have them penciled in for 2015.

[Miroir Noir]

What I will be interested to see next time out is how they handle the Funeral material. These will probably be the first Arcade Fire shows any of us have seen where there won't be time for them to play all of "Tunnels," "Laika," "Power Out," "Wake Up," "Haiti," and "Rebellion" if they're going to play seven or eight new songs and still hit highlights from Neon Bible and The Suburbs.

This is assuming, of course, that they keep their sets to 1:40 or so of heightened energy.

[nathanfairchild]

sounds like they need to take a note from the cure and just play for 4 hours.

[captncrzy]

Grammy had nothign to do with their headlining slot, considering the lineup came out a month before the Grammy's.

[IceyHotshot]

That blurb about the new album is very exciting.

[PlayaDelWes]

Grammy had nothign to do with their headlining slot, considering the lineup came out a month before the Grammy's.

It did have a lot do with incremental familiarity with The Suburbs for many in the crowd by the time they played.

[Miroir Noir]

sounds like they need to take a note from the cure and just play for 4 hours.

I'm not sure that would work for them, or at least for them as their live performances have been up to this point.

Though if they want to attempt it, this may be a better touchstone for them than the Cure:



I would love nothing more than for them to figure out how to do this.

[captncrzy]

It did have a lot do with incremental familiarity with The Suburbs for many in the crowd by the time they played.

Don't think so, considering they were booked a year in advance to headline.

[Miroir Noir]

And hopefully Gemma returns to these parts before the next album. She'll do a much better job of Suprecurating this thread than me or anyone else could.

[PlayaDelWes]

Don't think so, considering they were booked a year in advance to headline.

Sorry to confuse. Jen, you are refuting a point I'm too dumb to make. I wasn’t referring to locking them up as headliner. Come on, I know my timelines.

Instead of “…the foundation for 2011’s slot…” maybe, I should have specified “…the acclaim of 2011’s slot…” referring to the positive reception of a set where nearly half the songs were from their new album. The Suburbs coming out eight months prior gave casual fans longer opportunity to become familiar with it. The Grammy point was only incremental to that, meaning I’m pretty sure the Grammys (and other accolades) boosted popularity as well and thus even more fans bought and listened to The Suburbs leading into April.

Thus, a longer gap between release date and headline date = better show for more people.

What I will be interested to see next time out is how they handle the Funeral material. These will probably be the first Arcade Fire shows any of us have seen where there won't be time for them to play all of "Tunnels," "Laika," "Power Out," "Wake Up," "Haiti," and "Rebellion" if they're going to play seven or eight new songs and still hit highlights from Neon Bible and The Suburbs.

This is assuming, of course, that they keep their sets to 1:40 or so of heightened energy.

And yes Mitch, I'm concerned / interested in this as well. It just means we need to $ave up.