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After All, It’s The Holidays

By matthew | Published December 24, 2010

It’s December. It’s the Holidays. It’s that time when listening to Christmas music all day, for weeks on end, is, actually, alright. Interested in a new (well, old, but redone!) Christmas song? How about a new, and exceptionally well crafted Christmas song? Sufjan Stevens, Richard Parry from Arcade Fire, Aaron and Bryce Dessener from the National, have created two wonderful little songs for this time of year.

Check ‘em out!

“Silent Night” and “Barcarola”

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Arcade Fire blazes a trail this summer: The Suburbs tour dates announced!

By Shannon | Published June 2, 2010

Setting fire to The Burbs...

I just read over at Baeble Music that Arcade Fire has officially released a list of summer tour dates. This international tour is their first since 2007. Track previews, snippets and full leaked songs off of the August 3rd 2010 release The Suburbs have been showing up on Hype Machine for a few weeks now, building enthusiasm for this glorious return. The single New York City stop on this tour will be a day after the album’s release at Madison Square Garden. Preview tracks off of The Suburbs in a completely legitimate fashion here.

Arcade Fire Tour Dates

6/7 Sherbrooke ONT – Theater Granada
6/8 Sherbrooke ONT – Theater Granada
6/30 Rattvik, Sweden – Dalhalla
7/2 Tromy, Norway – Hove Festival
7/4 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
7/9 County Kildare, Ireland – Oxegen Festival
7/12 Quebec, Canada – Quebec City Summer Festival
7/13 Ottawa, Canada – Ottawa Bluesfest
7/31 Montreal – Osheaga
8/1 Boston – Bank of America Pavillion
8/2 Philadelphia – Mann Centre for the Performing arts
8/4 New York – Madison Square Garden
8/6 Washington DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/8 Chicago – Lollapalooza
8/9 Nashville – Ryman Auditorium
8/11 Atlanta – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/14 Toronto – Olympic Island
8/27 Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
8/27 Reading, UK – Reading Festival
8/29 Saint Cloud, France – Rock En Seine
9/2 Bologna, Italy – I-Day Festival

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Preview: Drink Up Buttercup @ Piano’s on 3/12

By Shannon | Published March 9, 2010

Drink Up Buttercup, then sweat it out.

Drink Up Buttercup is playing Piano’s this Friday, and I think that’s pretty exciting. I miss the kind of music you can put on your headphones and sweat out a cup of coffee to. It reminds me of being in college, walking no less than top speed to campus with 20lbs of textbooks on my back, driven by Hamilton Leithauser’s (The Walkmen) potency and the firm belief that life was going to be effing amazing. You know? Arcade Fire’s Funeral came out that year too, and the ethereal energy buzz was so fresh.

Now, over five years later, this buzz comes back full force whilst listening to Drink Up  Buttercup. But there’s something a little more raw and less emotional about them. Mark of the  times, perhaps. Born and Thrown on a Hook, it turns out, is the perfect soundtrack to where  this year is going. The angst is still palpable, but look at us– we’re celebrating it! We’re buying  cheap beer gladly, lighting bonfires in trash barrels, dancing around them like madmen. Ok, maybe not. But there’s that sense of irreverence and levity, and it’s in the sound  of this album. Check it out. Better than that, traipse over to Piano’s this Friday and get yourself  some sonic temerity courtesy of Drink Up Buttercup.

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