“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 ...

The Arcade Fire’s Funeral was a crucial record for a variety of reasons. On a circumstantial level — in the same way OK Computer redeemed guitar music in a decade when it seemed at risk of becoming ...

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 ...

After the groundbreaking release of "Funeral" in 2004, Arcade Fire set themselves up for a sophomore slump. Shortly after it hit the market, "Funeral" topped every music snob's album of the year ...

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 ...

So Arcade Fire bought an old church outside Montreal and converted it into a studio, then spent much of 2006 melding haunting, religion-inspired lyrics with noises joyful enough to ward off any demons ...

Sincere and developed artistic content in popular music remains a fringe phenomenon in both mainstream and ‘underground’ or independent music. At times it bursts through, eliciting a large public ...

AFTER sleeping through the winter, music wakes up this week with “Neon Bible” – a terrific slow-burn sophomore disc from Montreal’s Arcade Fire. Unlike their 2004 debut, “Funeral,” this record doesn’t ...