ContactMusic — The news today that The Hunger Games will feature a soundtrack including the likes of The Arcade Fire Taylor Swift The Decemberists Kid Cudi and others has merely added credence to the notion that the forthcoming film out on March 23rd looks set to..... more info

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ContactMusic — Arcade Fire have returned sort of by unveiling a new track thatll be on the soundtrack for the forthcoming film Hunger Games The track Abrahams Daughter was unveiled today by Entertainment Weekly although it has since been blocked on copyright ground... more info

Stereogum — The Hunger Games, the new movie based on the ridiculously addictive and brutal young adult fiction book of the same title, is coming out this month. Its soundtrack album, produced by T Bone Burnett, has a pretty all-star list of contributors, and itâ... more info

NME - Radar — They brawl! They get bored! And back home in Canada? They rival Arcade Fire... [...] Read more! more info

ContactMusic — Florence Welch was starstruck and speechless when she met her idol - Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler The Florence and the MAChine singer is a big fan of the cult Canadian rockers and admits she was starry-eyed when she was introduced to them at Londo... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — USC's popular music degree program was showcased to the public Sunday with a six-hour festival featuring 17 acts. USC students get onstage and perform, while others help organize, promote and run the festival. Two students will be heard on the forth... more info

Guardian Music — Music bloggers tell us about their labours of loveWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm a man named Sean and I write for Said the Gramophone. (NB Sean is also our north American news correspondent)Where are you based?I live in Montreal, Canada.... more info

Stereogum — Kelly Pratt is a multi-instrumentalist who’s worked with a seriously impressive list of artists that includes Arcade Fire, Beirut, St. Vincent, and David Byrne. He also records his own music under the name Bright Moments, and his album Natives is a... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonAfter a couple of seasons exhausting his festival circuit currency, Ian Broudie's reformed Lightning Seeds were last seen playing subdued versions of Three Lions and Pure in seated concert rooms. This didn't suit Broudie... more info