Brooklyn Vegan — I (Bill) stopped reading Q around 2003 but here's their Best of 2010 list, topped by The Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. (NME's #2 of the year.) Check out the whole list below.... more info

NME — He beats Arcade Fire, Beach House, Joanna Newsom and Gorillaz to title more info

NME — Win Butler and co set for massive shows more info

Gigwise — They're more into the music... more info

Guardian Music — Hammersmith Apollo, London In the middle of the first tuition-fees protest in London, Sky News's wretched Kay Burley found herself improbably talking about drum'n'bass, or as she insisted on referring to it, "the drum and the bass". An enterprising s... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian profiles the Arcade Fire. In case you have not noticed, Arcade Fire – a multi-instrumental, mixed gender, seven-piece indie-rock group from the very un-rock'n'roll city of Montreal, Canada – are what is most cool about rock right now... more info

Guardian Music — Plan B set a benchmark 'in terms of pop artists pushing themselves', while Cee Lo Green provided 'darkness and humour'. Here, Laura Marling, Mark Ronson, Brian Eno and other star acts pick their favourite sounds of 2010Laura MarlingEverything from th... more info

Guardian Music — They don't buy into the rock'n'roll lifestyle, their songs deal with big ideas, and their live shows – which now take place inside huge arenas – favour exuberance over irony and aloofness. And yet Arcade Fire, who emerged from Montreal's indie sc... more info

Guardian Music — Arcade Fire, LondonAlthough this was the year they achieved the benchmarks of the truly big – two nights at Madison Square Garden, for example – 2010 was also the year in which Arcade Fire tried to keep things smaller. The Suburbs, the band's thi... more info

I Like Music — The new single, The Suburbs, will be released digitally on December 20th 2010, 2010 via Sonovox. Watch the Spike Jones-directed video more info