USA Today Music — Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Stereogum — Funeral was about family, and Neon Bible was about institutions. The Suburbs on first listen, feels like adolescence, the time when you’re trapped between leaving one and joining the other. Will and Winn Butler told NPR that the record would be abo... more info

Stereogum — The same station blog that brought you 30-second samples from Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs just put up samples of Daft Punk’s upcoming Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Have a listen to six of the tracks here. (via P4K) more info

Guardian Music — As announcements go, this year's Mercury prize nominations didn't exactly set my world on fire (nor that of Alexis Petridis, who blogged on the announcement). Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Corinne Bailey Rae, I Am Kloot ... I guess the judges liked ... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — NEW YORK: Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offREM Fall On Me I somehow overlooked 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant at the time, but now I can't stop playing it. This is one of the more direct tracks – it wouldn't have been o... more info

Mercury News, California — NEW YORK — Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Guardian Music — Canada's finest have produced a hymn to the middle-class motherland, suffused with a Springsteen-esque need to escapePop has always loved a visit to the suburbs, whether in the sleazy undertow of Suede's eponymous debut album or the high-street hellr... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Arcade Fire's second show at Madison Square Garden, set for August 5th, will be streaming live on YouTube. The teaser video that says as much (that they put on Vimeo), with a clip of new song "Rococo," is posted... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Arcade Fire's third album comes out on Monday (August 2). Here's our track-by-track guide, plus explanatory notes from the band themselves The Suburbs Opening with rolling bar-room piano, the title track is gentle, jaunty and warm with a lolloping... more info