We All Want Someone To Shout For — Forgot to post this earlier. Earlier today Amazon put up 30 second previews of every song on Arcade Fire’s upcoming new album The Suburbs. They got taken down but Music, Birds and Cereal saved the day and has all the clips on a soundcloud embed. He... more info

Nialler9 — Are they down yet?? At least there’s something short and sweet after the jump for you… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "If 2007's Neon Bible was supposed to be Arcade Fire's difficult second album, it didn't show. Top marks from a cavalcade of critical tomes saw the Montreal septet's sequel to their breakthrough debut long-player of 2004, Funeral, received with just.... more info

Stereogum — Someone from Seattle’s 107.7 put up 30 second samples of all 16 tracks from The Suburbs. They’re pretty low-quality and randomly selected 30-second chunks it seems like, but if you can’t wait until August to hear the album, have a listen/spoil ... more info

Gigwise — You can watch it live online... more info

NME — Canadian group release short video featuring new song 'Rococo' to promote the gig more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Arcade Fire have shared with us a teaser/trailer leading up to their legendary performance at MSG (the August 5th one). In the video they give us a preview of “Rococo”, a song from The Suburbs. The trailer announces that youtube will be streaming... more info

The Culture Of Me — Always puzzle-happy Canadian pop group Arcade Fire just posted this excellent new video of marionette puppets and fireworks, all to announce that their sold out show in New York City (at Madison Square Garden with an interesting set of openers) will ... more info

Stereogum — In addition to showcasing a bit of The Suburbs we’ve yet to visit, this short clip of Win and Regine as puppety oddballs reveals that the band’s second MSG headline concert (8/5) will be streamed live on YouTube. It seems like only six years ago... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Thanks to GvsB for the scoop. Arcade Fire have just unveiled this video trailer of sorts for their upcoming Madison Square Garden show. The video is apparently directed by a well-known director who has yet to be named (my guess is for Spike Jonze).... more info