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
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
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