Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn's Superhuman Happiness, the project of saxophonist Stuart Bogie (who plays with Arcade Fire, is a member of Antibalas, and more), released Escape Velocity last year and now they're working on a new LP. While we wait for more detail... more info

Consequence of Sound — Tool, Arcade Fire, The Weeknd, and a Halloween weekend in New Orleans. more info

NME — Win Butler was once coached at basketball by Drake more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Islands have taken quite a few forms since their inception after the band’s brainchild Nicholas Thorburn’s prior band The Unicorns broke up. In 2006 they released their charming debut album Return To The Seam. Since then Islands did a small reuni... more info

Stereogum — The fourth edition of the Pop Vs. Jock celebrity basketball game is set to go down later this month in Montreal. Players this time around include Arcade Fire’s Will and Win Butler, the Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture, Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson, ... more info

Stereogum — Before Arcade Fire were, you know, Arcade Fire, they were just another band (ahem, a Band To Watch, I mean). Recently, footage has surfaced via Reddit of an early iteration of the group featuring Win Butler and Régine Chassagne and a bunch of member... more info

Consequence of Sound — "Death Cab for Frontman", "Crying Cure", "Gunnin' for Rose" also featured in new sticker set. more info

Stereogum — Summer may be on its way out the door, but Topps has decided to celebrate the waning music festival season with a whole mess of limited edition Garbage Pail Kids sticker carders. The limited edition American As Apple Pie: Best Of The Fest series, onl... more info

Stereogum — Reggae musician and famed producer Dennis Bovell has remixed Arcade Fire once before — he did a version of “Flashbulb Eyes featuring his frequent collaborator Linton Kwesi Johnson — and he just debuted another remix he made for the band. While ... more info

Stereogum — Recently during downtime in their sets, the Last Shadow Puppets have been coming up with improvised songs about various bands. They’ve already tackled Arcade Fire and Tame Impala, and at their show at Lowlands Festival over the weekend, they perfor... more info