Pop Candy — Friday's headlines also include Arcade Fire and '22 Jump Street.' more info

Stereogum — It would appear that Arcade Fire’s embrace of disco and funk has already gone way beyond their Reflektor album. At a show in Houston last night, the band covered Blondie’s beyond-classic disco jam “Heart Of Glass,” with Régine Chassagne hand... more info

Mercury News, California — Pharrell, Lorde, Arcade Fire, Beck and other acclaimed acts will perform at the festival, which will be streamed live on YouTube. more info

NME — The band played their version of the 1978 disco track in Houston, Texas more info

Stereogum — Canadian post-punk greats the Constantines — a favorite of mine and of Arcade Fire’s — recently announced a reunion. But frontman Bry Webb is also readying a solo album called Free Will, and today we have a preview in the form of “Receive Me.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — to quote Jesse Pinkman, "It's a whole lot of cheddar" Coachella starts this weekend (April 11 - 13) and amongst the sold-out throngs are a few famous people too. Some because they party while seeing Outkast, Arcade Fire and/or Muse, and... more info

NME — The frontman says that Kurt Cobain's band helped 'misfit kids' more info

Stereogum — Kurt Cobain and Nirvana made a lasting impact on the landscape of music, and that they made the same type of impact on their fans. And some of those fans went on to become musicians in their own right. Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler was one of those... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — England's Glastonbury Festival is pretty much the forefather to all crazy worldwide "20,000 people standing in a field" festivals we have today. The 2014 edition goes down June 27 - 29 in Pilton, UK and the lineup was just... more info

Stereogum — England’s Glastonbury Festival, the oldest and arguably the most important of the world’s annual gigantic music festivals, just announced its lineup for this year’s show, which goes down 6/27-29. The festival always has one overall headliner, a... more info