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

We All Want Someone To Shout For — So I haven’t done a live blog of an albums leak since The National’s High Violet leaked. It’s a fun thing to do because it shows you all of my first impressions of these songs. These are only my raw first impressions of the songs remember, so d... 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 — 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

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

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

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

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