Nialler9 — You may remember Monica Birkenes’ Arcade Fire cover last year, ‘Runaway’ is the Norwegian’s first bit of new music since and it’s a slice of shadowy electro-pop. The vid was directed by Zach Shields. [ Twitter | Soundcloud | Facebook … Re... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Alejandro Escovedo at Clearwater 2009 (more by Chris La Putt) Alejandro Escovedo, who just guested with Bruce Springsteen at SXSW along with Arcade Fire and others for a performance of "This Land Is Your Land," is sticking around in his... more info

Perez Hilton — First, it takes over the box office, now Hunger Games is taking over the charts! The soundtrack to the flick that made $214 BAJILLION million this weekend debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart. Boosted by artists like Taylor Swift, the Civil Wars, Arc... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Bright Moments - "Travelers" (MP3) Bright Moments Bright Moments is the moniker of Brooklyn, multi-instrumentalist Kelly Pratt, who has lent his talents to Beirut, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Owen Pallett, and others. According to faceboo... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The musical companion to "The Hunger Games" emerged as the clear leader on this week's pop chart, bolstered by contributions from the likes of Taylor Swift, the Arcade Fire, the Decemberists and Maroon 5, among many others. The disc, "The Hunger Game... more info

Topix — Win Butler of Arcade Fire holds up the Grammy for Album of the Year for The Suburbs at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. more info

Guardian Music — The indie group join Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes among the musical stars of the director's forthcoming thrillerFilm director Terrence Malick is famed for the status of the stars who queue up to appear in his films. And now, to a list of Malick stars ... more info

Chorus.fm — *Soulwax (http://www.2manydjs.com) *has released a remix of *Arcade Fire* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/arcadefire)'s track "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)". Check it out in the replies. more info

Guardian Music — New double LP, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, features Ke$ha, Chris Martin, Nick Cave and more – and each individual album will be uniqueThe Flaming Lips are going big for Record Store Day, releasing an album of team-ups that includes appearanc... more info

Stereogum — Yesterday, Arcade Fire gave a lecture entitled “Hope, Haiti & Service” detailing the group’s charitable aspirations in Haiti through Partners In Health. After the lecture, the attending band members — Win and Will Butler as well as Regine Cha... more info