Stereogum — A miserable experience recording an album doesn’t always equal a miserable album. So often the opposite happens: Big Star, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and Fleetwood Mac all made brilliant albums under internal or external stress. So the early clues into... more info

ContactMusic — Grammy Award-winning Canadian rockers Arcade Fire are planning a trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti to jam with local musicians for an upcoming Dvd release. The group has teamed up with British photographer Leah Gordon, who published a book of pictu... more info

NME — Band will collaborate with local musicians in the country more info

Guardian Music — Canadian band to film series of concerts during their first trip to Haiti for DVD release later this yearArcade Fire are on their way to Haiti, where they plan to perform – and film – a series of concerts with local musicians. The Canadian band p... more info

Pop Candy — Happy Tuesday, you guys! I wish I had a fun story to tell about my evening, but the truth is I'm currently obsessed with Pamela Des Barres' 1987 ... more info

Stereogum — You got a taste of Spike Jonze’s Scenes From The Suburbs in the video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs.” As we reported before you could affix Grammy Winners to the band’s name, Scenes is a short film centering on “friends growing apart” ... more info

NME — Teaser for forthcoming short film available to watch now more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — The NME verdict on the singles released in the UK today, featuring Arcade Fire, Guillemots and Patrick Wolf. [...] Read more! more info

Guardian Music — Two Bowie biographies shed new light on the career of pop's greatest chameleon, but the man himself remains elusiveIn 1971, David Bowie's bullish new manager, Tony Defries, walked into the office of RCA in New York for a meeting with the heads of a r... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - The Chemical Brothers and Interpol will also be at the Irish festival... more info