Stereogum — Rain cut this show a little early, but Arcade Fire made up for it by sticking around, posing for photos, signing things: A lucky 300 folks crammed into the Big Sur space, on Will Butler’s birthday, for what photographer Graeme Flegenheimer describe... more info

All About Jazz — In early August, Arcade Fire was profiled in The New Yorker by Sasha Frere-Jones. Some argued that the piece was against major labels, because Arcade Fire existed mostly outside their walls.A Others though that it dispelled the myth of the DIY artis... more info

Mercury News, California — Arcade Fire is on a quest to become North America's most important band.Win Butler, the Montreal group's vocalist and resident visionary, would probably never outline Arcade Fire's mission in that fashion. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Peter Hughes talks to Move about the evolution of the Mountain Goats. Granta names the best young Spanish-language novelists. On sale for $3.99 at Amazon MP3: The Arcade Fire's 10-track Funeral album. The Boston Globe profiles Gayngs. Falling somewhe... more info

Undercover, Australia — Canadian indie pop icon Owen Pallett is heading to Australia in January in support of his latest record ‘Heartland’. more info

Guardian Music — Shape-note singing was America's first music craze, and 150 years on, it's still going. Alfred Hickling tries itIn a disused chapel in Gateshead, the chairs have been set out for an unusual form of service. Members of the congregation sit on four sid... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — If they chose to cover this song the other night at Terminal 5 because they knew it would get blogged about, good idea (though maybe the idea was just related to the name of their new album). Spike Lee-directed... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — John Legend and The Roots put together a cover album titled Wake Up. Their cover of Arcade Fire didn’t end up making the album, but it didn’t stop them from covering it live at Terminal 5 last week. Spike Lee directed the clip and the rest of the... more info

Stereogum — Arcade Fire were the stars of the Terry Gilliam-directed first installment of American Express, VEVO, and YouTube’s five-part UNSTAGED series. They show up in this new edition, too, via John Legend & The Roots’ cover of “Wake Up.” It took pla... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — My live blogging of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs got a good reaction, so I figured I’d give it another go with another big album leak. I was watching the Yankees pretty pathetic display against the Red Sox today when my buddy Brent from One Thirty B... more info