Idolator — Arcade Fire bump Avenged Sevenfold from the #1 position on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart this week with The Suburbs. The Montreal band’s third album sold 156,000 copies in its first week, just besting the 152,000 Eminem’s Recovery (#2 for a ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Josh Darr "With Soundgarden grinding out giant slabs of sludgy metal on one end of Grant Park in Chicago, Arcade Fire closed out Lollapalooza with an epic batch of songs from their three critically-acclaimed albums. While they didn't... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — As first reported last night by indie rockers Spoon, the Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" has debuted at No. 1 atop Billboard's charts. In its first week of release, the latest from the Canadian orchestral pop outfit sold 156,000 copies in... more info

VH1 News — The Arcade Fire's The Suburbs debuts at #1 on next week's Billboard albums chart. more info

MTV.com News — Indie band tops Eminem and last week's #1, Avenged Sevenfold.By James Montgomery The Arcade Fire's Win Butler Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images It's been an oddly major year for indie artists. Back in January, Vampire Weekend made histor... more info

Stereogum — On the heels of owning Madison Square Garden and then a two-mile strip of Chicago called Lolla, Arcade Fire’s world-beating two-week coronation is complete, or at least, confirmed by Billboard: The Suburbs, that possibly overlong but certainly emph... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Filmmaker Vincent Morisset talks to Creative Review about the artwork he provided for the digital version of the Arcade Fire's The Suburbs album. At the New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones examines the success of the Arcade Fire's The Suburbs album, and... more info

NME — Plus Eminem ahead of Arcade Fire in albums chart more info

MTV.com News — Their #1 album and Lollapalooza-closing set solidified their position atop the rock heap, in Bigger Than the Sound. By James Montgomery Win Butler of The Arcade Fire performs at Lollapalooza Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images On Wednesday... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The weekly numbers from Nielsen SoundScan aren't given the official unveiling until Wednesday morning, but perhaps Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Merge Records can be forgiven for not being totally hip to music industry embargoes. After all, it's not often the ... more info