So this is it? This is what we've been waiting three years for? In a rather lackadaisical and unexciting move compared to the viral campaign that brought us Noreen Bauble and 1-866-NEON-BIBLE, Arcade Fire announced their new album The Suburbs via a handwritten note from "Arkady Fireovitch." One day prior they unveiled two new songs, "The Suburbs" and "Month of May," on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show (you can stream those here). It would seem that the blogosphere / twitterverse would have blown up ...
Pitchfork — Finally! Arcade Fire have announced on their website that their third album, The Suburbs, will be released August 2 in the UK/Europe and August 3 in the U.S. via Merge... more info
I Guess I'm Floating — So this is it? This is what we've been waiting three years for? In a rather lackadaisical and unexciting move compared to the viral campaign that brought us Noreen Baub... more info