Let’s take a moment to review the “highlights” of the exhausting album cycle for Arcade Fire’s fifth LP, Everything Now — there have been fidget spinners, fake album reviews, facetious Kendall Jenner ...

The epic poems of William Butler Yeats are rarely invoked by rock musicians as an artistic template, but Arcade Fire’s William Pierce Butler is a happy exception. “Rock ‘n’ roll is still extremely ...

Watching the webcast from MSG was one thing, but watching Arcade Fire from the balcony of the famed Ryman Auditorium was something else entirely. It was almost like peering into an Arcade Fire diorama ...

Canadian band Arcade Fire are no strangers to singing about the pains of growing up—their first album, Funeral, featured the aching “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” and their indie anthem “Wake Up” was ...

On June 7, 2004, a typical Monday night, Arcade Fire played a set at The Cave. As the story goes in Our Noise, John Cook’s written history of Merge Records, the hastily booked gig at Chapel Hill’s ...

Though we’re only halfway through the ’10s, the ’00s can occasionally seem like a long time ago. (Remember when barely anyone had cell phones? Jesus.) Still, five years is enough time to get some ...