Nov 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Wet Leg got five nominations, including for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album. Other artists we cover to get nominations include Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Wilco, Big Thief, Arctic Monkeys, IDLES, Beck, Spiritualized, The Black Keys, and more. More

Aug 29, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Win Butler, frontman of Arcade Fire, has been accused of sexual misconduct by four people in a Pitchfork story from Saturday. Three women have accused Butler of sexually inappropriate behavior. These incidents took place between 2016 to 2020, when the women were between the ages of 18 and 23, and Butler was between 36 and 39. A fourth person, who is gender-fluid and uses they/them pronouns, has alleged Butler of sexually assaulting them twice in 2015, when they were 21 and Butler was 34. More

Jun 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry and avant-garde composer Susie Ibarra have announced the release of a new album, Heart and Breath: Rhythm and Tone Fields (OFFAIR), which will be out on July 15 via Offair. They have also shared a new track from the album, “Field II: Slow Drift,” along with a video where they speak about the album’s creation. More

May 31, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire) has shared two new singles: “A Stranger’s House” and “Nearer To Thee.” Butler has also shared a self-directed video for “A Stranger’s House,” and has announced a set of upcoming tour dates for August. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time. More

May 16, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Arcade Fire made an appearance at the Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys), where they performed “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” from their new album, WE. More

May 13, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Arcade Fire made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they performed “Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)” from their new album, WE. More

May 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Arcade Fire recently performed on the BBC radio series Live Lounge. They performed a cover of Harry Styles’ “As It Was” in addition to performing “The Lightning I, II” and “Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)” from their new album, WE. More

May 09, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Arcade Fire have shared a video for “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” Over the weekend, the band performed the song on Saturday Night Live, along with the song “The Lightning I, II.” Both songs are featured on the band’s newest album, WE. More

May 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Arcade Fire have announced a tour in support of their newest album, WE, which is out today via Columbia. More

Apr 29, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2022. It’s a very Canadian edition of Songs of the Week, with four artists from north of the border making this week’s Top 10. More

Apr 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Arcade Fire have shared a new song, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, WE, which will be out on May 6 via Columbia. More

Apr 18, 2022 By Joey Arnone

During their performance at Coachella on Friday night, Arcade Fire performed a new song, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid),” from their forthcoming album, WE. More

Mar 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Will Butler, co-founder of Arcade Fire and younger brother of frontman Win Butler, has announced his departure from the band. In a series of tweets, Butler explains: “There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed—and the band has changed—over the last almost 20 years. Time for new things.” More

Mar 18, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2022. Whereas last week was the strongest seven-day period for new tracks so far this year, where we had a Top 15 songs, this week we almost didn’t do a Songs of the Week. More

Mar 17, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Arcade Fire have announced a new album, WE, and shared its first single, “The Lightning I, II,” via a video for it. More

May 13, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Sarah Neufeld, violinist for Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, is releasing a new solo album, Detritus, tomorrow via Paper Bag. Now she has shared one last pre-release single from the album, title track (also the album’s closing track) “Detritus.” Also, yesterday we posted our new interview with Neufeld about the album. More

Apr 15, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Sarah Neufeld, violinist for Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, has shared a video for her new song “The Top.” More

Mar 10, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Sarah Neufeld, violinist for Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, is releasing a new solo album Detritus, on May 14 via Paper Bag. Now she has shared another song from it, “With Love and Blindness.” It was shared via a video filmed on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. More

Feb 17, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bell Orchestre (which features Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry) are releasing their first new album in 12 years, House Music, on March 19 via Erased Tapes. Now they have shared another song from it, “IV: What You’re Thinking,” via a video for the track. More

Feb 10, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Sarah Neufeld, violinist for Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, has announced a new album Detritus, sharing its lead single “Stories.” Detritus will be out on May 14 via Paper Bag (and One Little Independent in the UK). More

Jan 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bell Orchestre (which features Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry) have announced their first new album in 12 years, House Music, and shared a new track from it, “V: Movement.” More

Nov 02, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Feist has covered Cat Stevens’ “Trouble” in a brief video session to encourage Wisconsin voters to get out to the polls tomorrow. The get out the vote initiative is being put on by the Eaux Claires festival, which was founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner. More

Sep 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire is releasing a new solo album, Generations, on September 25 via Merge. Now he has shared another song from it, “Bethlehem,” via a video for the track that features Butler preparing a feast. More

Aug 19, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire is releasing a new solo album, Generations, on September 25 via Merge. Now he has shared another song from it, “Close My Eyes,” via a video for the track that features Butler in a rowboat built by his grandfather. More

Jul 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small, Stephen Axeman, and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week where the pandemic continues to spread all around America, with the Trump administration doing little to stop it. As a consequence, parents across the land (including this one) are wrestling with whether or not to send their kids to school this fall. More

Jul 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire has announced a new solo album, Generations, and shared its first single, “Surrender,” via a self-directed video for the new song. More

Jul 09, 2020 By Samantha Small

Arcade Fire drummer Jeremy Gara has announced his second solo album Passerine Finale. Along with the news comes the ending track “wraith,” accompanied by a video. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Apr 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry released a new solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1, last September via ANTI-, his first for the label (it was our joint Album of the Week). Now he has announced its follow-up album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 2, and shared its first single, “Long Way Back,” via a video for the song. More

Apr 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry released a new solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1, last September via ANTI-, his first for the label (it was our joint Album of the Week). More

Mar 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s last album, 2017’s Everything Now, featured a song named after Peter Pan. Now their Disney connection has gotten deeper with their new track, “Baby Mine,” which plays during the end credits of the movie studio’s new live action version of the 1941-released animated classic Dumbo. More

Oct 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire released his debut solo album, Policy, in 2015, and put out a live album, Friday Night, in 2016, both via Merge. Now he has teamed up with the electronic duo The Knocks for a new version of “Sun Comes Up,” which was originally featured on the Friday Night live album. More

Sep 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry released a new solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1, today via ANTI-, his first for the label. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing below. Also below are his tour dates. More

Sep 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have shared a video for “Peter Pan (Equiknoxx Remix).” The original version of the song appeared on the band’s last album, Everything Now, which was released in July 2017 via Columbia. Watch it below. More

Aug 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We took a break from Songs of the Week last week due to a little vacation by our publishers. So this week we are compiling the best songs of the last two weeks. Hence we couldn’t contain the list to our usual Top 10, although we didn’t do too badly, only expanding to a Top 11 and a few more honorable mentions than usual. More

Aug 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry is releasing a new solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1, on September 21 via ANTI-, his first for the label. Now he has shared another song from the album, the six-and-a-half-minute long “Song of Wood.” More

Jul 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry has announced a new solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1, and has shared a combined animated video for two of its songs, “Sai No Kawara (River of Death)” and “On the Ground.” More

Jun 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have shared a strange video for “Chemistry.” It features a dog waiter (well, a man with a computer-generated dog head) who falls in love with a cat (a woman in a white dress with a computer-generated cat head) in a restaurant full of sharks. Eventually they are fighting a robot shark in space and the whole thing climaxes in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. More

Apr 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire performed in London tonight and they brought Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker up on stage to perform his song “Cunts Are Still Running the World,” a song from his 2006-released debut solo album Jarvis (it was also featured during the closing credits of Children of Men). More

Apr 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire performed in London last night and did a cover of The Pretenders’ “Don’t Get Me Wrong.” Bands performing covers live is no big deal, except when they have up on stage with them the iconic original singer of the song, in this case The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde. More

Mar 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s latest album, Everything Now, was released last July via Columbia. Last night the Canadian band performed two songs on Saturday Night Live and also took part in a sketch. More

Mar 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s latest album, Everything Now, was released last July via Columbia. Now they have shared a new short film entitled Money + Love. With credits, it runs almost 16 minutes and features the Everything Now songs “Put Your Money on Me” and “We Don’t Deserve Love.” More

Mar 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s latest album, Everything Now, was released last July via Columbia. Now they have announced some more tour dates, which they are dubbing “Everything Now Continued,” to happen this July. More

Mar 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2018 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on April 21 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Feb 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This past weekend Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler showed up at a karaoke bar in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles and performed the band’s “Intervention” (from 2007’s Neon Bible). More

Feb 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne have teamed up with Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Haitian group RAM for a new song, “Ann Ale! (Let’s Go!).” More

Jan 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire released a new album, Everything Now, last July via Columbia. Now they have shared a demo version of the album’s “Put Your Money On Me.” It was originally released as the B-side to the “Put Your Money On Me” 12-inch and now it’s available online. More

Jan 19, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

This week we’re joined by Nate Lacy from Mimicking Birds who talks the wonders and dangers of nature, plus we have medicals, shutdowns, presidential racism, and a sad loss. More

Jan 05, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

It would be inaccurate to say a lot of us started 2017 with optimism overflowing, but there was a certain relief at having put 2016 to bed. While the misery of a Trump White House still lay ahead, some comfort came from sweeping away the detritus of that car crash of an election. More

Nov 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The 2018 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced. Childish Gambino, JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, and Bruno Mars are all vying for Album of the Year. Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Father John Misty, and The National compete for Best Alternative Music Album. More

Sep 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire has taken part in the Spotify Single series. For it they recorded a live version of the title track to their latest album, Everything Now, released in July via Columbia. They also covered John Lennon’s “Mind Games,” the title track to the 1973 album of the same name. Listen to both below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates. More

Sep 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This past weekend Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler was the celebrity guest on NPR’s news quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me. As they do with their well-known guests, they asked him funny questions that played off his profession or name, in this case they were about arcade games. They also talked to him about his basketball playing and Butler jokingly boasted that he could take on the full lineup of The Decemberists at one time. More

Aug 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Back in June Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler remixed “Sex Music,” a song by BEAK>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young). More

Aug 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“The first thing I usually do is take all my clothes off and throw up all over the place.” That’s how Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler says his songwriting process starts in a new video for Clickhole. “Sometimes I do kill a dog when I’m writing a song and I do not apologize for that,” Butler shockingly admits later in the video. More

Aug 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire released their new album, Everything Now, last week via their new label Columbia. Last night the band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform two songs from the album, title track “Everything Now” aired in the broadcast show and “Creature Comfort” was a web-exclusive performance. More

Jul 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire released their new album, Everything Now, today via their new label Columbia. Now you can stream the whole thing below. More

Jul 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. Now they have shared another new song from the album, “Electric Blue,” via its video. More

Jul 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire shared a brand new song yesterday, partly timed to July 4th. The song is something of a history lesson, as it includes lyrics about George Washington. More

Jun 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have previously shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everything Now,”announced a tour, and shared a funny fake cereal ad/teaser video for another song from the album, “Creature Comfort,” as well as a full on video for “Creature Comfort” and an annotated version of the “Creature Comfort” video. More

Jun 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. More

Jun 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have previously shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everything Now,” announced a tour, and shared a funny fake cereal ad/teaser video for another song from the album, “Creature Comfort,” as well as a full on video for “Creature Comfort.” More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have previously shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everything Now,” announced a tour, and shared a funny fake cereal ad/teaser video for another song from the album, “Creature Comfort.” More

Jun 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have previously shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everything Now,” and announced a tour. More

Jun 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

BEAK>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) are releasing a new single, “Sex Music,” on Friday via Invada. More

Jun 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a roundup of all the other news items we couldn’t get to today and yesterday, including stories on Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Swervedriver, Thee Oh Sees, BEAK>, Phoebe Bridgers, Susanne Sundfør, and Shabazz Palaces. More

Jun 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This week was marred by President Trump pulling out of the Paris Accords climate change agreement, but it was a strong one for music. To help you sort through the multitude of new songs released in the last seven days, we have picked the five best. More

Jun 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

In 2016 Angel Olsen released a fantastic new album, MY WOMAN, via Jagjaguwar. It made it to #3 on Under the Radar’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 list. Now she has announced some more tour dates for this summer and fall. More

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

As signs were pointing to over the last 24 hours, Arcade Fire have announced their new album, Everything Now, which is due out July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have also shared a video for the album’s title track and announced a tour. More

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire seem on the verge of announcing their new album, based on all their activity in the last 24 hours. Yesterday they kind of released a disco-influenced new song, “Everything Now.” More

Apr 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Over 100 artists have signed an acoustic guitar for Planned Parenthood and for $10 you can buy a drawing ticket to enter to win the guitar. More

Apr 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

In 2014 soul legend and civil rights activist Mavis Staples had a big hometown concert in Chicago that featured a slew of special guests. Among them were Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, who joined Staples on stage for a cover of Talking Heads’ 1983 song “Slippery People.” More

Feb 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Last month Arcade Fire released a brand new song, “I Give You Power,” that featured the guest vocals of soul legend and civil rights activist Mavis Staples. Its release the day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration was probably no accident, especially as all proceeds from the song are being donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). More

Jan 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Last week Arcade Fire released a brand new song, “I Give You Power,” that featured the guest vocals of soul legend and civil rights activist Mavis Staples. Its release the day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration was probably no accident, especially as all proceeds from the song are being donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). More

Jan 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have released a brand new song, “I Give You Power,” that features the guest vocals of soul legend and civil rights activist Mavis Staples. More

Dec 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire has announced his debut solo album, but it will be issued under the name Sam Patch. Yeah You, And I is due out February 17, 2017 via Dep Records. He has also shared the album’s first single, “St. Sebastian,” and announced some tour dates. Check out the song and tour dates below, as well as the cover art More

Aug 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler from Arcade Fire released his debut solo album, Policy, last March, and put out a live album, Friday Night, back in June, both via Merge. Friday Night contains five songs from Policy, two songs he wrote for The Guardian newspaper last year, and five new songs. Now he has shared a video for one of the new songs, title track “Friday Night.” In it Butler and his wife and young son jump forward to the future, to when the parents are gray-haired and the son is an angry teenager. More

Jul 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Alan Vega of protopunk legends Suicide passed away in his sleep Saturday night. In response Win Butler of Arcade Fire has shared a cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream,” which was released as a single in 1979. More

May 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire‘s Regine Chassagne and Win Butler have performed outside the Lourve museum in Paris in honor of a new exhibition by French street artist JR. More

Mar 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The company behind Coachella, Goldenvoice, are launching a new festival in New York City named Panorama and today the festival’s lineup has been announced. Panorama will go down at Randall’s Island Park in New York City, from July 22-24. The headliners will be LCD Soundsystem (in their first NYC show since their Madison Square Garden farewell concerts five years ago), Arcade Fire, and Kendrick Lamar. More

Feb 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last month Arcade Fire teamed up with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band to hold a second line parade in New Orleans in honor of David Bowie, who passed away in January. Now a brief documentary on the parade has been released. More

Jan 17, 2016 By Zach Hollwedel

This Saturday Arcade Fire teamed up with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band to hold a second line parade in New Orleans in honor of David Bowie, who passed away last Sunday. More

Jan 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have announced that they will be teaming up with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band to hold a second line parade in New Orleans this Saturday in honor of David Bowie, who passed away on Sunday. It’s dubbed “Pretty Things” after the song from Bowie’s Hunky Dory album. More

Dec 24, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler has shared a new Christmas song, “City on a Hill” (last year he also put out a Christmas song, “Christmas 2014”). More

Oct 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler has shared a new video for “What I Want.” In it Butler and actress Jennifer Morrison (House, How I Met Your Mother, Once Upon a Time) go into a club filled with snotty and unruly young punk kids. They then use strange laser guns to turn the kids into boring, responsible adults (such as those who frequent coffee shops or are parents). More

Oct 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Will Butler has shared a new video for “Anna.” It features actress Emma Stone dancing around the iconic ship Queen Mary, a boat that had its maiden voyage in 1936 and has been permanently docked in Long Beach, California as a hotel since 1967. More

Sep 25, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new deluxe edition of their 2013 album Reflektor today. It includes six unreleased tracks: five new songs and one remix. On October 16 the six tracks will be released separately as cassette-only release titled The Relektor Tapes (the tracklist is below). The deluxe edition is streaming on Spotify now and so you can hear all six bonus tracks via the player below. Just skip ahead to hear them. More

Sep 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have announced a new deluxe edition of their 2013 album Reflektor. It will be released digitally this Friday (September 25) and includes six unreleased tracks: five new songs and one remix. On October 16 the six tracks will be released separately as cassette-only release titled The Relektor Tapes (the tracklist is below). This is all timed with Arcade Fire’s feature film, also titled The Reflektor Tapes. It will screen in movie theaters starting this Wednesday (September 23) and Kahlil Joseph directed it. More

Sep 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire have announced a new 7-inch single featuring two outtakes from last year’s album Reflektor. “Get Right” and “Crucified Again” are the songs in question. No firm release date has been confirmed for the 7-inch, but it can be pre-ordered starting September 25 and that’s the cover art above. More

Sep 09, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a feature film, The Reflektor Tapes. It will screen in movie theaters starting September 23 and Kahlil Joseph directed it. They have previously shared the first clip from the film, which was eight-minutes long and essentially also a music video for “Porno,” a song from last year’s album Reflektor. More

Sep 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a feature film, The Reflektor Tapes. It will screen in movie theaters starting September 23 and Kahlil Joseph directed it. They have previously shared the first clip from the film, which was eight-minutes long and essentially also a music video for “Porno,” a song from last year’s album Reflektor. More

Sep 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

SXSW 2015 may have been many months ago, but a video was just posted online of the full “I Wrote That Song” panel. The panel featured from Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan, Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, and Marshall Crenshaw as they all discussed their songwriting process. More

Aug 11, 2015 By Michael Wojtas

Back in July, we reported that Arcade Fire had plans to release a film entitled The Reflektor Tapes, which they previewed with a video for the Reflektor track “Porno.” More

Jul 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a feature film, The Reflektor Tapes. Not much is known about it, except that it will screen in movie theaters starting September 24 and that Kahlil Joseph directed it. They have shared the first clip from the film, which is essentially also a trailer and a music video for “Porno,” a song from last year’s album Reflektor. More

Mar 31, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday Jay Z announced the launch of a brand new music streaming service called Tidal. More

Feb 17, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

In the wake of Kanye West’s lastest faux pas at the Grammys, walking onstage while Beck was accepting his award for Album of the Year, Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler recently decided to a have a little bit of clever fun, releasing a mashup track of Beck’s classic “Loser” with West’s “Jesus Walks.” More

Dec 12, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following in the footstep of several other notable indie music artists Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has announced the development of his own coffee brand. More

Nov 24, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last week Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler announced the release of his debut solo album Policy. More

Nov 20, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Arcade Fire‘s multi-instrumentalist Will Butler has announced a new solo album for March 2015. More

Oct 31, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Arcade Fire have premiered their very own mini horror film to celebrate Halloween. More

Jan 30, 2020 By Matt Connor (As Told To)

I found it when I was 22 or 23. Or maybe it found me. I’d been at the big Salvation Army thrift store not far from my house and someone had dropped off this crate of really amazing records—an actual record collection of someone deep into music—while I was there. More

Nov 14, 2018 By Mark Redfern

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). More

Feb 23, 2016 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Will Butler of Arcade Fire. Butler also released a solo album, Policy, in 2015 on Merge. A shorter version of this interview ran in the Best of 2015 print issue, which is still on newsstands now. More

Aug 04, 2017 By Ryan Meaney

For almost the last 15 years Arcade Fire have been the torchbearers for indie rock, a rollicking collective of multi-instrumentalists who created a love affair with the early blogs of the new millennium. More

Jan 17, 2016 By Zach Hollwedel

Not long after news of David Bowie‘s death shocked the world last week, Arcade Fire and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band announced a second line parade through New Orleans’ French Quarter to honor the late musician. (Traditionally, a New Orleans funeral involves two lines-the first, a somber march to the cemetery; the second parade is an animated, musical celebration of the deceased’s life.) More

Aug 26, 2014 By Robert Altman

Arcade Fire is sometimes accused of being a bit too cerebral and serious. More

Oct 30, 2013 By Austin Trunick

If we can agree on one thing about Arcade Fire‘s latest, the record’s rollout has been nothing short of bizarre, between formalwear-required preview performances, numerous teaser snippets, and the gonzo, celebrity-packed television special. Now, we can finally peel back the mirrorball-like wrapping and find out if Reflektor lives up to its mystique. More

Apr 18, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Day two of Coachella 2011 offered few surprises, but plenty of solid sets, including two British bands—one reunited ‘90s legends back for another try, and the other a star-making main stage performance from a band still on their debut album. More

Aug 02, 2010 By John Everhart

Coming off the high concept of their epochal 2004 debut LP Funeral, Arcade Fire lost the plot a tad on 2007’s Neon Bible. It meandered, and its bombast overwhelmed what at its core was a fine collection of songs. But on their third LP The Suburbs, they in a sense return to the form of Funeral, engendering a grand conceptual conceit. More