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Arcade Fire to Score Richard Kelly's The Box

Arcade Fire Director Richard Kelly, who hit a homer with Donnie Darko in 2001 and more recently struck out on Southland Tales, is currently in post-production on his latest film, The Box starring Cameron Diaz, and Pitchfork is reporting that Arcade Fire is set to score the film. Plot summary via IMDB:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
Posted on 05/12/2008 | Comments(78) | Permalink
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Video: Arcade Fire - "Black Mirror"

Aracde Fire - Black Mirror Like their interactive "Neon Bible" video, Arcade Fire have produced another website video for Neon Bible opener, "Black Mirror." You can't control Win like a puppet master this time around, but you can play engineer by pressing numbers on your keyboard to hear different parts of the track. Neato!

Video: Arcade Fire - "Black Mirror"

Posted on 01/25/2008 | Comments(40) | Permalink
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Arcade Fire's Win Butler Audaciously Hopes For Obama

Win Butler and Barack Obama Win Butler weighs in on the Democratic primaries with a recent entry on the Arcade Fire website. Not a fan of Hillary (via NME):
I am watching Hillary Clinton in her victory speech in new Hampshire...they just threw a bunch of college kids behind her, and had her talk about student loans, and had her daughter come out for a long awkward hug...does anyone actually buy it? Surely young people are too media savvy to be fooled by this kind of shit.
do we live in a democracy so we can just keep electing the same families?
Barack is the first candidate in my lifetime to strip some of this bullshit away, and I just hope we don't blow this chance. man if we miss this opportunity we don't deserve it...how bad does it have to get?

fuck!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 01/15/2008 | Comments(67) | Permalink
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Arcade Fire Interview on NPR's Fresh Air

Win Butler and Regine Chassagne Win and Regine sit down for a no-doubt breathy interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross today (6/4). The audio will be available for stream at "approx. 5:00 p.m. ET" or you can go terrestrial and check your local listings to hear it first.

Stream: Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Regine Chassagne Interview
Posted on 06/04/2007 | Comments(51) | Permalink
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Video: Arcade Fire on VBS

Vice continues its campaign of hipster media domination with the launching of its own online broadcast network to compliment its magazine and record label. VBS definitely has some cool content worth checking out. Filmmaker Lance Bangs has his own show and the latest installment is footage from Arcade Fire's February 16th performance at Judson Memorial Church. Enjoy...

Posted on 04/05/2007 | Comments(12) | Permalink
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Village Voice: Crib Notes to the Arcade Fire Press Inferno

Arcade Fire
The fiery inferno
As well expected, the music press has been on fire with regard to last week's release of Neon Bible. The Village Voice has compiled a cheat sheet to the journalistic firestorm.
OVERWROUGHT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

New Yorker
" . . . as deliberate as a well-rehearsed string quartet but as loose as a liquored-up marching band."

" . . . like a local repertory production of The Threepenny Opera that has gone on the road."

" . . . as if setting up a campfire in the middle of a nightmare."

New York Times Magazine
" . . . the feel of a Clash concert infiltrated by Cirque du Soleil."

" . . . an antic carnival orchestra."

New York Magazine
" . . . Arcade Fire had magically synthesized anthemic bar-band songs with the highbrow chops of a string quartet."

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Can Neon Bible burn the Shins and blaze up the Billboard charts in its debut week? Can I add another "fire" reference? Where there's smoke...
Posted on 03/13/2007 | Comments(18) | Permalink
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"Recorded entirely under solar power," Brightblack Morning Light like things like tee-pees, headbands and most likely hallucinogenic drugs. More solar power to 'em. Their second album of slow motion hippie blues, Motion to Rejoin, is due September 23rd on Matador. [DOWNLOAD]
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Consider Rook essential summer listening. Like your "Summer Reading" list, Rook isn't really "summer-y" at all. It's heavy, dense, dramatic and beautiful and dark. Four of those five adjectives actually DO apply to summer, come to think of it... - jimtarnation  [READ REVIEW]
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