Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Performs ‘Culture War’ for A Campaign to Make Your Vote Count
Less than a week away from the presidential election, Bon Iver’s “A Campaign to Make Your Vote Count” initiative has enlisted Arcade Fire to urge folks to get to the polls next Tuesday “Get out there and vote, it’s never been more important,” singer Win Butler urged ahead of a performance of “Culture War,” a bonus track from 2010’s The Suburbs. Check “‘Culture War’ x For Wisconsin” below. [embedded content] In other Arcade Fire news, back in August, the group played to mark the 10th anniversary of landmark album The Suburbs, which contains “Culture Wars.” Additionally, Win Butler’s brother Will released a solo album last month. Read our chat with him here. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins wit...
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler on How White Privilege, Race Reporting Informed New Solo LP
The fall after Will Butler’s debut album, Policy, was released in 2015, he went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to study…policy. After working with Partners in Health, a non-profit focused on providing global medical health care, by donating proceeds from Arcade Fire’s single “Haiti” off Funeral and licensing proceeds from NFL ads that used the band’s “Wake Up,” Butler wanted to help the organization more. It would also be a great opportunity to be exposed to people he wouldn’t have necessarily met otherwise. Studying at Harvard coincided with Donald Trump winning the presidency, intensifying Butler’s desire to investigate how the United States got to the point where this could happen and how to move forward from there. Butler studied under Leah Wright Rigueur, the histor...
Watch Arcade Fire Play ‘Sprawl II’ to Mark 10 Years of ‘The Suburbs’
Arcade Fire marked the 10th anniversary of The Suburbs by sharing a duo performance of the LP’s penultimate track, “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains).” The clip, shared Monday on the band’s Instagram, first aired as part of their three-song set during a Salesforce livestream. Régine Chassagne sings, dances, and waves pom-poms on a checkered courtyard; meanwhile, Win Butler operates a mixing board and films on his cell phone. “Hi, guys,” he says at the end. “Thank you. Stay safe out there.” The band paired the video with some more words of encouragement. “The Suburbs is 10 years old now,” they wrote in a caption. “Can’t wait to all play music together again. Until then, stay safe and well.” The Suburbs, issued in A...
Win Butler Shares New Music Snippet and ‘Message of Unity and Hope’ With Fans
We’ve been receiving mixed messages between Will and Win Butler in regards to Arcade Fire’s new album, but early Saturday morning Win shared a 45-second song snippet via Instagram story that could be previewing his band’s new material. The series of clips show hands on a mixing board washed in an infrared filter as music streams in the background. The frontman opted to caption the video with ab uplifting message to fans rather than explaining what we’re listening to. “These are the strangest times . . . and everyone is going through stress and pain for a huge variety of reasons,” he wrote. “I just want to send a message of unity and hope that all the forces trying to keep us apart won’t be successful.” “Until the world is made whole. One body one soul. [Heart emoji] Win,” he concluded his ...
Arcade Fire Was Making a New Album Until, Yep, COVID
A few months ago, Win Butler subtly shared that Arcade Fire was at work on their first studio album since 2017’s Everything Now. In announcing his new solo album today (July 14), Will Butler revealed that the band was at work, but circumstances, primarily COVID-19, threw a wrench into those plans. “Arcade Fire was recording. Well, we were recording… But now our drummer is in Australia, two of us are in Canada, and the rest are in America,” Butler said in an interview with NME. “Australia are having a crazy outbreak, the border to Canada is sealed right now… like, Jesus Christ. It takes more logistics to get together. It always took a certain amount of logistics, but right now it’s insurmountable.” The problem with the sessions, at least as of now, Butler says the band won’t know ...
