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Watch Spike Jonze's Arcade Fire Short Scenes From The Suburbs

It's been a long time coming but the Spike Jonze's short film "Scenes From The Suburbs" based on Arcade Fire's latest fantastic record The Suburbs is finally available for online viewing. The trailer is above while the actual short can be seen by clicking here. As for the specifics let's have the official blurb do some explaining:

Director Spike Jonze teams up with Arcade Fire to create a thirty-minute short film inspired by their critically acclaimed album, The Suburbs, and its themes of war and coming of age in suburbia. Co-written by Jonze & Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Will Butler, this companion piece to the album follows the narrator, living in a suburban dystopia, trying to piece together fragmented memories from when he was a teenager, and his experiences with his friends as they grow apart. [via mubi]

As with all things that involve the great Spike Jonze, it's best to go in without anything even remotely spoilery so I'll spare you my thoughts. Of course this isn't the only Spike Jonze/Arcade Fire/The Suburbs effort that exists as you may remember from the wonderful video for the album's title track.

Also the suburbs are scary.

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Watch The Spike Jonze Directed Video For Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

Turns out that blogosphere explosion over the summer about the Arcade Fire collaboration with Spike Jonze was for nothing more than a music video for the opening and title track from their awesome album The Suburbs. Of course with Spike  Jonze involved this is still incredibly exciting and the results are as fantastic as one would expect. Probably shouldn't really spoil much as it plays out pretty cinematically and you can watch it yourself, so let's just all agree the suburbs are a scary place, as are local diners.   [via consequence of sound]

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Stream The Awesome New Arcade Fire Album The Suburbs

Not sure I can think of a better way to start off a Monday than a free legal stream of the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs a day before its official release, which certainly bodes well for a week that will see the start of the second leg of Phish's summer tour. The album is really great so I highly recommend a few listens and subsequent purchase. If you don't believe me check out the stream below courtesy of NPR, and if you need further convincing there's some other good news.

On Thursday August 5th the band will webcast their show at Madison Square Garden via YouTube with the legendary Terry Gilliam in the director's chair. The show will feature "special guests" and some interactive elements for those of us not lucky enough to be in attendance. More info can be found at the Arcade Fire YouTube page, the trailer is included below.

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Arcade Fire Give The Suburbs A Tracklist, Stream Two Singles

Are you ready for some Arcade Fire news fellow revelers of awesome? Looks like the rumors of a double album weren't totally made up as the tracklist was just revealed and it is sixteen songs deep. That's not even including some bonus disc or marketing gimmick, just an LP with sixteen tunes. Fantabulous. 

During my little internet sabbatical earlier this week there were also a couple new tunes from the album that made their way online, which are both apparently the lead singles from the album. The first "Ready To Start" is apparently the US single while BBC Radio debuted the first official UK single "We Used To Wait". You can check out streams of both tunes below.  [via CoS]

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The Suburbs Tracklist:

  1. The Suburbs
  2. Ready to Start
  3. Modern Man
  4. Rococo
  5. Empty Room
  6. City With No Children
  7. Half Light 1
  8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
  9. Suburban War
  10. Month of May
  11. Wasted Hours
  12. Deep Blue
  13. We Used to Wait
  14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
  15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
  16. The Suburbs (Continued)
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Arcade Fire Announce More North American Tour Dates

Late last week the splendidly named Arkady Fireovitch let the world in on some details about the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs. As it turns out the wait for the new record won't be all that long, with the official release date scheduled for August 3rd. Adding to that awesome comes six new North American shows including four with Spoon serving as openers.

The new album is currently available through a pre-order that will get you instant downloads of the newly released 12" featuring "The Suburbs" and "Month Of May", which you can stream here. Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale this week through the usual suspects.   [via CoS]

06/07 – Sherbrooke, QC @ Granada Theatre
06/08 – Sherbrooke, QC @ Granada Theatre
06/28 – Helsinki, FI @ Senaatintori
06/30 – Rättvik, SE @ Dalhalla
07/02 – Arendal, NO @ Hove Festival
07/04 – Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
07/09 – Eadestown, IE @ Oxegen
07/12 – Quebec City, QC @ Festival d’ete de Quebec
07/13 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
07/31 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Music Festival
08/01 – Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
08/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center #
08/04 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #
08/06 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion #
08/08 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/09 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
08/11 – Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre #
08/12 – Toronto, ON @ Toronto Centre Island
08/27 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
08/28 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/29 – Saint-Cloud, FR @ Rock en Seine
08/31 – Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom
09/02 – Bologna, IT @ I-Day Festival

# = w/ Spoon

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Check Out The Two New Arcade Fire Songs The Suburbs And Month Of May

The blogosphere is about to wet its collective pants as the new Arcade Fire 12" has just leaked. That's what she said. After alerting the world that they'd be releasing some new music via a postcard sent to the internet, Win Butler and friends clearly were serious as both tunes are already spreading like wildfire through the interwebs. The lead, or A side, is the track The Suburbs which may or may not be the basis for a rumored Spike Jonze short film. The latest rumor is that the possible double album will be released sometime in July. Clearly more news is on the way, we'll update you when we hear it. For now just enjoy the awesome. [via the audio perv]

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