The folks at Goldenvoice, the company most famous for promoting Coachella, were probably looking forward to a reprieve from the three digit temperatures their flagship festival often endures in the Southern California desert when they were organizing their New York City festival, some months ago. Instead, they, and festival-goers like myself, would have to persevere […]
Ten acts we'll be checking out at Panorama
The inaugural Coachella East, better known as Panorama starts tomorrow on Randall’s Island. The folks at Goldenvoice have done an admirable job putting together a solid festival lineup, mostly consisting of big tent indie, electro and hip-hop. Here’s the ten acts we’ll most definitely be checking out this weekend.
Here are some things you can trade for your Arcade Fire tickets
Are you one of the lucky people who has tickets to see Arcade Fire in Bushwick this weekend? I know $200 each isn’t enough to tempt you to sell your tickets on Stubhub, but how about trading your tickets for one of these incredible options on Craigslist?
Tickets for Arcade Fire's 'secret' show are on sale at noon
As we mentioned on Tuesday, Arcade Fire are playing a couple of ‘secret’ intimate shows in Brooklyn on Friday and Saturday. They’ve confirmed the location to be 299 Meserole. Tickets go on sale today at noon
Arcade Fire "secret show" venue revealed for their upcoming gigs in Brooklyn
Mysocialist thinks they’ve uncovered where Arcade Fire will perform Friday 10/18 and Sat 10/19. Drum roll please:
New Spike Jonze Trailer: 'Her' – Film to Feature Music By Arcade Fire
Just Gimme Indie Rock!
Indie rock is such an overused term that defining it and charting the genre’s evolution is almost impossible, but with his new film Just Gimme Indie Rock!: The Story of an Underground Uprising, Brad Katz is attempting to do just that. Just Gimme will cover indie music history of the past 40 years, from genre […]
Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze made an amazing video
There has not been a music video this emotionally affecting in a long time. And it’s easy to say that the art form has lost its flare with every video online simply trying to be a viral success. But this Spike Jonze-directed piece for Arcade Fire’s title track from The Suburbs proves that there is […]
The Roots and John Legend cover Arcade Fire
I was pretty excited to hear a soul cover of “Wake Up.” With it’s hopefulness and positive energy I was really hoping this would be a banger. But I guess when the original is so huge sounding, anything else will always seem to fall flat. But if anyone can get away with this cover, I’ll […]
The Wilderness Downtown: Arcade Fire Meets HTML5
Tech nerds will rejoice because this interactive film showcases the potential of HTML5. For everyone else, this interactive video is a pretty cool film featuring the music of The Arcade Fire. Make sure you enter your real childhood address. We were dubious too, but it’s worth it to get the full effect. (Best viewed in […]