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Before last night, Arcade Fire hadn’t played a proper live show in front of human beings since February of 2020, when they headlined New Orleans’ Mahalia Jackson Theater. During the COVID era, the band has kept busy, debuting their song “Generation A” on Stephen Colbert’s election-night special a...

Bloc Party haven’t released an LP since Hymns way back at the beginning of 2016, but they’re set to change that in 2022. The band will release their sixth album Alpha Games in April. It’s produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan, a duo who’ve worked together on projects by Nick Cave, Arcade Fire, Yeah Ye...

Arcade Fire's Win Butler, Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins and more are among the rockers to take shots at the genre in the pastThe post Swedish House Mafia on criticism of EDM from rock bands: “It’s just a lot of ignorance” appeared first on NME.

Back in October, Win Butler said that Arcade Fire had recorded “two or three” albums during lockdown. If they’ve kept up that pace, then the band would’ve now recorded four or six new albums. Thus far, though, we haven’t heard much of that. Arcade Fire debuted a song called “Generation ...