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If You've Visited Canada, You Can't Vote
Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has perfected the geographic excuse. South Carolina wasn't representative because the primary electorate was so black; defeat in Delaware didn't count because the state was so small; Maine held a caucus, dominated by Obama-loving activists, and it snowed. Clinton headquarters used the same playbook when dismissing the endorsement of Barack Obama by Arcade Fire, the indie band. They're Canadian, the Clintonites claimed, so their support doesn't count. Except the band members, as noted by Adam Nagourney of the New York Times, actually grew up in Texas, the biggest state up for grabs in the Democratic race this coming Tuesday. Despite the rush of actors and musicians to Obama's camp, Hillary does retain some cultural cred. Last night's appearance by the Senator on Saturday Night Live , though it lacked the impact of her husband's saxophone show on Arsenio in 1992, wasn't entirely embarrassing. Click for the clip. More »
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Arcade Fire: We "Steal Quite Blatantly From Black People"
The mostly-Canadian collective Arcade Fire, reacting to a New Yorker article by Sasha Frere-Jones in which he claimed that "If there is a trace of soul, blues, reggae, or funk in Arcade Fire, it must be philosophical," has actually assembled an mp3 of bits that they have taken from the music of the blacks! It's sort of the most awesome thing they've ever done, though by our lights that isn't saying much.
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones is concerned that all the indie kids don't try to sound like black people anymore. He went to an Arcade Fire show and was totally bored! Do they even have a rhythm section? It's all shouting and French horns, isn't it? "But, in the past few years," says Sasha, "I've spent too many evenings at indie concerts waiting in vain for vigor, for rhythm, for a musical effect that could justify all the preciousness." Ok so he didn't he get there in time for LCD Soundsystem then? [New Yorker]
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Remainders: The W Nanny Diaries
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Win Butler on the Brain at the Observer
In the culture section of this week's New York Observer, real estate reporter Max Abelson tries his hand at music criticism and spills a few hundred words on the new album by LCD Soundsystem. We're sure it's a fine piece, but as it happened, we didn't get through half of it before we noticed that the accompanying photograph of James Murphy was taken by none other than Win Butler, lead singer of the Arcade Fire. More »
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Why Arcade Fire's St. Win Destroyed His Guitar
On Wednesday we mentioned to a friend that we were sort of warming up to the new Arcade Fire record, This Music Will Make The Blind See. Yesterday, giving it another listen, we got to the lyric "Don't want to live in America no more," and said, "You know what, fuck this shit." Our verdict is still at "disappointment." Anyway, Win Butler was in this week's Onion, talking about the famous "Saturday Night Live" guitar-smashing incident (an act only slightly less juvenile than the aforementioned lyric). His explanation? More »-thumb.jpg)
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Media Bubble: Giving You The Bird
Someone sent us this picture of what they describe as a "wild bird" outside the Conde Nast building this morning, which is apparently freaking people out as much or more than the homeless woman who was peeing in the lobby of 4 Times Square on Friday. The bird will be served in the cafeteria around noon. Anna Wintour's gonna put a napkin over her head and eat it ortolan-style. And now, the news.More »
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Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible": Transcendent Or Extraordinary?
Today's the day that thousands of sensitive young men with artfully-mussed hair and faded Luna t-shirts have been waiting for: Neon Bible, the second record from sorta-Canadian indie heroes Arcade Fire, sees release shortly. That's right, the album that's going to cure cancer and end famine and bring Trump and Rosie together is almost on the shelves! The young men, of course, don't care about that—they downloaded it off the Internet months ago—but they do want to know what Pitchfork has to say about it so that they can adjust their opinions accordingly. More »
'Times' Mag Goes Big On Arcade Fire
A little dramatic, maybe, but pretty good. Why, indeed!
One Very, Very Indie Band [NYT]
A little dramatic, maybe, but pretty good. Why, indeed!
One Very, Very Indie Band [NYT]
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Not perhaps since a drunken Paul Westerberg of the Replacements started screaming "Fuck!," or not perhaps since Morris Day posed the eternal question "Where the fuck this chicken come from? I thought I ordered ribs!" or even perhaps since the Sex Pistols were unable to even make it into America at all has Saturday Night Live seen such an extreme and in your face musical performance. On Saturday night, stick-thin Canadian Win Butler, the lead singer of a music group called Arcade Fire, reinvented the art of rock performance with a single drastic act of nihilistic destruction. Who are these very scary young comers? What won't they do next?
Arcade Fire Invents Frightening New Rock Music Technique On 'SNL'
Not perhaps since a drunken Paul Westerberg of the Replacements started screaming "Fuck!," or not perhaps since Morris Day posed the eternal question "Where the fuck this chicken come from? I thought I ordered ribs!" or even perhaps since the Sex Pistols were unable to even make it into America at all has Saturday Night Live seen such an extreme and in your face musical performance. On Saturday night, stick-thin Canadian Win Butler, the lead singer of a music group called Arcade Fire, reinvented the art of rock performance with a single drastic act of nihilistic destruction. Who are these very scary young comers? What won't they do next?
