Arcade Fire
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Ahead of the presidential inauguration, musicians piled in to set their thoughts to music. Here are five of the most notable
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In support of his new live album, the Arcade Fire member picks a selection of songs performed in front of a live audience, including hypnotic Motown, Prince’s epoch and his grandfather on steel guitar
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A motley collection of musicians have turned their attentions to science over the years - sometimes rigorously, sometimes tenuously and sometimes downright inaccurately. Examine our seventeen specimens and post your own findings below the line.
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Kahlil Joseph’s documentary about the beloved stadium fillers may connect with their fans, though it tells us little about the music or the people who make it
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AC/DC’s Phil Rudd refuses to give up the fight and Arcade Fire release a love-it-or-hate-it documentary in our weekly music news roundup
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Documentary about terrorist attack headlines the latest batch of announcements for September’s festival alongside a raft of music docs and horror films
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Documentary shot by Sundance winner Kahlil Joseph chases the origins of their 2013 album, Reflektor from Jamaica to recording in Montreal and a gig in Haiti
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Indie-Springsteens with arena ambitions give four-square guitar rock a refreshing, euphoric makeover
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Neil Young? Joni Mitchell? This week pick out music that goes beyond the big stars to capture the spirit, culture, and landscape of this vast, bilingual country
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... up momentum, energy, intensity, layers, volume or sheer emotion. From a whisper to a scream, suggest music that grows in unusual or powerful ways
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The Arcade Fire member rips through a thunderbolt set driven by an infectious, passionate, hooting and a-hollering
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From the Smiths to the Strokes and beyond, this is a fine showcase of the venerable Rough Trade label
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All this week, Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has been writing songs based on Guardian news stories. His final song is inspired by the ransacking of the museum in Mosul by Isis
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All this week, Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has been writing songs based on stories he has read in the Guardian. Here’s the fourth, prompted by the discovery of a black hole 12bn times larger than the sun
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The first of two new songs today based on Guardian stories written by Arcade Fire's Will Butler takes its inspiration from a tale of water crisis in São Paulo
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The first of two new songs today based on Guardian stories written by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler takes its inspiration from a tale of water crisis in São Paulo
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On this beautifully euphoric, deeply personal piece of work, Pallett manages to strike the perfect art/pop balance, writes Alexis Petridis
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Led by the track Take My Side and inspired by ‘American music’, the record was recorded in Jimi Hendrix’s old living room
Panorama festival review – Sia, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem sizzle