What's going on Tuesday?

Is that Harlem show free?

Dead Weather have some great super costumes.
Very "blues" rock n roll leather a la mode.

Harlem? Thought that was in Manhattan?

dead weather and harlem gonna burn that place to the ground

WHAT SHOULD I WEAR TO SUCH A SHOW? - DAVID SANDERSON

spoon on jimmy fallon tonight

Am I the only one that's surprised there isn't some secret or last-minute Arcade Fire show at Bowery Ballroom that people will bitch about not being able to get tickets to tonight?

8:23am....they're playing in a venue in Hipsterville.

Shhhh

8:23...they are a different band these days..what has it been 4 years since they did a show like this in NYC...I am not surprised at all!

AF covered Jay Reatard last night in Philly....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQbYegL6sc&feature=player_embedded

Thoughs?

I miss the WS and the Racs, I wish Dead Weather would go away, ucch

I could see why AF is avaoiding a bowery show this time out. The crowd may get wild. But, Win should know they may seem wild but there are soooooo tame.

Its not thier fault the kids at the Bowery shows are using great big words they just dont understand. You need a prety good vocab to pretend to like music nowadays.

9:04,

Really? Bitter old man much?

@9:02 Me too, dead weather is not doing it for me.

9:07, listen to rococo. then maybe you'll understand what 9:04 was trying to make a joke about

Mosshart is by far the best frontwoman alive right now, u n00bs need to calm down with the WS shite. Jack will be back on lead soon enough

mosshart can go eat a dick, she sucks. she should be posing for fucking elle or vogue with 5 cigarettes in her mouth. i cant stand her

"mosshart can go eat a dick, she sucks. she should be posing for fucking elle or vogue with 5 cigarettes in her mouth." Yep-Agree with all that
she can eat my d*ck, literally means she sucks. She should be posing for elle and vogue with cigs in her mouth-thats why she rules. Go back to listening to brittany u a$$clown

Set Times for Harlem / Dead Weather ?

Is Harlem any good live? I like the album but could see them falling flat in a live setting, or at least a big open one like PP.

a$$clown? enjoy the fashion show you fucking tool

William Brittelle is a genius - I can't wait to hear his new record.

Harlem is amazing live, 10:03!
Have fun at the show tonight.

Harlem 7:30, DW @8:45 according to celebrate brooklyn which was accurate for the national last week-give or take 10 mins. I'll be there enjoying the fashion show with brittany blaring in my headphones

It's a big week in Arcade Fire land. The band released their third straight Best New Music LP, The Suburbs, and they're celebrating with two gigs at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. Not too shabby for an uncompromising independent rock group.

What's more, eccentric filmmaker Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil) is directing a webcast of the August 5 MSG show, which airs on YouTube/Vevo at 10 p.m. EDT. We recently had a quick chat with AF leader Win Butler about the webcast and Gilliam as well as an upcoming film collaboration with director Spike Jonze.

Pitchfork: How did you guys get Terry Gilliam involved in shooting the webcast at Madison Square Garden?

Win Butler: The opportunity to film the show came up at the last minute, and we just gave him a call. We knew it was gonna be a long shot, but the timing was perfect. He's my total hero. My favorite English teacher in high school showed me Brazil when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

With a lot of my favorite records-- like Blonde on Blonde-- every time I listen to it I'm like, "Oh yeah, this song's on this record?" even though I've heard it 100,000 times. I have the same experience with Brazil. When I was 15, it was overwhelming; I don't think I got half of what was going on. I wasn't like, "That's my favorite film," as much as I was like, "What just happened to me?" I watched it again when I was 18 and had a much better grasp on it. When I was older, the nuance of the love story probably hit home a lot more, but I probably related to the science fiction-y elements when I was younger.

Pitchfork: Was he familiar with your music when you contacted him?

WB: Yeah, he'd come to see us play in Brixton on the last tour with Heath Ledger, actually. We sent him a copy of The Suburbs and I guess he moved from rural Minnesota to somewhere in the San Fernando Valley in the 50s, so he had the classic experience growing up in the suburbs where they had just cut down the orange groves and set up this totally prefabricated community. He was talking about how it reminded him of his youth even though it was this cross-generational thing. I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

Pitchfork: How is it going to be different than a normal live concert webcast?

WB: We're not sure yet. It's fun because it's so last minute. That's the way this band always works. In the early days, my biggest frustration was like, "What do you mean you can't book a tour a week before it's supposed to happen? That's crazy." Terry is coming out to Montreal and he's gonna ride on the bus with us and hang out and shoot ideas around. It's a new medium. It's like having a live TV program and you have a certain amount of time to fill and be creative and have fun with it.

Pitchfork: Do you remember any concert films you watched growing up that had an affect on you?

WB: I was a huge Cure fan in high school and I really liked The Cure in Orange. It's in this old amphitheater in France and Robert Smith had short hair-- that was like the most powerful thing in the film. Like, "Wow, his hair's short. What the hell? I can see his face."

Pitchfork: That's funny because when you guys first started doing shows for this tour, a lot of people were talking about your hair as well-- on the internet, at least. [laughs]

WB: Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that? [laughs]

Pitchfork: As far as airing the concert across the internet, I feel like some bands wouldn't want to give things away like that, especially at the beginning of a tour. Was that a concern for you?

WB: I'll take any opportunity I can get for people to engage with the actual art. There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music. It's strange being in a time where rock radio and MTV-- two of the ways I was exposed to music when I was younger-- have really shifted so much that it's increasingly difficult for people to actually hear the music itself. I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song; if I see a band on "SNL" I'll be like, "Oh, I like that Vampire Weekend song." It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

Pitchfork: As far as stuff like that goes, it seems that when you licensed "Wake Up" for the Super Bowl and gave the proceeds to Haiti relief efforts, it was the best of both worlds; everybody gets exposed to your music, but it's not crass.

WB: That was very much an emergency situation and we were trying to figure out ways to make money fast to help Haiti. It was just such a no-brainer. At that time, I pretty much said we'd be open to licensing stuff we'd normally say no to-- but we still couldn't do a car commercial for "Keep the Car Running" because it would change the song forever. Even in the emergency situation, there are still lines we couldn't quite bring ourselves across.

Pitchfork: I read that you guys worked with Spike Jonze recently, was that for a music video?

WB: It's not a video. It's a short film; we're still working on it. It's like a science-fiction B-movie companion piece for the record.

Basically, we played Spike some music from the album and the first images that came to his mind had the same feeling as this idea for a science fiction film I had when I was younger. My brother and I and Spike wrote it together, which was really fun-- it was like total amateur hour.

We shot it in Austin and a lot of kids are in the film, and it was great just hanging out with these 15-year-olds for a week and writing down all the funny things they said. It was cool to revert to being a 15-year-old for a little while.

Pitchfork: Do you know how long it will be?

WB: I don't. That would be good to know... we run a really tight ship here at Arcade Fire. [laughs]

Pitchfork: It's not bad how you can go from doing this free-form thing with Spike Jonze and then get Terry Gilliam to film a show at Madison Square Garden.

WB: It surprises us, too. Everything like is like, "Really? We get to do this? OK, well, we're gonna do it like this. Is that OK? It is? All right. Bye." [laughs]

Arcade Fire last night, Boris tomorrow....WELCOME TO PHILLY, B!TCHES!!!!!

The deadweather wouldn't be allowed to do what they do I'd it weren't for bands such as The Britany Spears

um...... can we remove the obvious record label arcade fire advertisment?

Pretty sure Arcade Fire are playing a secret set at the Dill & Chives Sabra Release Party tonight.

michael cera @ apple store? fuck that guy! let's go and beat him up.

"Dill & Chives Sabra Release Party" was pretty funny. Can someone please explain the hummus obsession on this site? Just an elaborate, recurring joke? I'm late to the game on this one. Thanks.

Michael Cera? I'd hit it!...Upside the head! Nah, just kidding. He's not too bad. Mother fucker needs to play a different role quickly though.

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Dr. Obvious

arcade fire on 8/6 at msg will be the bomb.

Natural Child show is free tonite at Union Pool. 9pm door. That's the show to see. They killed it at Black Lips last nite

they're playing in a hummus pit, naturally

Mosshart would regain cool status if she would play with Discount again

coolest chic alive, hands down.....still

No mention of Jack White's Brooklynvegan shout out at the show last night?

what did he say? did he admit that the anonymous commenter on bv who thinks mosshart (and the dead weather) sucks is right on the money?

show was siiiiick

He said something about, "Most of you probably read Brooklynvegan, don't you..." or something like that. And then he brought some Amish looking dude out on stage and said a whole bunch of shit I couldn't understand, something like, "You think this guy just eats carrots and ____ and what not? Get the fuck outta here."

It was weird. Could use a little more clarity on the incident myself.

Jack White saying something weird? Stop it!