Listen to new songs by Moses Sumney (Ariana Grande cover), Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin, Glassing, Vio-lence (Dead Kennedys cover), Steve Aoki's Crass remix, Lomelda, and more...
You can listen to Jeremy Gara's new single "wraith' and watch a trailer for Will Butler's new album Generations. Both their albums are out in September.
The Vermont edition includes Real Estate, Dan Deacon, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Pond, Frankie Cosmos, Big Thief and more; Detroit's Waking Windows has Car Seat Headrest, Whitney, Priests, Mount Eerie, Julie Byrne, Deradoorian and more.
So far Arcade Fire only have European spring/summer festivals announced, but drummer Jeremy Gara says a world tour may start in April and the new album "should be out this year."
Knoxville, TN's unique Big Ears Festival returns March 23-26, and today the fest is revealing new additions to the lineup. Wilco were already announced, but also frontman Jeff Tweedy will do an improv set with Chikamorachi (aka Chris Corsano and Darin Gray)...
"This unseen sparrow kept following me around the day I fell into working on this one - it kept singing the same three notes of a chord over everything that was happening so it eventually haunted the song."
As you may know, Arcade Fire members have been focusing on side projects lately and drummer Jeremy Gara has two. One is backing Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury (also with Basia Bulat in the band), though most details on that one are still TBA, and he also put out his self-produced solo debut album Limn last month...