Arcade Fire performing at the 2016 Voodoo Festival in New Orleans. Setlist: 1. Ready to Start - 0:30 2. The Suburbs - 5:18 3. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - 11:38 4. Reflektor - 17:24 5. Afterlife - 23:45 6. We Exist - 31:10 7. Normal Person - 36:50 8. Keep the Car Running - 42:05 9. Intervention - 46:30 10. My Body is a Cage - 51:30 11. We Used to Wait - 56:20 12. No Cars Go - 1:01:57 13. Haiti - 1:07:25 14. Snippet of New Song - 1:12:45 15. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - 1:15:10 16. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - 1:20:10 17. Rebellion (Lies) - 1:26:45 18. Here Comes the Night Time - 1:32:40 19. Wake Up - 1:40:45
From the ACL Taping Program on September 14, 2007: Hailed as the "band who helped put Canadian music on the world map" by TIME magazine, experimental indie rock septet Arcade Fire has wowed audiences with its anthemic sound and emotionally-charged lyrics. The band's complex, full sound combines diverse instrumentation with often brooding lyrics that "draw grand lessons from everyday life" (The New York Times).
It’s time to Canuck n’ Roll as we celebrate Canada Day with a trip through the best of the BBC’s music archives, exploring some of that great nation’s finest music stars.
A resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen.
Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”
After a night of heavy drinking, Jeanne and Deb take an empty road through the backwoods to avoid traffic where they unexpectedly hit a mysterious woman that quickly vanishes into a field. Plagued with guilt and unable to go to the police, the girls decide to investigate with the help of some friends. But when their peers start to die or inexplicably vanish, it becomes clear that a bigger, sinister force is at work as Jeanne is thrown into a bizarre conflict with the undead and a sinister voodoo priest with malicious intentions.
An intimate portrait of Brooklyn-based electronic rock band LCD Soundsystem's then-final live show on April 2, 2011, capturing both the exuberant, three-hour farewell concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden and frontman James Murphy's introspective 48 hours surrounding it.
The Arcade Fire’s enigmatic Miroir Noir opens with its most authentic moment: the band faces each other in the middle of an audience and gingerly eases into “Wake Up”. The fans bunch awkwardly around them as Win Butler intones into a ghetto-taped megaphone. Renowned for their sojourns into the crowd, this particular gimmick is usually configured as a populist transgression of the supposed boundary between performer and audience. But this footage shows indie’s high priests seeming uneasy among the faithful, who appear to share the feeling. No species of direct connection is sought. Even in such close quarters, the act of leveling can only be achieved through the conduit of the music.
The making of Spike Jonze's "Her."
New York dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem plays its final show at Madison Square Garden on April 2, 2011.
Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary that not only showcases performances by some of the hottest acts to take the stage, but offers interviews with such musical icons as Beck, Joshua Homme, Mos Def, and Perry Farrell as well. From English icon Morrissey's performance at the inaugural Coachella Festival back in 1999 to Canadian indie rockers the Arcade Fire's electric 2005 set, the musical acts featured here run the gamut from hip-hop to alternative and virtually everything in between. Other artists featured include the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Kool Keith, Radiohead, Saul Williams, and Squarepusher.
Music video for Arcade Fire's "We Exist".