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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Who the Hell is Arcade Fire? Part 2
Description: Let’s just say it: Arcade Fire is weird…just about everything they’ve done in their career has been not only unconventional but against the rules…
They rarely give interviews…they won’t license their music…they’d rather spend weeks working with the people of Haiti than lounging by a swimming pool somewhere…they won’t even stay on the stage when they perform…
Yet whatever they’ve done has worked…junos, Grammy’s, Brits, The Polaris Music Prize…members have had their work nominated for an academy award…humanitarian awards…
Critics have fallen all over them...