Hear Arcade Fire’s latest cover, the Pixies’ “Alec Eiffel” off 1991’s Trompe le Monde.
They performed this at the Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA.
You’ll hear the group play a bit of the group Boston’s “More Than A Feeling,” and then into “Alec Eiffel.”
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last night at the Santa Barbara Bowl Arcade Fire covered the Dead Kennedys’ infamous “California Über Alles.”
A fan shot this fragment of the performance.
“Afterlife”:
“Flashbulb Eyes” and “Reflektor”:
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Of just buy the damn thing:
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I guess since John Fogerty once lived in Northern California (El Cerrito, next to Berkeley, to be exact), Arcade Fire chose to cover the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Hey, Tonight,” last night (July 30) at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, about an hour south of Fogerty’s old home.
Richard Reed Parry handled the lead vocal.
Check it out:
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Last night Arcade Fire covered R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” at Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood in Atlanta.
Today the members of R.E.M. posted on their Facebook page: “R.E.M. is honored by this elegant cover by Arcade Fire…”
Check it out.
Another view of the same performance but this includes “Here Comes the Night Time,” which the group played after “Radio Free Europe.”
Thanks Consequence of Sound!
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Someone has posted this live version of “Get Right,” a song that Arcade Fire may have recorded for Reflektor, but of course didn’t include on it.
This live version was recorded at Montreal’s Salsathèque club on September 9, 2013, according to Consequence of Sound.
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Check out Arcade Fire’s version of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.”
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Last night Arcade Fire covered Stevie Wonder’s ’60s hit “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, MI.
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Arcade Fire performed Prince’s “Controversy” at the Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, last night.
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Arcade Fire On The Talk Show Circuit: Arcade Fire played “Afterlife” on “The Tonight Show” earlier this week.
Radio On: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played “Shibboleth” live at WFUV last month. Now you can watch:
Blink And It’s Gone: Haim released a 22 second teaser for their upcoming video, “If I Could Change Your Mind.”
Stranger Than Fiction: “Channel rock ‘n roll cool with these Bob Dylan jeans from Lucky Brand. Featuring a button fly, five-pocket construction, subtle fading and a relaxed straight leg silhouette.” — ad copy at the Lord & Taylor website where the jeans are available.
Evolution Of A Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, is the tentative title for the next Panda Bear solo album. Noah Lennox the new album is inspired by the work of 9th Wonder, the Chicago hip-hop producer whose influence informs the samples-and-beats approach that dominates the new tracks. “I feel like the overall theme of a lot of the songs as a group is change or evolution, mainly of people and what that process is like,” Lennox says. “Growth, I suppose.” — Under the Radar
Brave New World: Cut Copy have a new video for “We Are Explorers” off from 2013’s Free Your Mind. Directed by Masa Kawamura, Aramique, and Qanta Shimuzu.
Cool song, “Red Flags,” from the Library Is On Fire’s upcoming album, Halcyon and Surrounding Areas.
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Sky Ferreira will perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on February 28, 2014.
Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld has a new EP and you can stream it right now.
U2 will perform “Ordinary Love” for the first time live at the Oscars on March 2, 2014.
Former X singer Exene Cervenka is holding a four-day garage sale that started today, getting rid of decades worth of cool stuff so she can relocate from L.A. to Austin, Texas. “I have eight guitars – nobody needs eight guitars!” she said. — Rolling Stone
Maggie Estep, an important figure in the early-’90s slam poetry movement died Wednesday, two days after suffering a heart attack. She was 50. — New York Times
Bob Dylan will perform two shows in Ireland this summer. He’ll be in Cork at Live at the Marquee on June 16, 2014, and then play in Dublin at the O2 on June 17, 2014. — The Independent
Beck will appear on “Saturday Night Live” as musical guest on March 1st, the Saturday following the release of his new album, Morning Phase. — Rolling Stone
Savages will release an EP later this year that will include the track “Fuckers.” Singer Jehnny Beth told Australia’s Tripple J radio: “We’re going to release a song that we play live called ‘Fuckers’. We recorded it live from a show did in London last fall at The Forum. It’s going to be available on vinyl as well. We’re also be covering a Suicide track called ‘Dream Baby Dream’.”
Kitten’s new “Money” video features Chloe Chaidez in bed with Ariel Pink. I reminds me of Andy Warhol’s film, “Beauty No. 2” staring Edie Sedgwick.
“Beauty No. 2”:
Prince performing “Chaos and Disorder” in Shepherd’s Bush Empire on February 9, 2014:
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