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To: The Internet. General delivery from Arcade Fire. it’s been 6 days too long since those absurdly short teaser clips went up on Arcadefire.com (I counted 15 seconds), but since the full songs premiered today on BBC Radio 1, we (meaning us!) can finally stream them in their entirety. “The Suburbs” is sounding more like [...]

Super Bowl XLIV was totally indie. Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” was in an official NFL spot, with all of the licensing proceeds going to Partners in Health. I spent Super Bowl Sunday at Disneyland (Mickey > Football), but that commercial is pretty awesome. Almost makes me want to watch football. Almost. You can check out [...]

This is why songoftheday was invented, guys. Peter effing Gabriel’s cover of Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a Cage” (which premiered yesterday on Stereogum) will appear on his upcoming cover album, Scratch My Back (due February 15). The album is intended to inspire a cover album where the featured artists would return the favor. The [...]

So bla bla bla, right? Another “Best of the Decade” list. I can’t possibly bring myself to explain these choices in detail of any kind. I’m all detailed out for the year. I feel like I keep reading the same things about a few of these records on different sites, and no one likes when [...]

The first draft of this post, titled “My Poproks Best Songs Since 2000,” is from this past March. 8 months, 1,000 edits, and 3,000 miles later, it officially exits the abyss of blogFAIL that is My Poproks “drafts” section. Making lists is hard! I will never complain about another ‘Blank Songs of Blank’ list ever [...]

Word on the street (or Videogum) is that the new film adapation of Where the Wild Things Are is directed by Spike Jonze (who I’ve oddly already mentioned this week) and features a score by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. To make matters more incredibly awesome, a new recording of Arcade Fire’s “Wake [...]

Here’s my question: Why? Why is the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne starting a battle with Arcade Fire? Is it because Arcade Fire played after them at some festival 3 years ago (which you can read about in Win Butler’s journal entry, below), or is it a more basic jealousy stemming from the fact that with [...]

Every time I thought of something that should be on here and did a scan…it was on here. Below is Amazon.com’s 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time. PS: It’s Beatle-less, and here’s some interesting theories as to why. 1. Boy by U2 2. Birth Of The Cool (Rudy Van Geld… by Miles Davis 3. [...]

I’m starting to realize that I really love movie trailers. Not that this is a movie trailer, per se; it’s actually the commercial for the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that’s been airing since last week. I have been out of the country and didn’t see it ’til last night (I was in [...]

I love making lists more than I love sunshine. Gorilla vs. Bear brought this to my attention. It’s a list idea started by this guy to name your favorite album from each year that you’ve been alive. You can either fill this out as you would today, or as you would have then. I am [...]