Because I'm seeing Arcade Fire tonight in Montréal!!!
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire + Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis = Happy Holidays
Also featuring Toby Maguire. Also Samuel L. Jackson. Also joy.
music video of the day: "Afterlife" by Arcade Fire
a) Because it was directed by the oh so talented Emily Kai Bock who also directed videos for Grimes's "Oblivion" (one of my favs) and the Solange jam "Lovers In The Parking Lot" !
b) Because I just got tickets to see them August 30th in Montreal. I'm kind of a huge fan?
music video of the day: "Afterlife" by Arcade Fire
From the first ever YouTube Music Awards, featuring Greta Gerwig directed by Spike Jonze.
Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = I will always end up crying it just happens. Reflektears.
music video of the day: the entire Reflektor album stream by Arcade Fire
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music video of the (yester)day: "Here Comes The Night Time" by Arcade Fire
Saturday night Arcade Fire were on SNL and it was awesome, but you what's even better? The 30 minute concert special NBC aired after directed by Roman Coppola. Not only does it feature new songs off of their upcoming album Reflektor, there's also cameos by James Franco, Rainn Wilson, Bono, Ben Stiller, Michael Cera, Bill Hader, Zach Galifianakis, Eric Wareheim, Jason Schwartzman, and Aziz Ansari. Holy shit right? Yeah. It's just incredible. Very very envious of everyone who made it in to this show. My goodness. Sorry don't mind me just in an Arcade Fire daze. So good. I'm so excited for this record. Can you tell?
music video of the day: "Reflektor" by Arcade Fire
Just incase you're not already obsessed.
www.thereflektors.com
www.justareflektor.com/
The album comes out October 29th.
James Murphy produced it.
I simply cannot wait.
ps. iPhone piñata
music video of the (yesterday and to)day: "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" by Arcade Fire
Because the power has been out and my internet has been down for the past two days.
Live: Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble at the Academy of Lions
Friday March 1st, the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places and Music in the Barns came together to celebrate the work of three Canadian contemporary composers. Nestled into the alt gym/health cafe/venue Academy of Lions, we popped over to class up our weekend and soak in some strings. Both the opening piece (Rose Botlon’s The Coming of Sobs for String Quartet) and closing (Scott Godin’s “all that is solid melts into air” for String Quintet) were stunning in their own right, but it was Richard Reed Parry’s Quartet for Heart and Breath that had us melting.
Parry, who many may know as the dashing tall ginger from Arcade Fire, has written a piece in which the performers literally breathe new life into it each time. While all of the notes and cues are written in the score, the composition’s rhythms and tempos are based upon the quartet’s breath and heartbeat. With each musician wearing a stethoscope (like a DJ wears headphones), the quartet quite frankly listens to their heart. Gushy beautiful stuff right? Yeah. We totally agree.