Arcade Fire
Arcade
Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists of
the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Will
Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, and Sarah Neufeld. Win
Butler and Régine Chassagne attended McGill University, where he pursued
religious studies and she studied jazz. Arcade Fire came to prominence with the
release of their debut album, Funeral, in 2004 to critical acclaim. The band
plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass,
xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin, and
hurdy-gurdy. Most of their instruments are taken on tour, and the
multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows.
Arcade
Fire has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year,
the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best
International Album for their third studio album, The Suburbs, released in 2010
to critical acclaim and commercial success. In earlier years they won the 2008
Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for
Alternative Album of the Year for their second studio album, Neon Bible. They
also received nominations for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for all
three of their studio albums. The band's work has also been twice named as a
short list nominee for the Polaris Music Prize in 2007 for Neon Bible and in
2011 for The Suburbs, winning the award for The Suburbs.
Origin: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres:
Indie rock
Years
active: 2001–present
Labels: Sonovox, Merge, City Slang, Spunk,
Mercury
Associated
acts: Bell Orchestre, The New International Standards, Owen Pallett, CLARK the
band
Members:
Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Jeremy Gara,
Sarah Neufeld, Tim Kingsbury
Past
members: Howard Bilerman, Josh Deu, Brendan Reed, Tim Kyle, Dane Mills, Myles
Broscoe, Martin Prete
Picture:
Song:
Concert:
Arcade Fire - Reading Festival 2010 full set
Album:
Arcade Fire - Funeral Full Album
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