Supplies! Arcade Fire’s Got Some Big News
Anything you can do I can do better: Radiohead may have had their bogus countdowns and groundbreaking news about its forthcoming album (Top of the Drudge Report, ma!), but Arcade Fire’s apparently throwing down an enormous surprise of its own this weekend at the Randall’s Island extravaganza with LCD Soundsystem, Blonde Redhead and Les Savy Fav that we’ll be attending.
So, what’s the news? All we know is that NeonBible.com has a link to a mysterious site called www.beonlineb.com that sports the above wallpaper and “Arcade Fire Presents.” Only the awesomely awesome dudes at Pitchfork seem to be in the loop, but we’re taking some guesses of our own:
- They’re giving back that poor kid’s basketball
- They’re bottling a cologne made from the sweet smell of their own success
- They’re formally seceding from Canada
- They’re announcing Montreal native and former Chicago Bulls behemoth Bill Wennington is joining the band…on ukulele
- They’re fully ready to admit that in 1972 they were the crack commando unit sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit, then promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground, where today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
So what do you think? Could we be on target? Got any thoughts? Fill us in…
Slade Sohmer
In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.
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other possible announcements (unconfirmed):
*An official apology for Celine Dion/Bryan Adams
*Powersauce Bars are great!
*Arcade Fire Reunion show with Jason Bonham on drums
*New, lower price for the iPhone
*Their support for Hilary in the Democratic primaries (she lives the closest to Williamsburg)
*Return of teh Phish, 08/08/08 at Big Cypress
*CANNONBALL!!
They’re confirming that Pitchfork is a pretentious bunch of shits.
They’re gonna perform “Keep the Car Runnin” with John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band!
Uhhhh, they need to sell more tickets for the show?
“They’re fully ready to admit that in 1972 they were the crack commando unit sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit.”
I’m serving time all for a crime I did commit – The Well and the lighthouse.
THEY DID IT.
They are cutting a check to Bruce Springsteen for the use of his melodies on their most recent album :)
while showing a screening of Eddie and the Crusiers?!
All I know is you should definitely check out Les Savy Fav who are great and put on a a very good live show.
One day away till the big announcement! Maybe it will read: Here’s the new album – the REAL new one, Neon Bible was just B-sides. Don’t worry folks THIS is the worthy follow-up to “Funeral”
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