Tag Archives: Arcade Fire

Feist Holograms And Arcade Fire Babies, Spinner RIP Trivia

Feist and the Holograms

Feist and the Holograms

Feist recently performed simultaneously in three cities in hologram form. Also, Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire gave birth to a baby boy last week.

While these two news stories were both of tremendous interest to the indie Can-rock gossip community, they have a dubious distinction as well: they’re the last two stories ever published on the now suddenly-dormant Spinner website. Yeah, it’s true. AOL Music very promptly shut down the site on Friday.

So now I’m the answer to a trivia question nobody will ever ask, “Who wrote the last story ever on Spinner?”

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Polaris People For The Week Of April 19 (Feist! Arcade Fire! Ron Sexsmith!)

Feist

Feist

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

In this one we find out about a big free Feist show, learn more about Arcade Fire‘s new album and watch as Ron Sexsmith covers Kim Mitchell (technically Max Webster).

To read the column, go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of March 22 (YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN! Drake! Arcade Fire!)

YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN

YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

This week we get a hint at YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN‘s next project, learn about how awesome Drake is, and find out where Arcade Fire have been.

To read the column, go here.

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This Week In Music History (February 10 – 16)

Who is Arcade Fire?

Who is Arcade Fire?

My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

In this installment we revisit two great moments — the debut of Rebecca Black‘s “Friday” and the “Who is Arcade Fire?” meme — as well as find an excuse to mention Gino Vannelli.

To find out why and to read a bunch of other stuff that made music history, click here.

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Spinner News Pack: Arcade Fire, Skrillex, Stars & More

Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire

Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:

Arcade Fire played a secret show in Montreal.

Skrillex makes a video game about himself.

Stars talk about their “Backlines” video… on video.

Danger Bees get killed by a bunch of children.

Kid Koala explains his “8-Bit Blues” video… on video.

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