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Arcade Fire: Can you be a poet and a scumbag?

Jeremy PortnoyArts Editorials Music OpinionsNovember 7, 2022November 10, 2022

#OPINION: The shock value in the Win Butler allegations comes not in their severity, but in the earnestness associated with Arcade Fire. The band’s entire discography revolves around clinging to innocence and morality in a cruel world.

Arcade Fire dance and dabble in new sounds

Jon WinklerArtsOctober 30, 2013

Curiosity must have hit some people when they saw Arcade Fire perform for “Saturday Night Live” on Sept. 28. It was the first televised performance of Arcade Fire since they concluded the tour of their 2010 Grammy-winning tour de force “The Suburbs” and since they began a curious ad campaign behind their upcoming album. Something seemed very off: these were the faces of Arcade Fire, but no one could recall them in such a strange style.