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People.com: Coachella Festival Will Draw the Stars - Scarlett? Lea? - to the Desertupdated: Fri Apr 15 2011 18:31:00

Scarlett Johansson and Whitney Port are expected to attend the concert, featuring Arcade Fire, Kanye West and Kings of Leon

Coachella preview: Bands plan ambitious multimedia installationsupdated: Thu Apr 14 2011 09:26:00

Fans wandering through the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend will encounter an ambitious array of audiovisual installations created by bands including Arcade Fire, Animal Collective and Interpol.

Arcade Fire play surprise show in Haitiupdated: Thu Mar 31 2011 09:56:00

Fresh off their Grammy and Juno victories, Arcade Fire played a surprise show on Tuesday at the Hotel Oloffson in earthquake-battered Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

Arcade Fire upset win at Grammy Awardsupdated: Fri Feb 25 2011 06:59:00

Arcade Fire wins Album of the Year at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

Arcade Fire's manager responds to Grammy Awards conspiracy theoriesupdated: Fri Feb 25 2011 06:59:00

Arcade Fire manager Scott Rodger has responded to allegations by media mogul Steve Stoute and record industry gadfly Bob Lefsetz that the band closed out the Grammy Awards this year with a second performance because the Recording Academy knew the group would win the ceremony's final award for Album of the Year.

People.com: Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire Win Big at Grammysupdated: Mon Feb 14 2011 10:29:00

The country stars nab record and song of the year, while Arcade Fire earns album of the year

People.com: Eminem, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert to Perform at Grammy Awardsupdated: Thu Jan 13 2011 13:29:00

Arcade Fire and Cee Lo Green are among the other acts who will take the stage at the Staples Center

Rolling Stone's top five singles of 2010updated: Tue Dec 07 2010 17:54:00

5. Arcade Fire, "We Used to Wait"

Rolling Stone's top five albums of 2010updated: Tue Dec 07 2010 17:52:00

5. Jamey Johnson, "The Guitar Song" 1: What does Jamey Johnson keep under all of that hair? Songs. Nashville's gruffest and grittiest star turns out to be its most reliable traditionalist, a Music Row pro who can write a song for every emotional season. Johnson pulled out a whole slew of them -- 25, clocking in north of 105 minutes -- for his double-disc fourth album: acoustic confessions and rugged boogie blues, big weepers and grim reapers, cover tunes and novelty ditties, not to mention "California Riots" and "Playing the Part," a pair of fiercely funny, unrepentantly redneck swipes at the frou-frou blue states.

People.com: Katy Perry vs. Lady Gaga: Who Made Your Album of the Year?updated: Tue Dec 07 2010 08:28:00

Weigh in on the major Grammy nominees before the Feb. 13 ceremony in L.A.

CNNMoney: What do Apple and IBM have in common?updated: Tue Oct 12 2010 12:48:00

IBM is trading at an all-time high. That's not a misprint.

The do's and don'ts of asking someone out onlineupdated: Wed Aug 18 2010 12:07:00

Imagine, if you will, a crowded dance floor: Men and women are talking, laughing awkwardly and trying to gyrate their rhythmically challenged hips to that Phoenix song that goes "do let, do let, blah blah."

Opera singer rocks outupdated: Tue Jun 22 2010 16:59:00

Renée Fleming's new album "Dark Hope" has found the light, having earned the operatic soprano a spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart for the first time.

Lo-fi filmmaker takes stars to street levelupdated: Tue Feb 19 2008 14:24:00

The distinctive tall frame of Arcade Fire singer Win Butler scrapes against the elevator lights as seven bandmates, their instruments, a sound engineer and a cameraman stand cramped below his eyeline.

Malian Sidi Toure is newest Takeaway Show starupdated: Tue Feb 19 2008 14:24:00

A mini documentary by Vincent Moon on Sidi Toure, who claims to have sold recors in the US, but is still to receive any money.

Fortune: Question authorityupdated: Tue May 15 2007 14:36:00

As CEO of Live Nation, Michael Rapino is one of the few people in the music industry who has managed to grow revenue lately. He has done it the old-fashioned way, by domination; in this case, of th...

EW review: Say yeah! for Yeah Yeah Yeahsupdated: Wed Mar 29 2006 15:27:00

Nothing lasts forever, the latest example being the garage-rock revival that blasted off at the dawn of this decade. Although it once injected rock with an energy boost, the style now feels played out, supplanted by more touchy-feely genres like emo and grand-gesture indie bands like the Arcade Fire.

The best albums you didn't hearupdated: Mon Dec 27 2004 12:12:00

2004 was an especially fertile year for good music. As always, many deserving albums somehow stayed under the radar and off many year-end lists. Here are five albums that you should have listened to.

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