Posts Tagged ‘Arcade Fire’

  • Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne and Owen Pallett cover Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins”

    Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne and Owen Pallett cover Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins”

    September 12th, 2011 | Uncategorized | tapedekel | No Comments

    Add Michael Cooper of 77 Admiral Rd as a person you should get to know. A TIFF event organized by Paul Haggis’ Artists for Peace and Justice at Mr. Cooper’s (very lovely) home this week featured performances by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder (in town for his band’s Cameron Crowe directed doc ‘Pearl Jam 20′ as well as two Neil Young-guesting shows at the ACC) and Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne (in town because…she loves her some glam?). At some point, the duo, along with AF buddy and man-about-town Owen Pallett, turned their tuneful attention to Bruce Springsteen’s poignant ‘My City in Ruins.’

    Apropos of 9/11′s 10 year anniversary, here’s Springsteen and friends performing the same song nearly a decade ago at a WTC Benefit.

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  • State of the Confederation: Part 2

    State of the Confederation: Part 2

    October 6th, 2010 | Articles, Music | tapedekel | No Comments

    Canadian indie music was a fledgling concern at the turn of the century, forcing bands like Metric and the Stills to leave their native land. But the postmillennial rise of music blogs and file-sharing suddenly allowed smaller-market bands to reach big audiences.

    This was best exemplified by the Canada’s indie rock collectives: Vancouver’s New Pornographers, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene and Montreal’s Arcade Fire. Though the Pornos broke through first, it was BSS and Arcade Fire — with their sprawling offshoots, side-projects and associated artists — that truly took Canadian indie music to the world.

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