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Arcade Fire have today released both a website and two videos for the sublime ‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)‘ – one of the many highlights from last year’s ‘The Suburbs‘.

Adele, Arcade Fire and Manchester Orchestra have all picked up awards at the fourth annual UK Music Video Awards, which were held at the Empire, Leicester Square last night (November 8th).

Arcade Fire and The Black Keys are amongst the acts nominated for the fourth annual UK Video Music Awards.

Arcade Fire’s promo for their third album’s title track ‘The Suburbs‘ will go head-to-head with two OK Go videos, ‘All Is Not Lost‘ and ‘White Knuckles‘ for the Best International Alternative Video, while The Black Keys have been nominated in the Best Indie/Rock International Video for ‘Howlin’ For You‘.

Arcade Fire‘s highly-decorated third studio album ‘The Suburbs‘ has added the Polaris Music Prize to its long list of achievements after taking home the award at a ceremony in Toronto yesterday (September 19th).

The prize, which celebrates the best of Canadian music over the past twelve months, was awarded to Arcade Fire members Richard Parry and Jeremy Gara, the latter of which used the opportunity to offer up some words of encouragement to young musicians.

Organisers of the annual Pop Montreal event will stage a free Arcade Fire gig on September 22nd to celebrate the festival’s 10th anniversary.

The hometown show for Arcade Fire will also offer the band an opportunity to further contribute to the KANPE charity, with the first 100 people who make a donation of $200 or more to the fundraisers receiving passes to the VIP area on the day of the show.

Arcade Fire‘s much-lauded third studio album ‘The Suburbs‘ heads the list of nominees for this year’s Canadian Polaris Music Prize – their homeland’s equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize.

Folksters Timber Timbre and Toronto’s The Weeknd also feature on the shortlist, though ‘The Suburbs’, which has won countless awards and accolades including Grammys and Brits since its release last year, dominates the 2011 rundown.

Arcade Fire played their biggest ever headline UK show to date last night (June 30th), performing a hit-laden set to around 60,000 fans at London’s Hyde Park.

The show comes just under twelve months since they released third studio album ‘The Suburbs‘ and headlined the 2010 Reading/Leeds festivals, a move which caused some at the time to question their bill-topping status.

It’s hard to imagine a world without ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘. The physicist C.P. Snow once said if Einstein hadn’t locked himself away, indulged in a spot of chin-stroking and eventually conceived the General Theory of Relativity, which revolutionised the way we think about science, we’d still be waiting for that idea to occur to someone else now. In the same vein, you have to wonder that if The Beatles hadn’t locked themselves away in Abbey Road during those few fruitful months over 40 years ago, following their self-imposed exile from live duties in 1966, whether we might equally still be waiting for a band to revolutionise the face of popular music today.

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will feature on one of two new songs being released on a deluxe edition of Arcade Fire‘s recent studio album ‘The Suburbs‘.

Scenes from the Suburbs, a short film by Spike Jonze, is set for a DVD release on June 27th 2011 via Sonovox, and will include two previously unreleased exclusive tracks recorded during ‘The Suburbs‘ album session.