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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.

Arcade Fire played a surprise 45-minute show at Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson, located on the island’s capital Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday night (March 29th), reports Rolling Stone.

The slow death of physical singles continues today with the news Mercury Records, one of the biggest commercial labels home to big selling rock acts such as U2, The Killers and Arcade Fire, will now only produce physical singles on ‘rare occasions’, and is to instead rely almost exclusively on downloads for the promotion of its albums.

Arcade Fire, Pulp and PJ Harvey lead the impressive list of acts confirmed for this year’s Electric Picnic festival, which will take place between September 2nd-4th in County Laois, Ireland.

Daniel Johansson and Jaokim Sveningsson are two guys who make music. They do this together, and they call it Friska Viljor (call it ‘strong willed’ if you’re English). Following the trail of adoration from their last UK release, their latest album ‘The Beginning of the Beginning of the End‘ is all set to get sailin’ out to your ears come April, and in light of this, clear some space in your audio harbour for a slice of Swedish power-pop. Why? Because it’s awesome.