Arcade Fire's The Suburbs: cd, shows, webcast

It's a big, big week for indie superstars (not the contradiction in terms that once was) Arcade Fire. Saturday night they headline the Osheaga Festival in their hometown of Montreal, Sunday night in Boston, Monday in Phillie, Tuesday their new, excellent cd "The Suburbs" is released and then Wednesday and Thursday they're at Madison Square Garden. The Thursday night show is to be streamed live on the web, with filming directed by Terry Gilliam. Viewers will have a chance to pick preferred camera angles and other cool interactive options.

I'll be at Sunday's show. Anybody else seeing them this week?
Webcast directed by Terry Gilliam

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I think you might get to send in pics of your own suburbs (if you have a suburb) to be shown onstage.

I'm a little too excited to see them. Every other time they've passed through I have been out of town.

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17 songs, leaned heavily on The Suburbs material. Was glad my friend made me a leaked copy because I would have been a bit lost if I hadn't been playing the album non-stop since Wednesday. (I'll buy the real thing when it's released on Tuesday, although it was on sale at the show.)

During "No Cars Go" if I were required to ask which Muppet each band member resembled, it would have been 8 Animals, no question.

There will be a time later in the tour when the whole thing will be like "Wake Up," which was sublime.

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Never heard of them but I am listening to the CD on NPR and I like most of what I have heard so far.

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