New tracks by Arcade Fire - who announce five shows in NY that sell out in five minutes. The first tickets to get sold on ebay for a thousand dollars each (making one wonder who the hell likes the band who has $1000 to blow)?

Here's Black Mirror the first single, directly from the band.

If you search hard enough on the Internet you'll also find "Intervention" and "Black Wave / Bad Vibrations".



Well then they've also been doing odd things in preparation for their March 6th album release such as an informerical on youtube and a toll free number that's been teasing us with songs and now on occassion members of the band are picking up the phone.

The band have kindly asked people to donate money to Partners In Health a not for profit organization that brings health care and poverty relief to impacted countries in exchange for the fact that there's a lot of downloaded music out there and they're fine with that. They're just asking your conscience to help out a little if you can.

One of the first blog posts I ever made was after seeing their first ever NY show; which I went into cold and come out a lunatic convert. A few weeks later I found myself following them up the west coast for three shows. I really believe in them that much.