The Arcade Fire

One of the most celebrated new bands of 2004, the Arcade Fire came out of Montreal's vibrant music scene with a melancholic, cinematic sound equally redolent of '80s heroes like the Cure and Echo & the Bunnymen and latter-day orchestral-rockers Mercury Rev. Frontman Win Butler, grandson of famed steel guitarist/bandleader Alvino Rey, filled the band's acclaimed debut with sad songs full of yearning sentiments and memorable melodies, fleshed out with widescreen arrangements that feature everything from violin to glockenspiel.

• All Night Radio
• Electric Music AKA
• Explosions In The Sky
• Frausdots
• Godspeed You Black Emperor
• Interpol
• Stars
• The Comas
• The Dears
• The Helio Sequence
• The Hidden Cameras
• The Polyphonic Spree
• The Stills
• Wheat

• Alvino Rey & His Orchestra
• Bjork
• Bruce Springsteen
• Echo & The Bunnymen
• Mercury Rev
• Neil Young
• New Order
• Radiohead
• Spiritualized
• The Beach Boys
• The Beatles
• The Cure
• The Flaming Lips
• The Pixies
• The Smiths

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