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Topic: arcade fire

The Psychedelic Furs; Depeche Mode; Echo & the Bunnymen (Legacy/Sire)

1987: The year alt-rock broke

Annie Zaleski
Michael Stipe; Bono (AP/Getty/Salon)

R.E.M. versus U2

Annie Zaleski
Arcade Fire performs onstage. (AP/Dawn Fletcher-Park)

Arcade Fire too slick by half?

Max Cea
(Getty/Mark Metcalfe/Sarah Kerver/Columbia Records/RCA/Republic Records)

The 25 best new summer albums

Annie Zaleski
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Will Butler (Merge Records/Self-portrait)

Will Butler's going solo

Melissa Locker
Arcade Fire (screenshot/YouTube Nigel Thompson)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray
Merge Records turns 25 (screenshot)

Sarah Gray
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Owen Pallett (Peter Juhl, courtesy of the artist)

How to save the creative class

Sarah Gray
Wayne Coyne (AP/Evan Agostini)

Wayne Coyne has gone mad

Eric R. Danton

The Weekly Feed
Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Cobain (Reuters/Fred Prouser/AP/Mark J.Terrill)

Broadway goes indie rock!

Emily VanDerWerff
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Prachi Gupta
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