Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

Win Butler from the Arcade Fire, called out for pomposity by supposed good guy Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, fired back late yesterday what's shaping up to be the Musical Beef Of March 2009. (It's at least on par with some of the great beefs of the past, like Canibus vs. LL Cool J, Canibus vs. Em...

Win Butler decided to stop stealing things from people long enough to respond to the recent attack from Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on the Arcade Fire. Seems like the dude might be a little butt-hurt. I’m really hoping for a full-blown beef here. We haven’t had one of those for a w...

Maybe Wayne Coyne thinks he can talk trash now that Oklahoma’s official rock song is a Flaming Lips jam. Then again, maybe Coyne just caught Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler stealing a basketball or cheating black people out of their music. Either way, he’s not too high on Arcade Fire the...

Wayne Coyne, it turns out, isn't impressed with impressed with the Arcade Fire: "We've played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit," he said. "Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like shit, they treated the audience like shit. They ...

In his ongoing quest to call out every asshole in the music industry, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tears into Arcade Fire for Rolling Stone: "Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like......

So, Wayne Coyne doesn't really care for the Arcade Fire, dropping some really spectacular quotes— including the bon mot "They have good tunes, but they're pricks, so fuck 'em"—into an interview with Andy Greene of Rolling Stone. More of Wayne gone wild: "I'm a fan of them on one level, b...

When I listen to Michael Zapruder’s latest solo effort (is it a solo album if you have 15 people on the album?), I get a lot of stuff. There’s some Rufus Wainwright, Arcade Fire, Vic Chesnutt, and maybe even a little Beck. Then there’s the wide range of instrumentation. Some songs ...

While I’m sure about 99.9% of More Cowbell readers are well familiar with Tapes n’ Tapes, and at least 50%+ with Solid Gold, I’m guessing not too many of you are familiar with the band Wild Light, who are the middle act for tonights great triple bill (not to mention DJ’s TRL ...

Arcade Fire will release a film documenting the planning and recording of Neon Bible with footage of the band at their Montréal studio, recording the NB promotional videos, along with live footage and clips from the road. The video, directed by Vincent Morisset (of the previous weirdo/badass Arcade...