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Arcade Fire and the ‘Never Heard of It’ Grammys

“It’s not really about knowledge or information. It’s an argument, for the most part, and a faintly aggressive one — a way of insisting that what you pay attention to really does define the world.” Yes. And an interesting point to note: many who know well of the Arcade Fire, myself included, reacted in the opposite manner as they’re so ubiquitous to us (they are stadium-filling rock stars, after all). [c/o Clusterflock]

Sun 24 Apr 2011 at 10:02   ·


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You are reading Arcade Fire and the ‘Never Heard of It’ Grammys, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Arts & Culture, and was published in April 2011.

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