In 2007, the New Yorker ran an essay about how white indie rock had come to ignore the black musical tradition, as exemplified through Arcade Fire's culturally dominant yet completely grooveless songs ...

Artists "It was the best-sounding piece of kit ever – but they were so up themselves": Trevor Horn on the pioneering synth that defined the sound of Welcome to the Pleasuredome Tech "It's the most ...

Classic arcade games didn’t really have music. Unless it merited a spot on Buckner & Garcia’s Pac-Man Fever, the best a machine before the videogame crash of 1983 could hope for was two or three ...

City Connection announced today that they will be releasing two year’s worth of soundtracks for classic SNK arcade games, split into collections with one releasing each month for the next 24 months.

The similarities are enough to make you wonder if this isn’t another “fake news”-style story to promote Arcade Fire’s new album. The melody to Arcade Fire’s hit single and title track of its ...

What does any piece of music mean? Music is the most untethered and abstract of art forms. Even a song has meanings or hints of meanings that go far beyond the words, and that change every time it is ...

At their best, Dan's polemics on music, sport (and anything else that caught his eye) sparked debate and divided opinion; so much so, that I often joked with him that he was a professional troll. Some ...

One of the biggest songs on Arcade Fire's new record bears a striking similarity to a track released in 2014 by Cantabrian-Spanish band Templeton - and we've spoken to them about it. By now you've ...

The band insist its not a change of direction as they've always been influenced by the Swedish quartet MUCH has been made of Arcade Fire finally channelling their inner ABBA. The earworm lead track on ...

The retro video game plugins just keep on coming. SampleScience is the latest company to put a coin in the slot, releasing 80s Arcade Sounds. This emulates not only the Yamaha soundchip that was used ...