Well, I seem to be able to access metabeats again, so I offer the following observations: Arcade Fire has somehow grabbed the cover of Time magazine. Inside is a whole section on the Canadian "Indie" scene. This coming after the Sunday NY Times articles seems pretty impressive. The question that remains is whether all this pproves to be the "kiss of death" to them or whether a great band like this can actually become commercially sucessfull when it gets its due exposure. I had the startling discovery last week of switching thru radio stations on the car and hearing the Arcade Fire on (you wont believe this) Chum FM .......
I suspect all these things are just abberations and the likes of Brian Adams will still rule the airwaves. Still it makes you hope.....
yours truly
the over the top optomist