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February 14, 2010

Suburban Triumph

"Rather then bringing back old styles and sounds, their goal is to make old structures of feeling signify anew. " Robert Christgau wrote that last summer about indie rockers  Arcade Fire and their album The Suburbs. Sunday night the record picked up the Grammy for Album of the Year.  In "Maturity for Modern Kids"  Robert Christgau gives his take on why this "exceptionally principled" Montreal band is also capable of getting a jaded crowd to reach for the sky. 

 

Click here to read Robert Christgau's column in full.

Daybook

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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