Arcade Fire Previewing New Album In Small Venues
As promised, Arcade Fire will perform their upcoming album in its entirety at a series of underplay shows.
As promised, Arcade Fire will perform their upcoming Columbia album, Pink Elephant, in its entirety at a series of underplay shows in North America over the next several weeks. The run begins April 22-23 in Mexico City and wraps May 5 in Philadelphia, four days before the arrival of the new project.
Presales will take place Thursday (April 17), with general public onsales to follow the next day. Visit the group’s web site for further information. Also newly announced is an April 27 appearance at the High Water festival in Charleston, S.C., alongside Lord Huron, Mt. Joy and Counting Crows.
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Pink Elephant is the follow-up to 2022’s WE, which topped Billboard‘s Rock and Alternative tallies and debuted at No. 6 on the overall Billboard 200. It was nominated for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy.
Its first single, “Year of the Snake,” is out now. The song notable for marking Arcade Fire recorded debuts for Win Butler on drums and Regine Chassagne on bass. The 10-track Pink Elephant, meanwhile, was recorded at Butler and Chassagne’s New Orleans-based Good News Recording Studio.
Here are Arcade Fire’s tour dates:
April 22-23: Mexico City (Metropolitan Theatre)
April 25: New Orleans (Saenger Theatre)
April 27: Charleston, S.C. (High Water Festival)
April 29-30: Montreal (Olympia)
May 1: Toronto (Allied Music Centre at Massey Hall)
May 4: Brooklyn, N.Y. (Brooklyn Paramount)
May 5: Philadelphia (The Met)
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