New York, NY – February 26, 2007 – Beginning today Monday, February 26th NME.com will host the worldwide debut of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible. The highly anticipated album will be available for streaming in its entirety exclusively at NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win. for one week before it is released in the UK on March 5th and the US on March 6th.
Recorded in a church outside Montreal, Neon Bible, the follow up to Arcade Fire’s 2004 breakthrough Funeral, finds the band taking their distinctive sound to new places. Featuring contributions from Martin Wenk and Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, Wolf Parade’s Hadjii Bakara and a Hungarian military choir among many others, Neon Bible has been described by lead vocalist Win Butler as being “about the way culture and religion intersect.”
"This is another world first for NME.COM,” says Ben Perreau, Editor of NME.com. “Arcade Fire are one of the most exciting bands on the planet. I'm delighted that our community of music fans will be the very first to hear the highly-anticipated album."
NME.com is the online destination for the iconic British music weekly. While the magazine is the authority on music for fans every week, NME.com is the place they visit to experience the music. NME.com has earned worldwide respect for its rock music news and features, which are updated around the clock and has also been responsible for securing world exclusive first listens of new albums by U2, Coldplay, Kanye West, Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones.
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Since NME.com launched in 1996 as a pioneer it has grown to become Europe’s biggest and most popular specialist music website with all the best news, reviews and new music available to music fans.
An award-winning site that garners 19 million page impressions each month and 1.6 million unique users across the globe*, NME.com is the first port of call for music fans the world over. Famous for its ground-breaking music news, breadth of reviews and in-depth features, NME.com is the digital archive of the NME, with over 15,000 news stories, reviews and features in its database.
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Recorded in a church outside Montreal, Neon Bible, the follow up to Arcade Fire’s 2004 breakthrough Funeral, finds the band taking their distinctive sound to new places. Featuring contributions from Martin Wenk and Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, Wolf Parade’s Hadjii Bakara and a Hungarian military choir among many others, Neon Bible has been described by lead vocalist Win Butler as being “about the way culture and religion intersect.”
"This is another world first for NME.COM,” says Ben Perreau, Editor of NME.com. “Arcade Fire are one of the most exciting bands on the planet. I'm delighted that our community of music fans will be the very first to hear the highly-anticipated album."
NME.com is the online destination for the iconic British music weekly. While the magazine is the authority on music for fans every week, NME.com is the place they visit to experience the music. NME.com has earned worldwide respect for its rock music news and features, which are updated around the clock and has also been responsible for securing world exclusive first listens of new albums by U2, Coldplay, Kanye West, Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones.
About NME.COM:
Since NME.com launched in 1996 as a pioneer it has grown to become Europe’s biggest and most popular specialist music website with all the best news, reviews and new music available to music fans.
An award-winning site that garners 19 million page impressions each month and 1.6 million unique users across the globe*, NME.com is the first port of call for music fans the world over. Famous for its ground-breaking music news, breadth of reviews and in-depth features, NME.com is the digital archive of the NME, with over 15,000 news stories, reviews and features in its database.
NME.COM - first for music news.
*Source: Alexa
