Taking a cue from cryptic Radiohead, Arcade Fire has posted an abstract message to fans regarding an online event this Saturday. The site for their 2007 album Neon Bible now has a pore-magnified picture of a closed eye. When your cursor rolls over the eyelid, it opens to reveal a video of the eye opening (with eerily good eye contact) and the message, “Be oNline B October 6th.” The linked beonlineb.com doesn’t reveal much more — it just shows a photographic grid of fourteen closed eyes with the repeated message of “October 6th, October 6th, October 6th.”
Arcade Fire will be performing with LCD Soundsystem on October 6th on New York’s Randall’s Island — the last performance of their joint tour, and while the band’s attempt at the mysterious is no Rainbow-level cryptography, but it has fans of the Canadian indie collective guessing about their post-trek plans. Blog crawlers have predicted everything from a LCD remix of Neon Bible to a streaming EP to an encore performed on a giant float in the East River. Considering “Be online B” rescrambled spells Neon Bible, we predict a remix.


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