Key band of Indie Rock- Arcade Fire

Key band of Indie Rock- Arcade Fire 

Biography and development

Arcade Fire are a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Win's younger brother Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. With two additional percussionists, Diol Edmond and Tiwill Duprate, and saxophonists Matt Bauder and Stuart Bogie.

Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Win Butler and Josh Deu,the band released a self-titled EP in 2003 and reissued it in 2005. The band recorded their proper debut, Funeral in 2005, it was recorded after several band members had experienced the deaths of loved ones, with many songs which describe their emotions in their previous albums. The album's most famous track is "Wake Up," which was used in a number of important events.

The album was critically and commercially acclaimed. It appeared on many top ten album lists for 2004 and 2005 (due to delayed international releases), the MTV in 2005 Review crowned it the album of the year.

By November 2005, Funeral had gone gold in both Canada and the UK, and sold over half a million copies worldwide,a very large number for an independent release with minimal television or radio exposure.

A track officially released from new album Neon Bible was "Intervention" in December 2006, the proceeds from this release were dedicated to Partners in Health. The album gained much critical acclaim however the band was proclaimed “the most exciting act on the earth” by British music magazine “Q”, “one of the five best albums of 2007” by “Paste” and “Trouser Press” ranked Neon Bible "among the best indie rock recordings of all time."

Dedicated to Butlers' maternal grandfather, Alvino Rey, who was an amateur radio operator, the logo used by the band from this time was a variation of that used by the American Radio Relay League.
Arcade Fire performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011. The band was nominated for Grammy Awards in three categories: Album of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and Best Alternative Music Album.

Arcade Fire also recorded a song for The Hunger Games soundtrack called "Abraham's Daughter" in 2012. The song is featured in the movies end credits. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.

At the 2014 Juno Awards, “Reflektor” won Album of the Year and Alternative (indie rock)  Album of the Year. The album was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. A documentary film called The Reflektor Tapes, about the making of the album, has been selected to be shown at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.