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Arcade Fire: Art-Rock Fueled by Eclecticism and Pain

Fresh Air
Published June 4, 2007 at 11:00 AM EDT

Husband-and-wife team Win Butler and Regine Chassagne lead the band Arcade Fire, an art-rock outfit that hails from Montreal.

The seven-member band, which deploys everything from piano, sax and violin to dobro, harpsichord and hurdy-gurdy, has two albums to its credit: Neon Bible and 2004's Funeral.

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