Arcade Fire play in Santa Fe

Arcade Fire performed at Santa Fe Community Convention Center Monday, April 18.  The tickets were sold out at least a week before the date of the event.  Ticket prices averaged around $50 and $1 from the price of the ticket went to help the victims in Haiti.

Eleven microphones and eight band members

The first thing I noticed while they were setting up the stage for Arcade Fire, were the numerous microphones.  There were also an array of instruments that needed to be tuned including the unusual hurdy gurdy.  Which is like a guitar that has a crank which rotates and strums the strings continuously.

Follow the jump to read more about the concert.

Interview/Audio & Waiting for the Arcade Fire show to start

Arcade Fire played in Santa Fe at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.  Many fans lined up hours before the show and one shares his reasons for coming so early to wait in line.

Follow the jump to see a picture of the line outside of the convention center.

Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and the Strokes Headline Coachella

This year Coachella starts the weekend off on April 15 and runs through the 17^th in Indo, CA, with headliners Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and the Strokes.

As an alternative music listener, you may be wondering about Kanye West as a headliner.  Yes, he’s hip hop, but every year a prominent hip hop artist is featured in the line up.  This is very similar to Lollapalooza, who is featuring Eminem in their line up this year.  In addition to Kanye there are currently 180 bands scheduled to play at Coachella.  You will definitely find one of your favorite alternative and indie bands within the list on their website, coachella.com/event/lineup.  Their site also has links to every band’s facebook, youtube and twitter so that you can find out what they sound like.

Arcade Fire and Black Keys win Big at the Grammy’s with Alternative Albums

With Arcade Fire winning the coveted Album of the Year award, there was definitely a breakthrough for all alternative artists.  Even though thousands of people have no idea who they are or what they sound like, they broke through the glass ceiling… if one existed for alternative music.