In 2014, the band recorded eleven tracks at The Sonic Temple studio in Halifax. That year, they also performed on a moving streetcar at the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.
On December 10, 2014, Hawk Nelson released the first single off an upcoming album, “Drops In the Ocean” via YouTube and made available on iTunes January 13. The album, Diamonds was announced on January 21. Diamonds is Jonathan Steingard’s second album as lead vocalist for the band and first for…
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McKenzie said in 2014 that he “fired all the Americans” in the band, and returned to a full Canadian lineup. Despite that claim, Aspy Luison is from Cambre , Galicia , Spain .
On April 7, 2014, Arkells released the first track, “Never Thought That This Would Happen”, from their third album, which was produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, The Kooks, M83). One month later, on May 13, the band released the album’s first single “Come to Light”, and confirmed the title of…
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On May 26, 2014, the band was returning home after concluding a US tour at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma. While passing through a construction zone along Interstate 70 in Indiana, the band’s pick-up truck, driven by drummer Johnny Fenton, struck two other vehicles and crashed into a ditch.…
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Saint Alvia played their final show on 7 December 2013.
Arcade Fire performed live at the YouTube Music Awards on November 3, 2013.
Arcade Fire were the musical guest on the 39th-season premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 28, 2013.
They also appeared in a half-hour special on NBC , Arcade Fire in Here Comes the Night Time , that aired immediately after SNL .
In September 2013, Arcade Fire released a version of the 1980 hit single ” Games Without Frontiers ” for the Peter Gabriel tribute album And I’ll Scratch Yours .