Stay Together , the band’s sixth studio album, was released on 7 October 2016.
The second single, “Hole In My Soul” was released 18 August 2016
On July 20, 2016, the band posted on their official Twitter and Facebook pages a video with the piano intro from ” Welcome to the Black Parade “, ending with a cryptic date, “9/23/16”. The video was also published on the band’s YouTube channel with the video titled “MCRX”. This…
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On July 19, Tim Kingsbury told CBC that the band’s upcoming fifth album would be out in 2017.
On July 5, the band played their first complete full-band concert in two years in Barcelona, Spain as a warm up for their upcoming summer festival dates in Canada, Portugal, Spain and USA.
In July 2016, the band announced that guitarist Nick McCarthy would not be involved in the recording and touring of their next album, in order to concentrate on his family and other musical interests.
On June 17, Will Butler hosted a Reddit AMA , where he answered fan questions about the next Arcade Fire album. He stated that the new record might be released in spring 2017 and that the band had ‘no definite schedule though. It’ll be done when it’s done.’
The first single from the album, ” Parachute “, was released on 14 June 2016.
On May 25, 2016, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne performed a surprise set outside the Louvre which included a new song. The pair were invited by the French street artist JR to DJ at the launch of his new exhibition titled JR Au Louvre , but the two decided to…
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On February 7, 2016, the band opened for Metallica at a Super Bowl eve concert at AT&T Park .