In December 2012, the band’s manager Scott Rodger confirmed that Arcade Fire was in the studio working with regular producer of the band Markus Dravs and James Murphy , frontman of LCD Soundsystem .
The band released “Kettling” on 12 November 2012
The band released two songs each month for five months from the Conventional Weapons sessions , starting in October 2012
According to the October 2012 issue of Q Magazine , Frank Iero reported early sessions for MCR’s next album with the new drummer Jarrod Alexander were progressing well.
In September 2012, it was announced that the bass guitarist Archis Tiku would be taking time away from touring, to be covered by Paul Rafferty of Hot Club de Paris .
In September 2012, the band announced a new project titled Conventional Weapons .
which was released on 20 August 2012, after being made available to stream in its entirety for over a week preceding release.
Bloc Party released ” Octopus ” that July and later released another single entitled “Day Four”.
and on 30 June they headlined Rock Werchter festival in Belgium.
On 29 June, they played at Main Square Festival in Arras, France,