“We know a place where no planes go / We know a place where no ships go / No cars go, no cars go… Us kids know / No cars go”—from “No Cars Go” It must be hard, even futile, for any indie-rock band to ...

When John Kennedy Toole wrote his first novel The Neon Bible in 1954 at the age of 16, the notion of a glowing scripture was particularly provocative. There was the juxtaposition of ancient text and ...

So Arcade Fire bought an old church outside Montreal and converted it into a studio, then spent much of 2006 melding haunting, religion-inspired lyrics with noises joyful enough to ward off any demons ...

And so this week comes the release of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible (Merge). There are certain things, in certain circles, that one had better talk around—things to gesture at, perhaps, or drop in archly ...