Arcade Fire, promoting their new album Neon Bible, played Radio City Music Hall last week to a crowd that seemed on the verge of religious ecstacy. The 9-piece band was astounding, theatrical, energetic, and apocolyptic, and filled the enormous ampitheater with its darkly beautiful songs that warn that the world is heading into harrowing times and beg us all to do something about it.
Their new album, Neon Bible, was described as such by Pitchfork Media: "While the group's us-against-the-world stance occasionally comes off as slightly self-righteous or reactionary, their scathingly critical perspective gives weight and direction to their nervy earnestness."
Apparently putting some money where his muic is, singer Win Butler announced at Radio City that a dollar for every ticket sold on this year's tour goes toward fighting AIDS in Haiti, the country most devastated by the disease in this hemisphere. More than 6% of adults in Haiti are HIV positive.
Arcade Fire's donation is going to Partners in Health, a global, community-based, pioneering force in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the world's top 3 most deadliest infectious diseases. Partners in Health provides medical training, education, and free antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients.
Régine Chassagne, Arcade Fire's co-founding member and wife to Butler, is from a family of Haitian refugees who escaped to Canada during the reign of Baby Doc Duvalier.
LINK (Partners in Health)
LINK (Haiti Innovations)
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