“Take your mind off me,” pleads Win Butler on the title track of Arcade’s Fire seventh album, Pink Elephant. He wishes. With a tone of fragile hopelessness, Butler and his Canadian-US ensemble grind ...

The authenticity springs in part from the quality of the songs being recorded by the fictional band on stage, which were ...

“‘Don‘t think of a pink elephant!’ is an impossible instruction,” psychologist Janice Morse and philosopher Carl Mitcham wrote in a 2002 International Journal of Qualitative Methods article, “for once ...

In 2004, Arcade Fire was, according to singer and guitarist Win Butler, “the flavor of the month.” Many bands emerge with great hype, but the frenzy surrounding Arcade Fire was something different.