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Arcade Fire in New Orleans. Photo by Anton Corbijn.

Arcade Fire’s New Neighborhood: Indie rock’s biggest act is infinitely content in the Crescent City

August 30, 2017 by: Jan Ramsey

In the music video for “Electric Blue,” Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist and sometimes-frontwoman Régine Chassagne takes a stroll down Napoleon Avenue, walking, wiggling and singing her way through the aftermath of an unnamed Mardi Gras parade. While most New Orleanians will find a familiar sight in the hodgepodge of broken plastic beads, flashing police lights and clean-up crews, Arcade Fire sees something else. Namely the juxtaposition of beauty and alienation that has been a...

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