Skip to Navigation Skip to Content  Outside Lands 2011: Arcade
Fire  Although I've been listening to Arcade Fire since the end
of high school, it always seemed wrong that more people didn't
know about them. And this year, they finally got what they've
been owed for a long while: the coveted Grammy for Album of the
Year. Even after cries of "Who the F**k is Arcade Fire?!",
seemingly everyone knows their breath-taking oeuvre, all the way
back to 2004's Funeral album. Thank goodness, because every one
of their songs are made for the hugest of huge sing-alongs, and
that's exactly what Sunday's audience of thousands gave frontman
Win Butler and the gang.  "It's the last day of the festival, so
just meet us in the middle and let's all have a good time
together," said Butler, who led the eight-piece band through the
single most revelatory performance of the entire three-day fest.
He'd warmed up his iconic voice with Mavis Staples earlier that
day ("Now I can die a happy man," he said), which made for
blazing renditi