Arcade Fire to Perform on THE COLBERT REPORT, 10/21

By: Oct. 16, 2013
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Following their recent performance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Canadian Rock band Arcade Fire is now set to rock THE COLBERT REPORT.

According to Variety, the band will be the featured musical guest on next Monday's episode ahead of the release of their upcoming album 'Reflektor,' out Oct. 29.

Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. The band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral.

Arcade Fire has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year (they hold the distinction of Being the only musical group to have won their first and only Grammy in that category), the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album for their third studio album, The Suburbs, released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success.[2] In earlier years they won the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year for their second studio album, Neon Bible. They also received nominations for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for all three of their studio albums. The band's work has also been twice named as a short list nominee for the Polaris Music Prize in 2007 for Neon Bible and in 2011 forThe Suburbs, winning the award for The Suburbs. In 2013, Arcade Fire announced their fourth album Reflektor.



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