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CALGARY HERALD Thursday, February 8, 2007 C7 ENTERTAINMENT Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Country Hard Rock Alternative Current This week National Last week This week National Last week This week National Last week This week National This week National Artist Artist Artist Artist Shins Wincing The Night A way Gwen Stefan! Sweet Escape John Mayer Continuum Tray How To Save A Life Last week 1 2 4 6 5 9 2 Rascal Flatts 1 Me My Gang I Carrie Underwood 2 Some Hearts 4 Keith Urban 3 love Pain The Whole Crazy Thing 3 Dixie Chicks A Taking The Long Way 7 Johnny Cash Legend Of Johnny Cash 5 Johnny Cash Forever Johnny Cash 6 Various Artists Best Of Country Hits 2007 II Keith Urban Be Here Last Artist week Daughtry 1 Daughtry Nickelback 4 All The Right Reasons Red Hot Chili Peppers 6 Stadium Arcadium Billy Talent 2 Billy Talent II Evanescence 5 Open Door Rise Against 3 Sufferer The Witness Three Days Grace 7 One-X Incubus 8 Light Grenades Stone Sour Come What (Ever) May ACDC 9 Sack In Black 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 1 4 6 5 7 13 16 3 9 Norah Jones Not Too Late Grammy Nominees 2007 Grammy Nominees Shins Wincing The Night Away Nelly Furtado Loose Justin Timberlake FuturesexLovesounds Madonna Confessions Tour Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape John Mayer Continuum Fray How To Save A Life Akon Konvicted Justin Timberlake FuturesexLovesounds Akon Konvicted Corlnne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Various Artists Eminem Presents: The RE-UP Beyonce B'Day Dreamgirls Soundtrack Christina Aguilera Sack To Basics Various Artists 15 Years on Death Row Nas Hip Hop Is Dead Snoop Dogg Blue Carpet Treatment 6 7 9 10 Daughtry Daughtry U2 U218 Singles My Chemical Romance The Black Parade Snow Patrol Eyes Open Various Artists Eminem Presents The RE-UP Nickelback All The Right Reasons 12 10 15 20 12 6 Rascal Flatts Feels Like Today Taylor Swift TaylorSwift 10 10 10 10 10 10 MUSIC Arcade Fire blazes back Vv ft John Kenney, Can West News Service Richard Parry, left, and Win Butler of the Arcade Fire in Montreal. Shopping starts here. Let the Calgary Herald be your research tool for the best sales and specials in Calgary. Our online site puts the paper's ads at your fingertips enhanced and categorized to help you find the retailer, product or service you want. Easy to browse, search and print View ads from past week Maps and directions Links to company web sites jobs 1 careers 1 advice 1 re fun! 4 WE mmmm jobs I careers advice 1 3 jobs I careers 1 advice El X- tTirV.CTlPgliiBl.H trrrirrrrirfTrfirrn I calgaryherald.comshoppinq jobs -n- -r- Calgary jir.

Herald (5) tpgHp I Mold THIS WEEK AT THE ZOO gfgM ticket CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI The Canadian Press MONTREAL Some spent hours lined up in bone-chilling temperatures. Others resorted to ticket scalpers or called in favours from well-connected friends. In the end, it was well worth the effort for about 650 euphoric Arcade Fire fans who jammed a century-old brick building to witness the long-awaited homecoming of the indie rock supergroup. "Thank you for coming," boyish front man Win Butler said simply after opening Tuesday's show with a grin and two new songs from the band's upcoming album, Neon Bible. "We can't tell you how good it is to be here." With barely enough room for Butler, his cohorts and their collection of string, brass and percussion instruments onstage, the group unleashed a wall of sound for their enraptured audience.

Next to Butler (who sported a new, short haircut), wife Regine Chassagne kept up the ecstatic mood with Bjork-like shrieks and the drone of a custom-made hurdy-gurdy, steadily turning a crank on the unorthodox string instrument for the propulsive Keep the Car Running, from the new disc. The intimate show was the first of five Montreal concerts at the city's Ukrainian Federation to preview material from Neon Bible, which has driven the band's followers into a frenzy of anticipation ahead of its March 6 release. Tickets were snapped up less than five minutes after they went on sale for $25 in December, forcing desperate fans to turn to resellers who offered seats for upwards of $300 a pair. Another 50 tickets made available at noon Tuesday had people lining up as early as 3 a.m. Trixie Dumont raised $1,800 for charity by selling a pair of tickets donated by the concert promoter for each of the five nights.

Dumont, who gave the proceeds to a local mission where she volunteers, said she had buyers from Nova Scotia and British Columbia, as well as a high bid of more than $400 for one pair. The chance to catch Arcade Fire at a small venue may never come again, he said, given the worldwide clamour that has been steadily building since their 2004 debut album Funeral Meliza Ash, a 26-year-old photographer, afterwards declared the show the best she's ever seen. "There was like a magic feeling," Ash said. "It was like everybody was in love for the time of their show. Everybody was looking at everybody, everybody was smiling.

It was wonderful." Music watcher Alan Cross predicted a big year for the homegrown heroes, whose expansive anthems have won high-profile fans including Coldplay, U2 and David Bowie. He noted that few other big rock acts have albums in the pipe, paving the way for another year of accolades for Arcade Fire. "The timing is right, in the sense that all the superstar acts have disappeared," Cross, host of the syndicated radio show The Ongoing History of New Music, said in an interview from Toronto. "It's there for the taking. They've got no Coldplay to go up against, you know, U2, Green Day, they're all away.

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