February 29th, 2008
Arcade Fire Playing Free Shows For Barack Obama
Just came across this:
Early on and before most of indie rock had started showing their stripes as Obamaniacs this Democratic primary season, Win Butler took to the internet to let us know how close we all were to fucking up. In an optimistic and gentle nudge, he said:
Barack is the first candidate in my lifetime to strip some of this bullshit away, and I just hope we don’t blow this chance.
man if we miss this opportunity we don’t deserve it…how bad does it have to get?Well by Win’s measure things must be a lot better because since then “Yes We Can” happened and will.i.am single-handedly galvanized the electorate. But Butler’s no longer just blogging about the view from his windowsill anymore. This is politics in action, people: Win, Will (both U.S. born, Texans raised), Regine (dual citizen!), and Jeremy Gara (”a really nice Canadian who likes playing music and is sick of explaining […]
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