Arcade Fire Teaming With Spike Jonze on Short Film

Spike Jonze ranks among the most creative film directors in Hollywood, but he's still down to work on intriguing music video projects. According to a report on /film, Jonze will team up with Arcade Fire — whose "Wake Up" served as the stirring backdrop for Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are trailer — on a short film likely based around one of the songs on the Montreal collective's upcoming third album. The shoot will reportedly take place in Austin, Texas, and feature actors in their late-teens in a story about "friends growing apart."

While Arcade Fire would not comment on the report, MTV reports that Jonze's reps pretty much confirmed the project. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Jonze and Kanye West released a short film last year titled We Were Once a Fairytale, a strange 12-minute tale of isolation and depravity soundtracked by Kanye's 808s & Heartbreak single "See You in My Nightmares." It's unclear when Arcade Fire's collabo with Jonze will be unveiled, but count on it emerging right around the time the band release their new album in the late summer.

In addition to filming with Jonze, Arcade Fire will also return to the summer festival circuit with new songs during headlining slots at Lollapalooza, Reading and Leeds.

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Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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