After an epic show at Aarons Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA where the band asked the audience to dress in costumes, Arcade Fire showed up unannounced at the after party at The Masquerade in ATL. Win Butler DJd the party and danced in the crowd, and he drank Sweetwater like a man of the people. Then a small core group of AF took the stage and began covering The Ramones. I absolutely went insane as they played a amazingly razor sharp cover of "I Dont Wanna Go Down To The Basement" I was in heaven but it only got better as the next song was a cover of "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones my very favorite band ever. Everyone was packed tight into a great sounding room with just a few hundred people with a band that had rocked an amphitheater hours earlier bit had no intention of calling it an early night. The band blazed through CCR and punk covers but the highlight came in the last song they played The moat awesome cover of Helter Skelter I ever heard! Musical bliss, Win DJd again until the earl morning hours and we danced and new thay we had experienced something magical more than just a show a transcendent musical and spiritual nirvana that we would all remember for the rest of our lives. Props to Arcade Fire a band at a level they could be drinking champagne in the back of Limos but instead they are partying with their fans at small awesome venues like The Masquerade. They believe, as do I, that the power of music can truly set you free and that wild night, it did.

by: Joshua S