Video: Arcade Fire: "Ready to Start"

The band gives the sort of live performance ass-kicking that only they can
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Arcade Fire are in total world-conqueror mode these days-- hitting number one with their BNM'ed new album The Suburbs, reducing Jon Stewart to a pile of goo, and headlining massive venues everywhere they go. (The Suburbs is currently sitting pretty at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 52,000 copies in its second week.)

The artfully shot black-and-white new video for the Suburbs jam "Ready to Start" focuses on the band at work in one of those huge venues, giving the band's rampaging, huger-than-life live show the cinematic treatment it demands. Watch it below, via Some Kind of Awesome.