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Arcade Fire's Win Butler: 'We're one of the best rock bands on Earth now'

Talk to the members of Arcade Fire and invariably they'll tell you they've always been playing looking at the long view. For the ever-popular Montreal-based sextet, what people think of them now is of little consequence. Rather, how the band is viewed in the future and whether its music has staying power, will be the true test.

"In my mind everyone who is ultimately going to listen to our band has not been born yet," lead singer Win Butler says via phone from Edmonton, Alberta, a few

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