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Arcade Fire Wows Coachella Audience With Light Show

Big Audio Dynamite, Mumford and Sons and Cage the Elephant were among the other highlights of day 2 of the music festival.

Six years after breaking through as a mid-afternoon buzz band in a 2005 performance widely (and rightly) heralded as the best Coachella set ever, Arcade Fire's headlining set on Saturday night at this year's Coachella proved that history can, indeed, repeat itself. That's because last night the band once again delivered an hour-and-a-half masterwork, capitalizing on the success of their Album-of-the-Year Grammy-winning record “The Suburbs.” Clearly, as a headliner, they couldn't solely coast on the kind of pure energy that was their calling card as a younger band anymore -- in fact, to step it up next level, they had to have balls.