Tonight, Arcade Fire will stream their concert at Madison Square Garden to likely millions of music fans. The rock critic favorites are not the first to stream a live concert live, but the show tonight could be one of the biggest live online webcasts in history. Arcade Fire will be the first to feature on the YouTube/VEVO concert web series “Unstaged”. The show is sponsored by American Express and will be directed by Oscar-nominated director Terry Gilliam. I’ve never seen a live online concert that has created as much excitement as tonight’s. I’ve seen tons of ads while surfing the web for the concert, and “Arcade Fire” has been trending consistently on Twitter for the past three days. The band’s new album, The Suburbs, was streaming live all day on Monday for free on NPR’s web series First Listen. Tonight’s show could be a big step for both Arcade Fire and for the future of concert webcasts.
