As Canadian alt-rockers The Arcade Fire [ tickets ] get ready for the March release of their new album, "Neon Bible," the band has released a couple of the disc's tracks via iTunes, and has added a slate of new shows for next month.

The group, already booked for a five-night run starting Feb. 6 in Montreal, will also tackle a five-show outing in New York, beginning Feb. 13. A similar run is set to take place in London starting in late January. The group's full itinerary is available at its website.

"Neon Bible," tentatively scheduled for a March release, is the follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed 2004 debut, "Funeral."

The group is self-producing the effort, according to nominal frontman Win Butler, in a recent posting on the band's website. "After trying to decide if we should work with any producers we kind of realized that we already know how we want things to sound so we should just run after that sound as fast as [we] can and not rely on someone else to guide the good ship Arcade Fire."

Butler also mentioned in the posting that the group is working with engineers Scott Colburn and Marcus Dravs on the set.

Two songs from the new disc, "Black Wave/Bad Intentions" and "Interventions," hit the online iTunes music service in late December. Although the release of "Inteventions" was intentional, Butler said in another post on the group's website that "someone from Merge Records uploaded the wrong song two days early."