Canada's known for indie rock, so makes sense you'll find plenty of homegrown talent (BSS, Stars) and international musicians (Wilco, Iron & Wine, Joan As Policewoman) near the slopes at Vancouver's Winter Olympics. More names at CoS.... CONTINUE READING WILCO, BSS, SUN KIL MOON TO PLAY 2010 OLYMPICS»
Posted on October 13, 2009 (4 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Iron And Wine | Joan As Policewoman | Laurie Anderson | Stars | Sun Kil Moon | Wilco
This countrified cover of Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" shows up on Amy Millan's second solo album Masters Of The Burial. The Broken Social Scene/Stars singer's been performing it live for years, but this... CONTINUE READING AMY MILLAN COVERS DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 13, 2009 in (11 comments)
Tags: Amy Millan | Broken Social Scene | Death Cab For Cutie | Phoenix | Stars
Broken Social Scene's half-speed, richly atmospheric Kevin Drew-fronted and piano-sprinkled take on "Love Will Tear Us Apart" shows up in that saccharine-seeming tear-jerking adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. BSS make a... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE COVER JOY DIVISION»
Posted on August 6, 2009 in (32 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Joy Division | Passion Pit | The Time Traveler's Wife
We got the word on this one from a reader named Kate, who informs us of the following: Broken Social Scene were going to have a show on the island in Toronto but because of the city strike they had... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE REUNITE ON THE TORONTO HARBORFRONT»
Posted on July 13, 2009 in (32 comments)
Tags: Amy Millan | Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Emily Haines | Feist | Jason Collett | Jools Holland | Kevin Drew | Mercury Prize | Metric
That "secret" hometown show with Feist which gave us "Forced To Love" has also yielded this vaguely uplifting and sprawling (i.e. Broken Social Scene) track. Good quality video at Singing Lamb. ... CONTINUE READING NEW BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - "WORLD SICK" (LIVE @ NXNE)»
Posted on June 30, 2009 in (11 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene
Last we heard, BSS were recording a new album with John McEntire. They're already playing rockers from it at "secret" hometown shows with Feist. The video's a bit boomy, but watch them do it up at the Courthouse.... CONTINUE READING NEW BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - "FORCED TO LOVE" (LIVE IN TORONTO)»
Posted on June 22, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Feist
Kevin Drew checks in with a blog post from Soma studio in Chicago, where BSS are working on a proper followup to Broken Social Scene with Tortoise/Sea & Cake/Chicago-scene hero John McEntire. Also there's gonna be a BSS book! Get... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE RECORDING NEW ALBUM WITH JOHN MCENTIRE»
Posted on May 15, 2009 (8 comments)
Tags: Avi Buffalo | Broken Social Scene | John McEntire | Kevin Drew
So many actors getting work on Stereogum today. The new Feist video for The Reminder's fluid and spacious gem "The Water" is a 15 minute piece written and directed by Kevin Drew and starring David Fox, Cillian Murphy, and Leslie.... CONTINUE READING NEW FEIST VIDEO (FEAT. CILLIAN MURPHY) - "THE WATER"»
Posted on April 10, 2009 in (38 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Cillian Murphy | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Kevin Drew
So far the videos from Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us... have found the Broken Social Scenester running for his life in the woods and battling Kevin Drew. BC's also at the center of this Shelley Lewis-directed "Love Is... CONTINUE READING NEW BRENDAN CANNING VIDEO - "LOVE IS NEW"»
Posted on March 11, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Florence And The Machine | Tegan And Sara
A-grade chocolatiers Broken Social Scene brought a slice of their latest Presents... project -- Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us -- to David last night. It's a very BSSy track, this "Churches Under The Stairs", with a very BSSy... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE GIVE LETTERMAN SOMETHING FOR ALL OF US»
Posted on December 18, 2008 in , (23 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Land Of Talk | The Dead Weather
This one's a trip. The Stills have been particularly ominous in this Oceans Will Rise era. And come to think of it, the album title's apocalyptic undertones should have been an initial hint. Their MySpace update before the record's release... CONTINUE READING NEW STILLS VIDEO (FEAT. BRENDAN CANNING) - "DON'T TALK DOWN" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on December 11, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Grizzly Bear | The Stills
There are so many people in Broken Social Scene that an extra body onstage might go unnoticed. Well, if that extra body didn't have the very distinctive voice of Isaac Brock. The Modest Mouse teamed up with BSS recently at... CONTINUE READING ISAAC BROCK & BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE SHOW US "THE WORLD AT LARGE"»
Posted on December 2, 2008 in (15 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Isaac Brock | Modest Mouse | of Montreal
The tagline in this new Cadbury advertisement is "made for many," but it's hard imagining it'll becoming anything like the pop-culture phenomenon that was Feist's Nano advertisement. Still, this hasn't kept her Broken Social Scene associates from offering up You... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE SELL CHOCOLATES»
Posted on November 11, 2008 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Elbow | Vampire Weekend
The last time we saw Brendan Canning, via "Hit The Wall," he was running away from animals, wearing a red tracksuit, and looking a lot like Jeff Lynne. For the George Vale-directed video for "Churches Under The Stairs," Canning instead... CONTINUE READING NEW BRENDAN CANNING VIDEO - "CHURCHES UNDER THE STAIRS"»
Posted on November 10, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Kevin Drew | Magnolia Electric Co. | The Decemberists
Stereogum's collaboration with Neighborhoodies.com moves into its penultimate day with a nod to everyone's favorite Canadian indie rock collective in flux, and how they're always having so many side projects all the time. If "my other shirt is in Broken... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM X NEIGHBORHOODIES THINK UPS T-SHIRT #4»
Posted on September 11, 2008 (10 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Think Ups
Well not all of Land Of Talk -- and as is generally the case, not all of Broken Social Scene. Last minute distractions kept me from hitting the Mystery Concert semester kickoff party at NYU (featuring BSS, Pattern Is Movement,... CONTINUE READING BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE AND LAND OF TALK JOIN FOR "7/4 (SHORELINE)" AT NYU»
Posted on September 5, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Land Of Talk | Pattern Is Movement
I couldn't make Siren Festival this year and Amrit and Brandon were at Pitchfork, so ... how was it? Based on the photographic display from Kyle Dean Reinford I guess sweaty? How was the sound? Did you shoot the freak?... CONTINUE READING ISLANDS AND ANNUALS AND JICKS: SIREN FEST 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Annuals | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Dragons Of Zynth | Film School | Islands | Jaguar Love | Parts And Labor | Ra Ra Riot | Stephen Malkmus | The Dodos | The Helio Sequence | These Are Powers | Times New Viking | Victoria Legrand
In the Sean Michael Turrell-directed video for previously mentioned (and listened to) "Hit The Wall," Broken Social Scene bassist and Spirit If... tour mate Brendan Canning wakes up in the woods in his red tracksuit and sees some of those... CONTINUE READING NEW BRENDAN CANNING VIDEO - "HIT THE WALL"»
Posted on July 8, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene may have decided to Present... Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us... a few weeks early due to leak issues (buy here, free MP3 here), but fellow BSS founder Kevin Drew isn't ready to let you forget... CONTINUE READING NEW KEVIN DREW VIDEO - "SAFETY BRICKS"»
Posted on June 9, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Kevin Drew
Now that Broken Social Scene is through Presenting Kevin Drew, the collective can move on to Presenting other people who make music. But first, what exactly constitutes a Broken Social Scene Presents billing? From what we can tell, the artist... CONTINUE READING NEW BRENDAN CANNING - "HIT THE WALL"»
Posted on May 5, 2008 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Micachu And The Shapes | SXSW
Last week, Chicago Sun-Times's Jim DeRogatis leaked over a dozen names performing at this summer's 45th annual Lollapalooza festival, including the Alternative Nation power troika of Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and Nine Inch Nails. Lollafounder Perry Farrell responded in... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008 FULL LINE-UP REVEALED»
Posted on April 6, 2008 (68 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Gnarls Barkley | Grizzly Bear | Jim DeRogatis | Kanye West | Lollapalooza | Nine Inch Nails | Radiohead | Rage Against The Machine | The Raconteurs | Wilco
Just when we were thinking we could get away with just one trip to Chicago this summer, Lolla drops details on the sort of lineup we were expecting to see from the Coachella folks a few months ago. Jim DeRo... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008 HEADLINERS, PARTIAL LINEUP LEAKED»
Posted on April 4, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Gnarls Barkley | Grizzly Bear | Kanye West | Lollapalooza | Nine Inch Nails | Radiohead | Rage Against The Machine | The Raconteurs | Wilco
Never let it be said Kevin Drew doesn't know how to start a show. And how to avoid responsibility for his criminal actions. The clip for "Lucky Ones" begins with the lead Broken Social Scenester talking the staff at Toronto's... CONTINUE READING NEW KEVIN DREW VIDEO - "LUCKY ONES"»
Posted on February 28, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Kevin Drew | Tom Cochrane
Toward the end of last year, we checked in with Broken Social Scenester Jason Collett, to find him talking up his next effort as his "guitar record," offering up a couple tracks to put his MPEG-1, Layer 3 where his... CONTINUE READING ARTS & CRAFTS NIXES JASON COLLETT'S RAP TRACKS»
Posted on January 11, 2008 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Jason Collett
November's been a good month for New Order covers. Earlier this month of course we geeked to Thom & Co.'s "Ceremony" while warming ourselves in the glow of Radiohead's laptop-side chat. The Hills reconnected us with Frente!'s "Bizarre Love Triangle"... CONTINUE READING KEVIN DREW COVERS NEW ORDER»
Posted on November 29, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Kevin Drew | New Order
