Kevin Drew, a/k/a Feist's boyfriend, has stepped outside the commune to release his "solo" debut Spirit If?, the first in the Broken Social Scene Presents series. It's his name on the cover ? best…   Read Story »

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Social Scene siren Emily Haines gave her impressive CV some extra padding with last year's Knives Don't Have Your Back, essentially her solo debut, fronting the Soft Skeleton. "The Bank" is track…   Read Story »

Another day where Stereogum's complexion is starting to look Broken Social Scene, eh? The Stars cut earlier today was a promising peek at the BSS-affiliate's fall-released record, but impatient…   Read Story »

You aren't supposed to pronounce that track title, even though Kevin could've done us a solid and put little dots between the letters to indicate that it is in fact an acronym. Listening to the…   Read Story »

Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw's first official release came with 2003's Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, though that wasn't their first full-length studio effort. As a two-piece in '99,…   Read Story »

Not that the subsequent Beantown overreaction wasn't amusing, adult swim, but as far as publicity campaigns go, we prefer the release of a free album of indie cuts to guerrilla Lite-Brite-planting…   Read Story »

Torquil, Amy, and the rest of Stars have entrusted the reworking, covering, and remixing of Set Yourself On Fire to a cadre of Canadian artists, yielding Do You Trust Your Friends?, out later this…   Read Story »

Feist has ambition. The New York Times has a piece profiling Leslie's rise, direction, impending stardom, offering cute quotes ("I'm on the archaeological dig to find the place where my heart ended…   Read Story »

This is a second stab at a clip for Live It Out's "Empty," the first being a pilfering-puppets-and-live-footage cop out. Promo offers up the new iteration, one with more dramatics, more…   Read Story »