Artist: brendan Canning

Toronto - The holiday season is an interesting time of year, one in which one's usual resitance to things that might be considered slightly corny or cheesy are in fact actually embraced. Christmas specials we've seen dozens of times over, albums by Mariah Carey, all of them are kind of OK at this time of the year. When this tendency to like Christmassy stuff is combined with a solid lineup of Canadian talent, it turns into something very much like the Andy Kim Christmas concert. The annual charity event, now in it's seventh year, was raising funds this night for Julliette's [...]

Cuando una banda de éxito deja de funcionar provisional o definitivamente es normal que sus integrantes decidan probar suerte con otros proyectos. Ayer justo comentábamos que Lee Renaldo, guitarrista de Sonic Youth, publicaría un nuevo disco en solitario después de saberse que el grupo que le ha dado un nombre en la música tiene los días contados. Hoy nos hemos topado con un caso parecido. Se trata de Brendan Canning de Broken Social Scene , que ha anunciado que tiene un nuevo disco preparado. Las declaraciones han sido recogidas por Spinner [...]

Todavía estamos recuperando el aliento pero las novedades de Broken Social Scene abundan: después de su show en Argentina y del anuncio del disco de la banda formada por algunos de sus miembros, Eight and a Half , uno de los fundadores de la banda, Brendan Canning , anunció un nuevo disco solista. Los detalles del flamante esfuerzo de Canning todavía no han sido completamente revelados, pero se sabe que el [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music Daniel Boczarski, Redferns Although Broken Social Scene only announced two days ago they had played their last live show, Brendan Canning , one of the band's co-founders along with Kevin Drew , is already planning his next project. "I actually have a full album that's currently being looked at by a label," Canning recently told his former roommate Danko [...]

Who doesn't love an impromptu concert by a popular indie band? Nobody, that's who. So when A.V. Club Chicago broke the news late Tuesday that Toronto super collective Broken Social Scene would perform a free show somewhere in town, our interest was piqued. All principle members including frontman Kevin Drew, guitarist Andrew Whiteman, bassist Brendan Canning, drummer Justin Peroff, guitarist Sam Goldberg, singer Lisa Lobsinger and horn section appeared on an especially erected stage under an "occasionally perfect" Heineken billboard directly across from Wrigley Field. Drew professed his love for Chicago, mentioning [...]

I know this might be old news about the long-list for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize . Since I was at NXNE , why not check out the nominees. They always have great food at the Drake Hotel. It was a great way to meet musicians and some industry people there. It was a surprised to see Dan Snaith of Caribou there. He was there to announce the ten nominees. I told him that I thought he was in England since Pick A Piper played the night before at the Garrison and [...]

Video / Donate Broken Social Scene covers Modest Mouse 's "The World at Large" for The Voice Project – a non-profit organization that supports the women and the peace movement in Uganda. Kevin Drew and other two founding fathers of BSS – Charles Spearin and Brendan Canning - gather in Spearin's Toronto home studio to offer their best adaptation of the track from Good News for People Who Love Bad News . "The only thing about it is that I'm no [...]

After watching the recently unearthed footage of Arcade Fire playing a house party in 2002 and a 17-year-old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead and Simon & Garfunkel, I thought it would be fun to collect more early videos of our favorite bands from before we ever heard them. Well, fun for us, maybe not so much for them... Read More...

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Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Chromewaves Broken Social Scene mainstay Kevin Drew pulled double duty at this week's Juno Awards press conference in Toronto, helping unveil nominees for the best in Canadian music alongside bandmate Brendan Canning , before playing the role of proud nominee himself as BSS snapped [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News When inclement winter weather kept Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane -- best known for his early '90s hit 'Life is a Highway' -- from appearing at veteran musician Andy Kim's annual Christmas fundraiser in Toronto on Wednesday night, Broken Social Scene 's Kevin Drew was happy to fill in. "Alright! We are going to do this for you," he told the capacity crowd at the Mod Club theater. Then, [...]

Broken Social Scene have released the official video for " Texico Bitches " from Forgiveness Rock Record , featuring a showdown between warring sides that quickly turns personal. You may remember the song from the band's live performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this year. The Canadian group have also announced a winter tour beginning in London next month, and includes several U.S. dates. 1/16/11 - London, ON @ The Music Hall 1/18/11 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 1/29/11 - Edmonton, AB @ Freezing Man Festival [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Spinner Interview If there was ever a standard-bearer for indie rock, North Carolina stalwarts Superchunk would surely wave the flag. While the quartet may have taken a rather extended hiatus from recording and touring over the past decade, they never really went away. Frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance continued to oversee the pioneering indie label they founded, celebrating [...]

(via. ChenTse's Flickr ) Despite an endless slog of tour dates, Broken Social Scene still managed to release a new track – "Not at My Best", for Anna Boden 's and Ryan Fleck 's film It's Kind of a Funny Story . Boden and Fleck are no strangers to the sound of Toronto's indie-rock giants. They borrowed songs from Broken Social Scene's celebrated albums Feel Good Lost and You Forgot It in People for their film Half Nelson . The film also included an [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies When film director Bruce McDonald and writer Daniel MacIvor got together to discuss the rock'n'roll film that would become 'Trigger,' which made its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival , little did they know how simultaneously special and bittersweet the process would become. The amazing rock'n'roll drama would be the last film late Canadian actress Tracy Wright made before she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on June 22 [...]

Filed under: Video , Movies , Canada Fans of Canadian indie rock and Canadian indie cinema have been chomping at the bit for the June 25 release of 'This Movie is Broken,' a part-scripted, part-concert film that brings together Broken Social Scene with legendary filmmakers Bruce MacDonald ('Highway 61,' 'Hard Core Logo') and Don McKellar ('Last Night,' 'Slings & Arrows'). MacDonald previously worked with BSS on his 2007 film 'The Tracey Fragments,' which starred Ellen Page and featured a score composed by Broken Social [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video , Exclusive After five years without an album, Broken Social Scene recently reemerged with 'Forgiveness Rock Record,' which they mostly recorded last year in Chicago with Tortoise 's John McEntire. Although the band's roots are Canadian, that didn't stop them from mingling with the locals and riding their bikes to and from the studio each day through the flat streets of downtown Chicago. "We have a pretty good fan base there, so we'd end up going to [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , New Music , Canada "It's adult time," announces Kevin Drew , the smiling, scruffy face of Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene , on the heels of their long-awaited new album 'Forgiveness Rock Record,' which just debuted at number one in Canada, 34 on the US SoundScan charts and 10 on the US digital charts. "The kids are grown up, the babies were born, there's a lot of responsibility towards families. There are a lot of jobs now involved around this [...]

Broken Social Scene head to London this week as the first stop of an international tour that sees them trekking between Europe, Canada and the U.S through October. Festival stops along the way include All Tomorrow's Parties, Sasquatch, Glastonbury, Pitchfork, T in the Park and Primavera. Yep, they're the popular kids this summer. The crew recently released their fourth full-length, Forgiveness Rock Record ( Arts&Crafts ), which we previewed back in April. Produced by John McEntire, the album features Feist, Emily Haines, members of Do Make Say Think, The Sea and [...]

One of my favorite aspects to writer/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's 2006 film Half Nelson — aside from its wonderful performances by Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, and Anthony Mackie of course — was the use of music by Broken Social Scene for key moments. The motel scene, which features BSS' "Shampoo Suicide" off their 2002 masterpiece, You Forgot It In People , was particularly moving (check it out below). Their follow-up, Sugar , also included great music by TV on the Radio and a score by [...]