Antes de convertirse en el título de mi canción favorita de Broken Social Scene, " KC Accidental " era el nombre de la banda que montaron en 1998 Kevin Drew y Charles Spearin, dos canadienses interesados en el post-rock por entonces en auge (muy particularmente en la escena de aquel país), y que acabaría siendo el germen del conocido supergrupo de Toronto. Y ojo, que con lo de "supergrupo" no me estoy refiriendo sólo a la calidad de sus integrantes (en su mayoría, gente que provenía de las filas de bandas de una escena muy potente para lo [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive It's been quite a busy year for Kevin Drew . After releasing Broken Social Scene 's fourth full-length, 'Forgiveness Rock Record,' he recently resurrected the two albums from his early band, K.C. Accidental . Of course, that doesn't mean he's slowing down. Drew tells Spinner that he has ideas brewing for a follow-up to his 2007 solo album, 'Spirit If,' confirming our suspicions that anyone remotely associated with Broken Social Scene [...]
K.C. Accidental may be familiar to most people as the title of the opening track proper to Broken Social Scene's breakthrough LP You Forgot It in People ; yet the name comes with its own baggage and history, serving as the moniker behind which Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin operated in the late nineties. Curiously reissued by the band's scene-inspiring label Arts & Crafts at this moment in time, rather than capitalising on the peak of the mid-decade Pitchfork-induced BSS mania, this double-pack of the band's two self-released mostly-instrumental EPs - 19982s Captured Anthems for an Empty [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive In listening to the recently reissued K.C. Accidental albums -- the precursor to Canadian musical collective Broken Social Scene -- one might have trouble connecting the dots. Vocals are scarce and the songs have a more post-rock-meets-electronic slant at times, but as mastermind Kevin Drew explains it, the foundations for this year's 'Forgiveness Rock Record' were set with his first project "Our melodies have [...]
Before "K.C. Accidental" was a song on Broken Social Scene 's You Forgot It In People , and before Broken Social Scene was even called Broken Social Scene, there was K.C. Accidental : Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin's lo-fi bedroom musical project that spawned a pair of self-released LPs at the tail end of the century: Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For The Could’ve Bin Pills . Out of print for over five years now, both albums have recently been reissued by Arts & Crafts [...]
As far as Canadian music collectives go Broken Social Scene stand clearly at the top. Prior to BSS, K.C. Accidental was the recording outlet of Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin. They released two albums in the late nineties: Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For The Could’ve Bin Pills . They have been out of print for five years and never been available outside of Canada until last month when they were reissued by Arts & Crafts . Good stuff. Listen to “Residential Love Song” on [...]
The roots of the recent Toronto music scene explosion (Feist, Metric, Stars, etc.) can be traced back to the beloved collective Broken Social Scene...and the roots of Broken Social Scene can be traced to K.C. Accidental — the two-man, lo-fi collaboration between frontman Kevin Drew (K) and multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin (C). Back in the late '90s, Drew and Spearin got together and hashed out some musical ideas that would come to lay the groundwork for Broken Social Scene. They self-recorded and released 2 EPs as K.C. Accidental — Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For [...]
If you've never examined the depth of Broken Social Scene 's origins, you are in for an extensive flow chart of bands. Metric, Stars, The Weakerthans, By Divine Right, The FemBots, Land of Talk, Do Make Say Think all make up part of this ersatz supergroup's DNA. But truly, before there was Broken Social Scene, there was K.C. Accidental . K.C. Accidental was made up of BSS founder/guitarist/vocalist Kevin Drew and multi-instrumentalist/ best contemporary jazz prize winner at the 2010 Juno Awards Charles Spearin and together they recorded two albums in the late 90s, Captured Anthems For [...]
There's one heck of a body of work that lays behind the boys and girls from Broken Social Scene. Years of work and countless bands helped form the collective into the indie rock force it's become. One of these bands was KC Accidental, the name under which future BSS mainstays Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin released a pair of EPs. These very limited EPs have now been collected and re-released
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Before Broken Social Scene broke away from the confines of Toronto to become worldwide rock sensations, founder Kevin Drew recorded two albums under the moniker K.C. Accidental . Alongside fellow BSS member Charles Spearin, Drew laid the groundwork for what would eventually morph into the indie collective as we know it today. Once long out of print, those first two albums are getting the reissue treatment this week, bundled [...]
Warren Hildebrand records music and runs Orchid Tapes , a cassette-based record label run from his Toronto apartment. The label is a place for friends and other like-minded artists to collaborate and share their music. Now, under the name Foxes in Fiction , Hildebrand has released Swung From The Branches , a mixtape-album. “Most of these songs are tracks that arose from restlessness, breaks between classes, insomnia and 5 AM isolation while in my in apartment in Toronto,” writes Hildebrand on his blog. Splitting the mixtape-album in true cassette-like fashion, Side A [...]
Warren Hildebrand records music and runs Orchid Tapes , a cassette-based record label run from his Toronto apartment. The label is a place for friends and other like-minded artists to collaborate and share their music. Now, under the name Foxes in Fiction , Hildebrand has released Swung From The Branches , a mixtape-album. “Most of these songs are tracks that arose from restlessness, breaks between classes, insomnia and 5 AM isolation while in my in apartment in Toronto,” writes Hildebrand on his blog. Splitting the mixtape-album in true cassette-like fashion, Side A [...]
Before there was Broken Social Scene , there was KC Accidental . A lo-fi bedroom duo of BSS's founder/vocalist/guitarist Kevin Drew and multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin, the two were laying the foundation for the Toronto collective’s sprawling expanse in the form of two self-released EPs made at the end of the 90s: Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For The Could’ve Bin Pills . The two EPs were initially put out in limited numbers Noise Factory Records and now have been out of print for five years, also never available outside Canada. This [...]
Jess Baumung By the standards of the inherently attention deficient internet, a year can be an eternity - so it's remarkable that Diamond Rings has not only managed to sustain the interest that began last Summer with the release of his debut single "All Yr Songs", but steadily build it on both sides of the Atlantic with just three singles and accompanying videos. While it took those at home a little while to comprehend that this wasn't just the guy from local rockers The D'Urbervilles in eyeshadow, those abroad [...]
KC Accidental was the pre-Broken Social Scene project of Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin. They recorded and released two extremely limited EPs in the '90s. Those EPs, Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub and Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills are now being re-issued by Arts & Crafts. The set will be issued in 2-LP, 2-CD, and digital formats on October 26th. Here's the track list: nancy and
K.C Accidental , the band considered to be the foundation for Broken Social Scene , will be re-releasing two of their self published and rare EPs next month in a deluxe 2 LP package. Headed by BSS founder and standby Kevin Drew , K.C. Accidental also features the music of multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin. Entitled Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For The Could’ve Bin Pills respectively, the two EPs have been out of print for years now and have circulated mostly in the Toronto independent scene, finally seeing a large scale [...]
This band laid the foundation for Broken Social Scene, as it's core members were Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin, and a bunch of other people contributed on their second album (they only had two). If you're a fan of BSS you will love this, although its different--- mostly instrumental, but it keeps the same summery rock feel. Oh, warm weather. Hear some songs at their unofficial MySpace , or read about them at their wiki page . Related posts: St. Etienne - "Spring" (Air France remix) [...]
I can honestly say I'm a fan of pretty much everything Emily Haines has done so far, musically. There is Metric of course, and there is her solo stuff, but there's also - let's not forget - her many wonderful collaborations. Some, like " Anthems for a 17-year Old Girl ", seem to be universally loved while others, like " Stopwatch Hearts " or " Uptown Girl ", are less well known. From her songs with Stars and The Stills, to her involvement in Crystal Method and even Tiesto projects - it seems that this is one musician who cannot [...]
Songs to Sleep to If there’s one judgment people often seem to make about my taste in music, it would be that it is “sleep music”. They can never really define what they mean by this kind of music, but this mood is generally what is captured and affected to the listener. What mood do people often attribute to “sleep music”? Music with fewer lyrics, more emphasis on melody and harmony, and a pace to slow the heart down might be some consistent patterns observed in my tastes. So, what music do I [...]
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