I was listening to NPR's All Songs Considered podcast last weekend and heard their discussion about the best opening tracks ever. Much of the talk was about the first impression the opening track left on you and how that set the stage for the rest of the album, which got me thinking of the best opening tracks specifically for debut albums. Who made the best first, first impression? Interestingly, I've found some of these side one track ones are so good that the bands go their whole career without topping it. Others are just hints of great things to come. [...]
Broken Social Scene is setting out on a world tour starting June 18 in Toronto at Toronto Island and they're bringing The Sea and Cake with them for the majority of their fall dates. Expect Sea and Cake and Tortoise member John McEntire to be busy on tour. Having produced the latest Broken Social Scene album Forgiveness Rock Record, which was partly recorded at Soma Studios in Chicago, McEntire quickly became an unofficial member of BSS. Sam Prekop, singer for The Sea and Cake, also contributed to [...]
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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 [...]
Check out new albums due in May from Broken Social Scene, The Black Keys, Leela James, LCD Soundsystem, Flying Lotus and The Hold Steady. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record Yep, they have a lot of members, as Brendan Canning explains , and they also have a lot of guests on the new album, including Feist, Emily Haines, members of Do Make Say Think, The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop and Tortoise (John McEntire produced the whole thing). Their first since 2005's eponymous album, Broken Social Scene release [...]
top of the morning! ive had a ton of requests over the past few years for a repost of this show, and im finally getting around to doing so. it took place at dead pigeon, which i think has changed its name?, in muncie, in on 5.7.95 and much thanks to the taper jason for this recording. if for some reason you have never checked out any of their stuff, i cannot recommend their first one, the fawn , and the biz enough. all of their recordings are good but im quite partial to those three [...]
Playlist para un miércoles errante. Mitad de semana, para un playlist sonámbulo que se despierta a mitad de la noche en el sillón sin saber cómo pasó de la cama al sofá. Recuerdos de un sueño, a mediodía, con una luz radiante, mirando el reflejo del sol en el verde de los árboles. Palace Brothers, The Sea and Cake y una que otra sorpresa del dub underground. Squarepusher y Tortoise, en tonos ocres. Rex aporta el burdeo, al observar como un haz se disuelve en colores en la transparencia de la copa. Rodan, Gastr [...]
There's no group that truly lives the motto "variety is the spice of life" quite like Toronto's Broken Social Scene . For the follow-up to its 2005's self-titled album, Broken Social Scene jumped at the chance to work with Tortoise multi-instrumentalist John McEntire. The new, as-of-yet untitled album, was recorded in part at McEntire's Soma Studios in Chicago and Giant Studios in Toronto, which is owned by former Death From Above 1979 vocalist Sebastien Grainger and Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw. In [...]
Broken Social Scene are back together, and ready to blow your mind with an all star lineup. We would expect nothing less.
It's a joyful week in the land of indie rock: Canada's favorite sons (and daughter) Broken Social Scene are back with their first new album in half a decade! The as yet untitled full-length is set to come out May 4. Now, Broken Social Scene has always been a loose collective. There are the six core members (you may also know Kevin Drew and Brandon Canning by the solo albums they've released in the years since BSS' self-titled 2005 record). But there are also a slew [...]
Canadian collective Broken Social Scene return with a full-on proper studio album this May. The ever changing line-up is led by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning; the pair have since put out solo albums under the Broken Social Scene Presents... series. Instead of waning this musical consortium are expanding, returning with the likes of Feist , Emily Haines and members of Stars to name only a few as well as recruiting members of Tortoise , Sea & Cake and Spiral Stairs . [...]
While Broken Social Scene have always had a bit of a revolving door line-up, it hasn't stopped the band from cementing their place as one of the biggest names in indie rock. The latest line-up is getting ready to release their new album, which hasn't yet been titled, on May 4th via Arts and Crafts. The core line-up of Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning is joined by current members Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg, and Lisa Lobsinger, but there are going to be plenty of guests on this record as well (including Feist , [...]
Filed under: New Music , Canada Broken Social Scene 's rabidly anticipated new album may not have a title yet, but it's finally got a release date: May 4, 2010. It's been almost five years since their self-titled third album and in the intervening years many members of the Toronto collective have gone on to great success with solo efforts and assorted outside projects while Broken Social Scene's breakthrough album 'You Forgot It In People' was remembered on many a decade-end list. But [...]
Since 1999, the Juno Award-winning Canadian indie band Broken Social Scene has illustrated several awesome characteristics - they make damn good music, they're damn good live, and original members often go on to equally awesome solo projects only to return at a moment's notice for the recording of a new studio album or a once-in-a-life-time, you'll-remember-this-forever concert . As Broken Social Scene gears up for the release of its yet-to-be-titled fourth studio album, the aforementioned characteristics will once again be on display. For one, the long overdue followup to 2005's Broken Social Scene [...]
Ghostly's 110 is a rundown of our favorite albums of the decade. In making the list, we wanted to share the albums we've loved over the last 10 years, so fans can compare notes and perhaps make a few new discoveries in the process. The impetus for this list was our belief that a record label is more than just a music distributor-it's a perspective all its own. To start, we asked the Ghostly staff for their top 100 albums (no EPs, reissues, or various-artist compilations) from the decade. While there was a stunning consistency within the [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, my attention this year, as far as music goes, has been diverted in a variety of ways. Doing a 2009 playlist seemed to miss the thrust of what my year was all about (and probably redundant with every other blog out there); doing a collection of old yet new-to-me stuff would have missed all the music that wasn't new to me that I spent so much time with. So instead I offer this: a 75-track playlist that comes as close as I can to giving some impression of what my listening year has really [...]
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