Mardi Gras Texas Style drew thousands of fans to Fair Park on Saturday, for a bill of 20 country acts including the Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Cory Morrow and more. As if you ... Continue reading "Picture Show: Mardi Gras Texas Style at Fair Park" >
Filed under: The Hit List Wintertime means cold weather and heavy snowfall for those of us in non-tropical climes, which is a mixed blessing. Sure, there's snowboarding and snowmen, but how does that help when your car is stuck in a snowdrift? More than a few artists have mined the rich metaphoric potential of winter in music videos, usually to melancholy and SAD effect (that's Seasonal Affective Disorder, by the way). Baby, it's cold outside, so read on for some frosty encouragement while you thaw out your fingers with a mug [...]
Still Life Still will be making their LA debut tomorrow night, Feb. 10th, at the Troubadour with Wild Beasts. Last August, Still Life Still released their rather enjoyable debut lp, Girls Come Too , recorded by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene with producer Martin Davis Kinack (Apostle of Hustle/Amy Millan). Pastel dates: 2/10/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour * 2/11/10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent * 2/13/10 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge [...]
I'm giddy like a Japanese schoolgirl about the imminent return of Broken Social Scene . A new as yet untitled album is due on May 1st on City Slang / Co-Op and they'll be playing SXSW next month which I hope to catch. I've fond memories of all their Dublin shows particularly the Temple Bar Music Centre gig in 2006 and their two albums You Forgot in In People and Broken Social Scene are amongst my favourite albums ever. '7/4 (Shoreline)' is one of my favourite tunes ever too. The [...]
This is a very atypical post here on Technocolorkids but I have to pay homage to who are very arguably the greatest band of our generation, and in Sunday Smoothie fashion. I saw Broken Social Scene at the Henry Fonda 5 yrs ago and was absolutely confounded by their live show. Since then they had disbanded and gone on several tours since their members are all involved in various notorious side projects [including Feist , Amy Millan of Stars and Emily Haines of Metric ]. Since then, Kevin Drew [and what he considers the condensed "core [...]
When There's No Other Choice but to Believe I have been perhaps the most lax blogger in the short history of blogging. Blogging can sometimes appear analogous to the whole 'If a Tree Fell in a Forest" and no one was present to witness; what does it all mean anyway? Then again, writing a blog for anything other than the pleasure of writing, might be delusional - unless of course one has made some serious connections and inroads in a post-Pitchfork impacted field, meaning advertising dollars and promo CDs. Of [...]
As the story goes, before landing the role of Anita Miller in Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical movie, Almost Famous, doe-eyed actress Zooey Deschanel had originally auditioned for the part of head Band-Aid Penny Lane. The She & Him lead singer will now get her own chance to play the part of rock star groupie as she will star and executive produce a new half-hour pilot for HBO based on Pamela Des Barres' infamous memoir I'm With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie . [...]
Radiohead no twitter (e lançando disco novo?), Broken Social Scene de volta (enfim!) e mais algumas coisinhas na edição da semana do Randomizando (não, não é semanal, mas who knows). O Radiohead, o Twitter e os rumores E enfim o Radiohead tem um twitter. VERIFIED ACCOUNT, minha gente. E o Thom também (ainda não é "verified", mas segue e é seguido pelo perfil da banda). Por enquanto, só há o "testing twitter" acima postado, mas com o Radiohead já deu para perceber que onde há fumaça, há fogo. Às vezes, um incêndio [...]
Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene have announced details on their next release. The album, for which a title has not yet been announced, will arrive on May 4th via the band's Arts and Crafts label. The core group on the record will include Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman (also of Apostle of Hustle ), Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, and Reverie Sound Revue vocalist Lisa Lobsinger. There are are a massive number of guests featured the album, including Feist , Stars ' Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, and [...]
Joseph Yarmush When you're Land Of Talk fan, you've got to keep an eye open. While any self-respecting follower of the band - or music-lover, for that matter - owns copies of their buzzsaw debut EP Applause Cheer Boo Hiss and the more nuanced but just as rewarding full-length Some Are Lakes , not everyone even knows about let alone possesses the now sold-out live acoustic L'aventure Acoustique document released between the EP and full-length. And while [...]
Joseph Yarmush When you're Land Of Talk fan, you've got to keep an eye open. While any self-respecting follower of the band - or music-lover, for that matter - owns copies of their buzzsaw debut EP Applause Cheer Boo Hiss and the more nuanced but just as rewarding full-length Some Are Lakes , not everyone even knows about let alone possesses the now sold-out live acoustic L'aventure Acoustique document released between the EP and full-length. And while [...]
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 [...]
It's due May 4 via their Arts & Crafts label , and it's the Toronto collective's first since 2005. Not many details are given , except that it will feature the lineup of Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg and Lisa Lobsinger. The question I have is who will be the guest stars? Will we see appearances from Feist, Liz Powell, Amy Milan, Jason Collett? Any wildcards we don't see coming?
I'm not so smug as to think that I can pin-point the albums that will, in retrospect, stand out the most from the 2000s. Nor would it be accurate to argue that the albums that affected me the most on a personal level were "the best." But if I were to completely take the personal part out of my own list, you might as well just read anyone's list. There has to be an aspect of me in my list. So, these are neither the most personal albums nor the albums that I [...]
Toronto's indie-juggernaut Broken Social Scene finally announce the info for upcoming record May 4th, enlisting producer John McEntire (Tortoise/Sea & Cake). No title yet but expect usual comrads Fiest, Amy Millan, Emily Haines & James Shaw (Metric), Sebastian Grainger(ex-Death From Above 1979) and members of Do Make Say Think. BSS capo Kevin Drew chats with P4k about the record. cheers to DayBowBow Broken Social Scene 05-01 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 05-03 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre 05-07 New York, NY - Webster Hall [...]
Its members have been busy together and ( sort of ) apart , but the Joy Divison cover band is finally ready to present the long-awaited update to 2005's self-titled third studio collection. So far it's untitled, but we do know that, as previously conjectured , it was co-produced by the band and Tortoise's John McEntire at his Chicago-based Soma Studios. Original recording took place at Giant Studio and The Schvitz Studio in Toronto. The current official lineup is Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg, and Lisa Lobsinger. [...]
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 [...]
Okay, I don't actually have a new Broken Social Scene song for you, but I have most excellent news: BSS is coming out with a new album May 4th! I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I've been waiting a loooooooooong time for this, as have the rest of you. The last album they released was Broken Social Scene and that was in 2005. They've put out various solo works (Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning) but they haven't recorded a proper one [...]
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 . [...]
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew has announced that the band will be releasing a new album this year. It has been more than four years since the band last released an album. This new album is still untitled and is expected to be released on Cinco de Mayo Eve, May 4. ... Click the link to read more
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