Edgar Wright loves sharing “best of” lists with his thousands of fans on social media. This year alone, the filmmaker released a list of his 100 favorite horror films and provided an update to his list of his 40 favorite films ever. The end of the year is naturally a time Wright loves most, and he’s published his official list of the 50 top songs of 2017, with an accompany Spotify playlist where fans can stream every entry.
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Wright’s list starts LCD Soundsytem’s “call the police,” which was released as the lead single from the band’s fourth studio album “American Dream.” The list also includes tracks from The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Beck, Arcade Fire, Temples, Broken Social Scene, Laura Marling, The Big Moon, and Hmltd. Artists such as Drake, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean,...
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Wright’s list starts LCD Soundsytem’s “call the police,” which was released as the lead single from the band’s fourth studio album “American Dream.” The list also includes tracks from The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Beck, Arcade Fire, Temples, Broken Social Scene, Laura Marling, The Big Moon, and Hmltd. Artists such as Drake, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean,...
- 12/1/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Broken Social Scene Show Us the Beauty in Life in "Skyline" Video...
- 9/14/2017
- Pastemagazine.com
Music makes the movie with David Lowery’s haunting fantasy drama film, “A Ghost Story.” Much of the narrative is based around music: both its significance to the characters and its significance in telling the story of coping with love and loss for the living and the deceased. While the dialogue itself offers beautiful bits of wisdom and food for thought, the film’s score invokes emotions that even those who haven’t experienced profound loss will understand and connect with.
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The film hit theaters on July 7 after generating tons of buzz during its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and now the film’s brilliant soundtrack, composed by solo violinist Daniel Hart, is available to stream. A mix of eerie yet beautiful and calming tracks set the tone for the equally haunting and beautiful movie.
Read More: ‘A Ghost Story’ and ‘The Big Sick’ Sustain Indie Box Office Surge
The film hit theaters on July 7 after generating tons of buzz during its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and now the film’s brilliant soundtrack, composed by solo violinist Daniel Hart, is available to stream. A mix of eerie yet beautiful and calming tracks set the tone for the equally haunting and beautiful movie.
- 7/12/2017
- by Gabrielle Kiss
- Indiewire
After years away, Broken Social Scene have reunited for Hug of Thunder, a dense and often great album that features every single member.
- 7/11/2017
- by Craig Jenkins
- Vulture
Haim, Broken Social Scene, 21 Savage, Toro y Moi, and more provide a diverse range of moods to soundtrack your weekend.
- 7/7/2017
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene has played the first show of their European tour in Manchester. The performance comes a day after a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the British city killed 22 people and wounded dozens more. Related: Manchester Arena attack: British Pm May concerned another attack may be ‘imminent’ […]...
- 5/24/2017
- by Jordan Appugliesi
- ET Canada
Music plays an appropriately haunting part in David Lowery’s Sundance hit “A Ghost Story,” which follows his “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as they attempt to navigate love, loss, and the afterlife in the filmmaker’s daringly intimate feature. (Affleck’s character eventually becomes a ghost in the film, but before his unexpected death, he’s a talented musician, and the music doesn’t stop after he shuffles off this mortal coil…kind of, sort of, not really.)
The film will hit theaters later this summer, along with a soundtrack filled to bursting with evocative tracks that unspool over the course of the riveting film, and we’ve got a batch of exclusive details on the album, complete with a first listen at one of its most essential songs.
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The film will hit theaters later this summer, along with a soundtrack filled to bursting with evocative tracks that unspool over the course of the riveting film, and we’ve got a batch of exclusive details on the album, complete with a first listen at one of its most essential songs.
Read More: ‘A Ghost Story’ Review: Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara Star in David Lowery...
- 5/15/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene are shaking up the music scene with their first album in seven years! Related: Broken Social Scene Debut New Track On ‘The Late Show’ The group have announced their plans to release “Hug of Thunder” on July 7. They last released their first-ever number one Canadian album “Forgiveness […]...
- 5/9/2017
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
It’s been seven years since we last heard some new music from Broken Social Scene, but last night the Toronto-based musical collective took to the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater to debut a brand new song on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”. As reported by NME, the line-up for Thursday night’s “Late Show” […]...
- 3/31/2017
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Anticipation for 2017’s major festivals is at an all time high, with Coachella‘s lineup serving as the holy grail of the entire season. We’ve already heard some rumors about the alleged headliners, while DJ Khaled inadvertently spilled the beans on his slot at the festival. Now we have another enticing update to ponder with a list that attempts to predict the entire lineup.
A website called TravelGrom has consistently made predictions about Coachella lineups in the past with a high degree of accuracy compared to the average rumor, and they’ve just offered up their projections for 2017. While the information is just conjecture at this point, TravelGrom predicted last year’s lineup with 64% accuracy. If that figure holds true again, over half of the list will wind up on the official lineup.
The alleged lineup includes a diverse array of styles, with representation from Edm, Rock, Rap, Pop and everything in between.
A website called TravelGrom has consistently made predictions about Coachella lineups in the past with a high degree of accuracy compared to the average rumor, and they’ve just offered up their projections for 2017. While the information is just conjecture at this point, TravelGrom predicted last year’s lineup with 64% accuracy. If that figure holds true again, over half of the list will wind up on the official lineup.
The alleged lineup includes a diverse array of styles, with representation from Edm, Rock, Rap, Pop and everything in between.
- 11/4/2016
- by Connor Jones
- We Got This Covered
Los Angeles - Last night musicians and comedians gathered at the Ace Hotel to honor the 60th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking poem "Howl," in the form of a benefit concert thrown by the David Lynch Foundation. The non-profit centers on spreading the word about the benefits of Transcendental Meditation. Sounds like a laugh riot, right? Actually, everyone fared pretty well... "David Lynch... the man who made me afraid of hallways." Musician Kevin Drew, as an introduction "Live abortions! Raise your hand if you've had an abortion... or you can just slap me five when you leave." Amy Poehler "I love rap music but I despise poetry." Chris Parnell, prior to rapping "The Ballad of the Skeletons" with Amy Poehler "This should go for two or three hours. Let's round it up to six... Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You have to if you wanna see Nic Cage.
- 4/8/2015
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
It's only just December, but we're already looking at the year ahead, and in January a plethora of new films will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival. But if you're looking to find some truly under the radar gems, you might be better off exploring the Slamdance Film Festival, where the names might not be as big, but the movies are just as ambitious. And one such film to keep an eye on is "Diamond Tongues." The dramedy is co-directed by Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson (who also co-founded the film site The Seventh Art with Christopher Heron) and tells the story of Edith Welland (Leah Goldstein), a struggling actress who gets a surprise when she learns her ex-boyfriend has not only taken up the trade but has booked a leading role. Boasting a supporting cast including comedian/musician Nick Flanagan, Leah Wildman, Adam Gurfinkel, and Noah R. Taylor,...
- 12/4/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Life is hard, struggle is real. There should be a class in college that teaches about how life really works -- lots of disappointment, heartbreak and starting over when you thought your life was set. This is perhaps the most personal kind of curveball life throws at you and for some people, it happens a lot. Life is hard, struggle is real. But you can change and you can heal your wounds and carry on. To quote the great Broken Social Scene, "All the time we get by trying to figure out our lives." Alex of Venice stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular character, Alex, an attorney currently fighting to save the planet. She's a tender heart who's looking out for the Earth --...
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- 4/21/2014
- Screen Anarchy
As one of the most visionary creators in modern time, David Cronenberg has garnered an eclectic filmography that includes deranged horror masterpieces like Videodrome and more conventional, yet audacious, narratives like A History of Violence. Now, audiences will have the chance to be immersed in the filmmaker’s universe via the Tiff and the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (Cfc Media Lab) transmedia production Body/Mind/Change. This unique interactive experience stars Cronenberg himself and exposes the plausible science fiction that inhabits his oeuvre as scientific facts.
“Working with Tiff on Body/Mind/Change offered an unparalleled opportunity for Cfc Media Lab to work with the amazing David Cronenberg; Lance Weiler, an incomparable storyteller reinventing entertainment using transmedia; and a passionate group of digital designers and companies,” said Cfc’s Chief Digital Officer Ana Serrano, who is also worked with Tiff on Body/Mind/Change. “It has been an exciting creative journey resulting in North America’s first interactive storytelling experience that generates a physical object for the user that has narrative meaning.”
“The Cronenberg Project is Tiff’s first fully-curated exhibition offers visitors a truly unique experience, both within the Tiff Lightbox and beyond with Body/Mind/Change,” added Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, Tiff Bell Lightbox. “In addition to Lance Weiler’s artistic direction and the Cfc team, David Cronenberg’s involvement in this project has made it one of the coolest multimedia projects in the world.”
The Cfc Media Lab has assembled an incredible team that includes some of the most innovative creative minds in North America working on digital media today. One of these amazing artists is Lance Weiler who is serving as the creative director and experience designer Body/Mind/Change. Weller history with Cfc Media Lab goes back to his own work The Last Broadcast, which he presented at their Interactive Arena Series as one of the pioneering minds to combine traditional storytelling with modern technology. 1188 Films, Aesthetec, Northern Army, and composer Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene among others, form the rest of the extremely talented team. In the production side there is Art Hindle, who is one of Cronenberg’s recurrent collaborations, as well as Joey Klein and alumni from the Cfc Actors Conservatory program, Diana Bentley and Natalie Krill.
“Working with David Cronenberg on Body/Mind/Change was an amazing experience. With his participation we were able to create a layered story world that will immerse participants in his fiction as if it were reality,” says Lance Weiler, creative director and experience designer of Body/Mind/Change."
Body/Mind/Change is inspired by the intellectual property found in Cronenberg’s films, such as Scanners, Videodrome and eXistenZ. In this realm, the director’s partners with Bmc Labs, a fictional biotech firm, to develop biotech enhancement implants. On October 25, registered participants will be guided through an episodic interactive narrative that functions as a simulator for training their PODs. Once each participant completes this three-part experience they are guaranteed a unique Pod generated from their behavior during the simulations. Their Pod will be available for pick-up at the close of the David Cronenberg: Evolution exhibition in January 2014 at the Bmc Labs installation, located in the Cibc Canadian Film Gallery on the 4th floor of the Tiff Bell Lightbox.
Participants can sign up now at www.bodymindchange.ca where they can register to be one of the first to receive the next generation bio-tech recommendation engine, called Personal-On-Demand (Pod). For a sneak peek of the video trailer Click Here.
“Working with Tiff on Body/Mind/Change offered an unparalleled opportunity for Cfc Media Lab to work with the amazing David Cronenberg; Lance Weiler, an incomparable storyteller reinventing entertainment using transmedia; and a passionate group of digital designers and companies,” said Cfc’s Chief Digital Officer Ana Serrano, who is also worked with Tiff on Body/Mind/Change. “It has been an exciting creative journey resulting in North America’s first interactive storytelling experience that generates a physical object for the user that has narrative meaning.”
“The Cronenberg Project is Tiff’s first fully-curated exhibition offers visitors a truly unique experience, both within the Tiff Lightbox and beyond with Body/Mind/Change,” added Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, Tiff Bell Lightbox. “In addition to Lance Weiler’s artistic direction and the Cfc team, David Cronenberg’s involvement in this project has made it one of the coolest multimedia projects in the world.”
The Cfc Media Lab has assembled an incredible team that includes some of the most innovative creative minds in North America working on digital media today. One of these amazing artists is Lance Weiler who is serving as the creative director and experience designer Body/Mind/Change. Weller history with Cfc Media Lab goes back to his own work The Last Broadcast, which he presented at their Interactive Arena Series as one of the pioneering minds to combine traditional storytelling with modern technology. 1188 Films, Aesthetec, Northern Army, and composer Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene among others, form the rest of the extremely talented team. In the production side there is Art Hindle, who is one of Cronenberg’s recurrent collaborations, as well as Joey Klein and alumni from the Cfc Actors Conservatory program, Diana Bentley and Natalie Krill.
“Working with David Cronenberg on Body/Mind/Change was an amazing experience. With his participation we were able to create a layered story world that will immerse participants in his fiction as if it were reality,” says Lance Weiler, creative director and experience designer of Body/Mind/Change."
Body/Mind/Change is inspired by the intellectual property found in Cronenberg’s films, such as Scanners, Videodrome and eXistenZ. In this realm, the director’s partners with Bmc Labs, a fictional biotech firm, to develop biotech enhancement implants. On October 25, registered participants will be guided through an episodic interactive narrative that functions as a simulator for training their PODs. Once each participant completes this three-part experience they are guaranteed a unique Pod generated from their behavior during the simulations. Their Pod will be available for pick-up at the close of the David Cronenberg: Evolution exhibition in January 2014 at the Bmc Labs installation, located in the Cibc Canadian Film Gallery on the 4th floor of the Tiff Bell Lightbox.
Participants can sign up now at www.bodymindchange.ca where they can register to be one of the first to receive the next generation bio-tech recommendation engine, called Personal-On-Demand (Pod). For a sneak peek of the video trailer Click Here.
- 9/19/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
With three films spanning just shy of 10 years, Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy ends this weekend, but it ends with a bang. The director's third film in his loose trilogy — which always includes his pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost — is "The World's End" — a sci-fi-ish pub crawl comedy with heart and mind that actually focuses on nostalgia for one's youth, the meaning of friendship and even the idea of how globalization can change what you once knew as home. A funny, entertaining and fitting ending to the Cornetto trilogy (which includes "Shaun Of The Dead" and "Hot Fuzz"), music has been integral to all of Wright's films including his pop-soundtrack-stacked, "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" (which featured the likes of Beck, Broken Social Scene, Metric and more). And as a film that also acts as a warning about the dangers of nostalgia, the soundtrack to "The World's End" looks...
- 8/22/2013
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
What I said last time about the summer being a fairly quiet time for the streaming world, please disregard. Rather than wait for the autumn when people are more inclined to slump on a sofa in front of the tube, Netflix, Lovefilm and a new contender have decided that everyone just loves good movies and TV and so have flooded the marketplace with good content in a battle to outdo one another. The winner again is you the consumer and the hardest part may be to actually choose just one of these outlets to subscribe to.
That new contender I talked about is Sky, who has thrown their hat into the ring with Now TV, which is essentially an on demand version of their Sky Movie channels available over the internet. If you have seen the Now TV website and thought they didn’t actually have much content then think again.
That new contender I talked about is Sky, who has thrown their hat into the ring with Now TV, which is essentially an on demand version of their Sky Movie channels available over the internet. If you have seen the Now TV website and thought they didn’t actually have much content then think again.
- 8/12/2013
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
While Steven Soderbergh’s assertion that “The Canyons” has “a spectacular sex scene” has been one of many tantalizing teases for the movie, audiences clamoring to see Lindsay Lohan in the Paul Schrader-directed, Brett Easton Ellis-penned film waiting to see for themselves how it all turns out. The film has been greeted by all kinds of mini-scandals and buzz, and it's been something the trailers and photos are hoping to capitalize off of, and audiences are only a couple weeks away from seeing the finished product. And while verdict awaits for the movie, the soundtrack – to be released digitally at the end of July – sounds like a tribute to Cliff Martinez’s “Drive” score. The predominant songs on the soundtrack are by Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning alongside group Me&John; “The Canyons Theme” and “Without the Night” have an airy, psychedelic beat that sets the tone for...
- 7/19/2013
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Playlist
Toronto politics have historically never been of much interest to Torontonians let alone the rest of the world. But Mayor Rob Ford's ongoing crack scandal has enraptured even the self-obsessed American media, ranging from that pretentious editorial in the New Yorker to segments on NBC's “The Today Show” to late-night punchlines from Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel.
But not everyone is laughing that Rob Ford has become the sweaty (alleged crack-smoking) face of Toronto.
“It's not funny, it's embarrassing,” says Kevin Drew, singer and co-founder of Broken Social Scene, an expansive musical collective that names Feist and members of Stars and Metric among its crew and during the 2000s became Toronto’s musical ambassadors to the world. “I mean, where are our leaders? It's like there's a giant baby running the city.”
“When I was in my twenties, I might as well have tattooed Toronto on my forehead,...
But not everyone is laughing that Rob Ford has become the sweaty (alleged crack-smoking) face of Toronto.
“It's not funny, it's embarrassing,” says Kevin Drew, singer and co-founder of Broken Social Scene, an expansive musical collective that names Feist and members of Stars and Metric among its crew and during the 2000s became Toronto’s musical ambassadors to the world. “I mean, where are our leaders? It's like there's a giant baby running the city.”
“When I was in my twenties, I might as well have tattooed Toronto on my forehead,...
- 6/7/2013
- by The Huffington Post Canada
- Huffington Post
I hope you guys were watching this—Broken Social Scene reunited with original singer Leslie Feist (yes, that Feist) on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, performing "Almost Crimes" and "7/4 Shoreline" as a web exclusive. As Consequence Of Sound points out, the reunited lineup will be playing their classic 2002 album You Forgot It In People in full at Arts & Crafts' Field Trip Music & Arts Festival this weekend… so if you're a fan, stop reading this right now and get on that.
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Check out both songs below and be sure to leave a thought or two in the comments:
"Almost Crimes"
"7/4 Shoreline"
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Check out both songs below and be sure to leave a thought or two in the comments:
"Almost Crimes"
"7/4 Shoreline"
Follow Brett Warner on Twitter: @OlogyMusic + @Erasurehead...
- 6/7/2013
- by Brett Warner
- TVology
World-conquering Canadian record label Arts & Crafts is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a bang.
There's a music festival, a multi-disc label retrospective, and now a peanut butter-and-chocolate-style compilation called "Arts & Crafts: X" where acts like Feist + Timber Timbre and Broken Social Scene + Years have made collaborative songs together.
Us lucky folks at HuffPost have managed to score an exclusive listen of the Hayden & Jason Collett collaboration "Lonely Is As Lonely Does" in advance of X's May 28 release.
For his part, Hayden is giving Broken Social Scene member Collett a lot of the credit for the song.
"As I remember it, we’d been going back and forth exchanging some existing songs that we each had lying around, but nothing was really clicking. I started thinking that it just wasn’t going to happen, when out of nowhere Jason sends me this beautiful song he’d just written," says Hayden. "I...
There's a music festival, a multi-disc label retrospective, and now a peanut butter-and-chocolate-style compilation called "Arts & Crafts: X" where acts like Feist + Timber Timbre and Broken Social Scene + Years have made collaborative songs together.
Us lucky folks at HuffPost have managed to score an exclusive listen of the Hayden & Jason Collett collaboration "Lonely Is As Lonely Does" in advance of X's May 28 release.
For his part, Hayden is giving Broken Social Scene member Collett a lot of the credit for the song.
"As I remember it, we’d been going back and forth exchanging some existing songs that we each had lying around, but nothing was really clicking. I started thinking that it just wasn’t going to happen, when out of nowhere Jason sends me this beautiful song he’d just written," says Hayden. "I...
- 5/22/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
With summer just around the corner, the music industry is poised to start dropping tons of new tracks in hopes of bringing the heat -- but what to listen to on the days you don't feel like sweating it out on the dancefloor? To craft the perfect soundtrack for beating the heat, ETonline has turned to Haley Strode, star of Nickelodeon's newest hit series, Wendell & Vinnie.
"This is a compilation of what I consider to be necessary summertime tunes," Strode tells ETonline, "meant to be listened to in this order."
Tobias Froberg, Somewhere in the City
"There must be a party ... somewhere in the city." These rad lyrics help inspire a carefree summer.
The La's, There She Goes
This songs is nostalgia at its core, summer in middle school, knee socks and all.
James Brown, It's a Man's Man's Man's World
This song reminds me of a summer I lived in NYC; James Brown is a bad...
"This is a compilation of what I consider to be necessary summertime tunes," Strode tells ETonline, "meant to be listened to in this order."
Tobias Froberg, Somewhere in the City
"There must be a party ... somewhere in the city." These rad lyrics help inspire a carefree summer.
The La's, There She Goes
This songs is nostalgia at its core, summer in middle school, knee socks and all.
James Brown, It's a Man's Man's Man's World
This song reminds me of a summer I lived in NYC; James Brown is a bad...
- 4/9/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
This week's featured music video, from the 2010 album Forgiveness Rock Record by Canadian indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Well, that escalated quickly...” It begins on a gentle, bittersweet romantic note, and ends with a big, messy pile of hacked-up body parts. Ain't love like that? Broken Social Scene - Sweetest Kill Established in 1999, Broken Social Scene is well-known for their big, symphonic sound and constantly revolving lineup (which ranges from six to twenty members, depending on the project and/or tour they're working on). Despite their popular and critical success, they disbanded after the release of Forgiveness... but they recently announced that they would reunite this year to headline the Field Trip Arts & Crafts Music Festival on Saturday, June 8th, marking the tenth anniversary of their album Arts & Crafts.
- 3/20/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Once upon a time, the success of Canadian indie musicians at SXSW music festival in Austin, TX was news. The rise of Broken Social Scene, The Constantines, Metric, Stars and their ilk was often traced to a series of hype-building showcases down south that introduced our northern rockers to the rest of the world.
Flash forward a decade and SXSW is kicking off its 27th annual music festival with a series of showcases and parties that just happen to be headlined by Canadians, though the names on their passports no longer matters.
Media Temple’s big Interactive closing party, intended to embed the web-hosting company’s “dedication to creativity and innovation” in the brains of drunken partygoers, boasts an unprecedented joint-dj set between techno legend Richie Hawtin and Edm impresario Deadmau5, both of whom are also doing a panel session earlier in the day to talk tech. That they're from Windsor and Toronto,...
Flash forward a decade and SXSW is kicking off its 27th annual music festival with a series of showcases and parties that just happen to be headlined by Canadians, though the names on their passports no longer matters.
Media Temple’s big Interactive closing party, intended to embed the web-hosting company’s “dedication to creativity and innovation” in the brains of drunken partygoers, boasts an unprecedented joint-dj set between techno legend Richie Hawtin and Edm impresario Deadmau5, both of whom are also doing a panel session earlier in the day to talk tech. That they're from Windsor and Toronto,...
- 3/13/2013
- by Huffington Post Music Canada
- Huffington Post
Contemporary music has its fare share of massive group ensembles, whether it's the extended Wu-Tang family, the robe-wearing The Polyphonic Spree, the numerous branches of the Elephant 6 Collective, or the various members of the Broken Social Scene club. But we'd wager few could touch the sprawl of The Source Family. The '70s group combined the trappings of a celebrity, eccentric lifestyle that included a popular health food restaurant (a rarity at the time), scores of women, and popularity with the ideals of their leader, Father Yod. And oh yeah, they played music too, in the band Ya Ho Wa 13. Investigations into the family and its practices ultimately led to their demise, but their story has been captured in Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos' documentary "The Source Family." Featuring extensive interviews, home movies, photographs, and original music created by The Source Family themselves, the film is an eye-opening look...
- 3/5/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Indie rock band Broken Social Scene will reunite later this year as part of the Field Trip Music & Arts Festival set for Toronto's Fort York & Garrison Common on June 8.
According to Canadian Press the group will take to the stage for one-night only to celebrate their record label Arts & Crafts' 10th anniversary. They'll be part of a bill featuring Feist, Hayden and British rock group Bloc Party. Others confirmed for the bill include Ra Ra Riot, Timber Timbre and Cold Specks.
Jeffrey Remedios, the label's co-founder, said Broken Social Scene's reunion shouldn't be deemed to be a return to recording or touring.
"I think if it was in any other situation, they wouldn't necessarily come back," Remedios told Canadian Press. "Without Broken Social Scene, there would be no Arts & Crafts... The first 10 records we put out were in some way related to Broken Social Scene. So they're going to...
According to Canadian Press the group will take to the stage for one-night only to celebrate their record label Arts & Crafts' 10th anniversary. They'll be part of a bill featuring Feist, Hayden and British rock group Bloc Party. Others confirmed for the bill include Ra Ra Riot, Timber Timbre and Cold Specks.
Jeffrey Remedios, the label's co-founder, said Broken Social Scene's reunion shouldn't be deemed to be a return to recording or touring.
"I think if it was in any other situation, they wouldn't necessarily come back," Remedios told Canadian Press. "Without Broken Social Scene, there would be no Arts & Crafts... The first 10 records we put out were in some way related to Broken Social Scene. So they're going to...
- 1/14/2013
- by Huffington Post Music Canada
- Huffington Post
Broken Social Scene will come out of its musical hiatus for one night only to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its label, Arts & Crafts. Along with group member Feist, the band will co-headline the brand new Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Saturday, June 8 in Toronto. Other acts include Bloc Party, Timber Timbre, Hayden, Cold Specks, Ra Ra Riot, and Trust. Tickets, including a limited number of early-bird passes priced at $55, are available now. The fest is part of AC10, a series of events being thrown by the label to commemorate its anniversary. A full slate of the festivities ...
- 1/14/2013
- avclub.com
A number of Canadian musicians have joined forces to show their support for Idle No More, the movement of First Nations people for "healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities."
According to the CBC, Feist, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, Blue Rodeo, former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page and The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie have signed a petition backing the movement. The petition was started by Weakerthans' singer John K. Samson just before Christmas (Dec. 21) and originally sent it through various contacts.
"The response was immediate and huge, from artists of all disciplines, genres and mediums," Samson said, adding he got the idea after a conversation with his friend and writer Leanne Simpson, a member of the Alderville First Nation. "It's fundamental to how we think of ourselves and our identity and what a fair and just society should be. Artists have to be right at the forefront of that,...
According to the CBC, Feist, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, Blue Rodeo, former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page and The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie have signed a petition backing the movement. The petition was started by Weakerthans' singer John K. Samson just before Christmas (Dec. 21) and originally sent it through various contacts.
"The response was immediate and huge, from artists of all disciplines, genres and mediums," Samson said, adding he got the idea after a conversation with his friend and writer Leanne Simpson, a member of the Alderville First Nation. "It's fundamental to how we think of ourselves and our identity and what a fair and just society should be. Artists have to be right at the forefront of that,...
- 1/10/2013
- by Huffington Post Music Canada
- Huffington Post
Son of Rogue's Gallery, a compilation of songs from the seafaring tradition, will feature a grizzled crew including Keith Richards, Michael Stipe, Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan
Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Tom Waits and the Pogues' Shane MacGowan are among the contributors to a new compilation of pirate ballads. The grizzled, A-list crew was assembled by Johnny Depp, who performs on the album, and the people behind the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
First, some more names. Among the hearties who are shivering timbers on Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys: Tom Waits with Keith Richards, Michael Stipe with Courtney Love, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene, Marianne Faithful with the McGarrigle sisters, Sissy Bounce with Akron/Family, Beth Orton, Macy Gray and Sean Lennon.
The two-disc set, due next year, is the sequel to a compilation from 2006. There too, Pirates producer Hal Willner manned the tiller.
Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Tom Waits and the Pogues' Shane MacGowan are among the contributors to a new compilation of pirate ballads. The grizzled, A-list crew was assembled by Johnny Depp, who performs on the album, and the people behind the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
First, some more names. Among the hearties who are shivering timbers on Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys: Tom Waits with Keith Richards, Michael Stipe with Courtney Love, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene, Marianne Faithful with the McGarrigle sisters, Sissy Bounce with Akron/Family, Beth Orton, Macy Gray and Sean Lennon.
The two-disc set, due next year, is the sequel to a compilation from 2006. There too, Pirates producer Hal Willner manned the tiller.
- 12/7/2012
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
- 10/30/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Feist has won the 2012 Polaris Prize for her album, Metals.
The singer has been nominated for the Polaris three times in the past, once as a solo artist for her album The Reminder in 2007, and twice as a member of Broken Social Scene.
Feist beat out nine other Polaris short list nominees to win the award, including Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Drake, Kathleen Edwards, Fucked Up, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Japandroids and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan.
The Prize, which goes to the best Canadian album of the year based on "artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation," was determined by a Grand Jury of 11 music media professionals drawn from the greater Polaris jury pool of over 200 writers, editors, broadcasters, DJs and personalities from across the country.
2011 Polaris Prize winners Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire presented Feist with the prize, which included a giant novelty cheque...
The singer has been nominated for the Polaris three times in the past, once as a solo artist for her album The Reminder in 2007, and twice as a member of Broken Social Scene.
Feist beat out nine other Polaris short list nominees to win the award, including Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Drake, Kathleen Edwards, Fucked Up, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Japandroids and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan.
The Prize, which goes to the best Canadian album of the year based on "artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation," was determined by a Grand Jury of 11 music media professionals drawn from the greater Polaris jury pool of over 200 writers, editors, broadcasters, DJs and personalities from across the country.
2011 Polaris Prize winners Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire presented Feist with the prize, which included a giant novelty cheque...
- 9/25/2012
- by The Huffington Post Canada
- Huffington Post
Jason Collett -- best known as a member of Broken Social Scene -- has a new album coming out in the fall, and in anticipation of that release, he's unveiled a brand-new video for the song "I Wanna Rob a Bank."
Debuting exclusively here at HuffPost Entertainment, "I Wanna Rob a Bank" doesn't play out like an ordinary music video; as directed by Corey Ogilvie, the clip includes real-life Occupy protestors as captured by Ogilvie's cameras for his "Occupy The Movie" documentary. It's an inside look at the movement, and the "I Wanna Rob a Bank" video really manages to put a face on the protest in ways that haven't been seen before. (Expect to see Ogilvie's doc in theaters by 2013 at the latest.)
"I Wanna Rob a Bank" is the first single off Reckon, which also includes appearances from Afie Jurvanen, Basia Bulat, Kevin Drew and Zeus.
“The consistent...
Debuting exclusively here at HuffPost Entertainment, "I Wanna Rob a Bank" doesn't play out like an ordinary music video; as directed by Corey Ogilvie, the clip includes real-life Occupy protestors as captured by Ogilvie's cameras for his "Occupy The Movie" documentary. It's an inside look at the movement, and the "I Wanna Rob a Bank" video really manages to put a face on the protest in ways that haven't been seen before. (Expect to see Ogilvie's doc in theaters by 2013 at the latest.)
"I Wanna Rob a Bank" is the first single off Reckon, which also includes appearances from Afie Jurvanen, Basia Bulat, Kevin Drew and Zeus.
“The consistent...
- 8/1/2012
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
For his first feature film since 2008's "Adam Resurrected," famed screenwriter and director Paul Schrader is drawing on a particularly diverse and unique group of talent for "The Canyons." Boasting a script penned by Bret Easton Ellis with a cast featuring adult film star James Deen, Lindsay Lohan and up and comers Nolan Funk and Amanda Brook, another intriguing element has been added to the production. Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning has been selected to score "The Canyons." While the musician has found fame and acclaim both as a member of Bss and as a solo artist, he's no stranger to the movie world. Canning has scored films such as Bruce McDonald's “The Tracy Fragments” and “Trigger” as well as “Snow Cake.” And alongside Broken Social Scene, he's participated on soundtrack work for “Half Nelson”, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “It’s Kind of a...
- 7/13/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Metric haven’t had the easiest time earning respect. First they operated in the towering shadow of epic Canadian mega-band Broken Social Scene, who just so happened to release one of the finest indie-rock albums of all-time with 2002’s You Forgot it in People. But the further Metric have distanced themselves from the genre, swelling gradually into all-out arena-pop territory (and peaking in commercial viability with 2009’s Fantasies), they’ve been increasingly pegged as streamlined sell-outs. It’s unfair to criticize Metric for “going pop,” since, well, they have every right to record whatever kind of music they want. The problem is that...
- 6/19/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
We've been known to enjoy some Canadian indie-rock in these parts, so the new compilation Too Cool To Live Too Smart To Die is right up our alley. The album features members of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, and The Constantines, along with groups like Great Lake Swimmers and Hidden Cameras covering artists from the "golden age" of the country's indie scene. (The album is a companion piece to the 2011 book Have Not Been The Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, which is sort of like the Canadian version of Michael Azerad's Our Band Could Be Your ...
- 3/21/2012
- avclub.com
Kanye West by Sam Spratt
By Zachary Swickey
When digital painter Sam Spratt was a spry art college grad in June 2010, he immediately became the (first) in-house staff illustrator for popular media conglomerate Gawker. Articles boasting his work were getting plenty more hits than ones carrying boring stock photo images. Before long, Spratt was getting more commission work than he could handle and had to say goodbye to Gawker and venture out on his own. (But trust us, he’s doing just fine!)
Since his departure, Spratt has diversified his portfolio - creating merch designs for herbal enthusiast and rapper Wiz Khalifa, as well as album artwork for rockers Foxy Shazam and metal-heads Trivium. Spratt has no problem with tricky imagery, whether it’s a Renaissance period piece for a private client or his collaboration with Rovio Mobile’s super-mega-smash-hit “Angry Birds.” It seems he’s up for any type of visual challenge.
By Zachary Swickey
When digital painter Sam Spratt was a spry art college grad in June 2010, he immediately became the (first) in-house staff illustrator for popular media conglomerate Gawker. Articles boasting his work were getting plenty more hits than ones carrying boring stock photo images. Before long, Spratt was getting more commission work than he could handle and had to say goodbye to Gawker and venture out on his own. (But trust us, he’s doing just fine!)
Since his departure, Spratt has diversified his portfolio - creating merch designs for herbal enthusiast and rapper Wiz Khalifa, as well as album artwork for rockers Foxy Shazam and metal-heads Trivium. Spratt has no problem with tricky imagery, whether it’s a Renaissance period piece for a private client or his collaboration with Rovio Mobile’s super-mega-smash-hit “Angry Birds.” It seems he’s up for any type of visual challenge.
- 1/27/2012
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
News came around in September that Canadian helmer Bruce McDonald was getting to work on Highway, a supernatural thriller (ever seen one of those?) from writer Christopher Kyle. Word on it has been entirely silent in the four months since, but a big update has come at the bottom of a piece in The Halifax Chronicle Herald (via ThePlaylist), where the director reveals that he’s attempting to lock down Nicolas Cage as the lead of the film, now called Dark Highway. Casting on the project was said to be in advanced negotiations when we last reported on the film, though we can’t say for certain if those talks involved the actor himself.
And, as we also said at the time, the story centers on “a man being chased who is trying to get to a certain place in one day,” all the while unsure of “whether the situation is real or his imagination.
And, as we also said at the time, the story centers on “a man being chased who is trying to get to a certain place in one day,” all the while unsure of “whether the situation is real or his imagination.
- 1/17/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
There are few other directors -- Canadian or otherwise -- to whom music plays such a key ingredient in their work than Bruce McDonald. Joining the select ranks of folks like Cameron Crowe, Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino (though with an much more mixed output) McDonald's films are as identifiable by their musical milieu as they are by anything else. And lately, he's been rocking it pretty hard. In 2010, the ever prolific director delivered three movies: the prison centered documentary "Music From The Big House"; the Broken Social Scene powered concert film/romance "This Movie Is Broken" and the rock 'n roll reunion tale "Trigger." Heading into this year, McDonald didn't stop, with "Hard Core Logo 2" a sequel of sorts to his cult classic hitting theaters as well as the short film "A Love Supreme" whose title should be famililar to any music fan. But that's not all.
- 11/28/2011
- The Playlist
Every year, towards Christmas time, music journalists go mad about calling the Next Big Thing for the coming year – usually, they’re wrong (I once gloriously called the forthcoming success of Bloc Party, but noone believed I had). And this year is no different. Except, I feel like I’ve got a banker this time – a dead cert for fame and glory for the coming year.
We Are Augustines.
Remember the name. Though you won’t have to very soon, because they’ll be everywhere.
The the Brooklyn-based band formed by ex-Pela members Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson (with Rob Allen on drums) are currently touring with Scottish rockers Glasvegas, and that prestigious slot is befitting a musical act of their considerable potential. Look out for them in 2012, we expect major things from them inside the next twelve months.
Debut Album “Rise Ye Sunken Ships” is a monumental personal achievement...
We Are Augustines.
Remember the name. Though you won’t have to very soon, because they’ll be everywhere.
The the Brooklyn-based band formed by ex-Pela members Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson (with Rob Allen on drums) are currently touring with Scottish rockers Glasvegas, and that prestigious slot is befitting a musical act of their considerable potential. Look out for them in 2012, we expect major things from them inside the next twelve months.
Debut Album “Rise Ye Sunken Ships” is a monumental personal achievement...
- 10/25/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
By Zachary Swickey
Chart-topping songstress of the year Adele is disappointed just as much as us that she’s had to cancel her U.S. tour once again. It’s easy for fans to be upset, considering this is her second scrapped stateside tour, and there’s no immediate mention of rescheduling the dates. Although, it’s understandably imperative that she properly rests her vocal chords because it appears they never fully healed from the first tour cancellation.
Axed tours are always a bummer, especially when it’s from one of the year’s biggest acts, but she’s not the first heavy hitter forced to cancel. From Kanye to the Lollapalooza festival itself, here are five of the biggest tour cancellations that prompted a universal sigh from fans.
Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s “Fame Kills Tour”
Appropriately, Kanye West visited the ladies on talk show "The View" in...
Chart-topping songstress of the year Adele is disappointed just as much as us that she’s had to cancel her U.S. tour once again. It’s easy for fans to be upset, considering this is her second scrapped stateside tour, and there’s no immediate mention of rescheduling the dates. Although, it’s understandably imperative that she properly rests her vocal chords because it appears they never fully healed from the first tour cancellation.
Axed tours are always a bummer, especially when it’s from one of the year’s biggest acts, but she’s not the first heavy hitter forced to cancel. From Kanye to the Lollapalooza festival itself, here are five of the biggest tour cancellations that prompted a universal sigh from fans.
Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s “Fame Kills Tour”
Appropriately, Kanye West visited the ladies on talk show "The View" in...
- 10/5/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Cee Lo Green, Chiddy Bang and many others also featured at weekend's Austin City Limits Festival.
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West performs at Acl on Friday
Photo: Flanigan/ Getty Images
Austin, Texas — It was a weekend of epic beginnings and endings at the 10th annual Austin City Limits Festival, among them: Kanye West shut the lid on the operatic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy tour, Coldplay played one of the final American festival dates in the run-up to the release next month of Mylo Xyloto and perhaps most importantly for locals, Texans danced in ecstasy as the worst drought in Lone Star history got a brief reprieve thanks to some intermittent showers.
Yes, there were three days of amazing music, ranging from folk to house, blues, rock, soul and hip-hop, but along with crowd-pleasing headline sets from such legends as Stevie Wonder and rockers My Morning Jacket and festival-closers Arcade Fire,...
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West performs at Acl on Friday
Photo: Flanigan/ Getty Images
Austin, Texas — It was a weekend of epic beginnings and endings at the 10th annual Austin City Limits Festival, among them: Kanye West shut the lid on the operatic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy tour, Coldplay played one of the final American festival dates in the run-up to the release next month of Mylo Xyloto and perhaps most importantly for locals, Texans danced in ecstasy as the worst drought in Lone Star history got a brief reprieve thanks to some intermittent showers.
Yes, there were three days of amazing music, ranging from folk to house, blues, rock, soul and hip-hop, but along with crowd-pleasing headline sets from such legends as Stevie Wonder and rockers My Morning Jacket and festival-closers Arcade Fire,...
- 9/19/2011
- MTV Music News
Despite sharing their name with the term celebrity journalists apply to anyone who's ever been in television or film, the band Stars has carved out a large following. Anyone familiar with the Canadian band's blend of soothing melodies and haunting lyrics knows why: There are simply very few acts with male and female vocalists as well-matched as Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell.
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
- 7/27/2011
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
The Wooden Birds are on fire. They teased their recently released second album, "Two Matchsticks," with an Ep that featured covers of two radically different, yet equally brilliant songs -- Hall & Oates' lusty "Maneater" and Kenny Rogers and the First Edition's forlorn, "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town."
The third track on that Ep was the ditty, "Two Matchsticks," which is also the full length album's title track, and its artfully menacing video (below) was created by animator Justin Goldwater. The Wooden Birds' spark and jangle is crafted by frontman Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set, Broken Social Scene), Sean Haskins, Leslie Sisson and Matt Pond (Matt Pond Pa). The album also features special guests, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and members of Ola Podrida. "Two Matchsticks" is out now on Barsuk.
The Wooden Birds On Tour:
6/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (18+)
6/18 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar (21+)
6/19 - Santa Cruz,...
The third track on that Ep was the ditty, "Two Matchsticks," which is also the full length album's title track, and its artfully menacing video (below) was created by animator Justin Goldwater. The Wooden Birds' spark and jangle is crafted by frontman Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set, Broken Social Scene), Sean Haskins, Leslie Sisson and Matt Pond (Matt Pond Pa). The album also features special guests, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and members of Ola Podrida. "Two Matchsticks" is out now on Barsuk.
The Wooden Birds On Tour:
6/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (18+)
6/18 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar (21+)
6/19 - Santa Cruz,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
While Andrew Kenny has worked with a wide range of bands—Arthur & Yu, Her Space Holiday, and Broken Social Scene—he’s best known for his work fronting American Analog Set. He draws most from that band for his newest project, Wooden Birds. The result isn’t the most sonically adventurous work Kenny’s created, but it’s a formula that works well. Picking up where the band’s 2009 debut, Magnolia, left off, Two Matchsticks maintains Wooden Birds’ distinct sound: hushed vocals over low, chugging acoustic guitars with lockstep percussion, including the occasional maracas. But the new set of ...
- 6/14/2011
- avclub.com
No it's not a feature or even a TV pilot, but it's still pretty fun to watch Bijou Phillips tear into her lover with an axe in this gory video for Broken Social Scene's "Sweetest Kill." I've had a sweet spot for her since James Toback's criminally under-seen Black & White ("I was at the libary") so it's at least nice to see she's still alive. The video is directed by up and coming director Claire Edmondson who also directed this very Nsfw video for the band Austra. Put these two videos together and we might have a TV pilot after all. Thx Playlist...
- 6/10/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Broken Social Scene takes an uncharacteristically dark turn with this video for "Sweetest Kill" off last year's "Forgiveness Rock Record." With the woozy song as backdrop, occasionally serving as dialogue, a twisted woman played by Bijou Phillips plots her lovers demise and executes her bloody plan with an axe and hand saw.
She first poisons her lover's wine and dances with him until he succumbs on the floor of her hazy living room. Then, in a scene reminiscent of "American Psycho," she hacks at him with a giant axe in shots that would make "Braveheart" era Mel Gibson jealous. It's all for those pretty white roses she grows out back in her wicked, sensuous soil.
Warning: This video contains graphic imagery and hacked apart limbs that may not be suitable for all.
Broken Social Scene will be supporting TV On The Radio for two weeks at the end of their late summer tour in September.
She first poisons her lover's wine and dances with him until he succumbs on the floor of her hazy living room. Then, in a scene reminiscent of "American Psycho," she hacks at him with a giant axe in shots that would make "Braveheart" era Mel Gibson jealous. It's all for those pretty white roses she grows out back in her wicked, sensuous soil.
Warning: This video contains graphic imagery and hacked apart limbs that may not be suitable for all.
Broken Social Scene will be supporting TV On The Radio for two weeks at the end of their late summer tour in September.
- 6/9/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
If you are not familiar with Broken Social Scene than you most likely don’t listen to the same type of music as me. The Canadian supergroup includes as few as six and as many as nineteen members with contributions by such artists as Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Bill Priddle, Leslie Feist, Jessica Moss and Evan Cranley, Amy Milan, Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, and Emily Haines—to name a few. The band’s music features a very large number of sounds, grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style. Since wooing fans and critics alike with their 2003 Juno Award-winning album You Forgot It in People, the band’s popularity has made them such big stars that in 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken, a film about the band’s Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike.Their newest video...
- 6/9/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
In case you're not hip to such things, Broken Social Scene are a Canadian indie rock supergroup best known for their collective good time, love-in vibe and expansive jams. But their newest video for "Sweetest Kill" from their latest album Forgiveness Rock Record abandons that image altogether. Starring Bijou Phillips (where has she been?), the spot directed by Claire Edmondson plays out almost like an episode of "Dexter." It starts off looking like a gauzy romantic vid, before the plastic is brought out and limbs are being sawed off. It's actually pretty graphic and this may not be something you…...
- 6/9/2011
- The Playlist
The Silent League's amorphous nature and malleable identity makes a record of covers and remixes by collaborators and admirers entirely fitting. Formed in Brooklyn in 2004 by then Mercury Rev keyboardist, Justin Russo, the band has included members of Arcade Fire, Beirut, Stars Like Fleas, and Bishop Allen among others.
Their latest release, "We Go Forward" is largely inspired by remixes from their 3rd album, "But You've Always Been The Caretaker" featuring newly remixed efforts of friends and allies like Neon Indian and Memory Tapes. There's also a couple covers -- The Chameleons' 80's classic, "Tears" and a superior variety of Broken Social Scene's "Texico Bitches."
Stream the full album, out now on Something In Construction, here:
We Go Forward by TheSilentLeague...
Their latest release, "We Go Forward" is largely inspired by remixes from their 3rd album, "But You've Always Been The Caretaker" featuring newly remixed efforts of friends and allies like Neon Indian and Memory Tapes. There's also a couple covers -- The Chameleons' 80's classic, "Tears" and a superior variety of Broken Social Scene's "Texico Bitches."
Stream the full album, out now on Something In Construction, here:
We Go Forward by TheSilentLeague...
- 5/18/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes and Cee Lo also on September 16-18 bill.
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
We told you yesterday about how the 10th anniversary edition of the Austin City Limits Festival was trying to shake things up by slowly revealing its lineup through a low-tech "Lineup Lottery" scratch-card game that had coughed up the names of a few participants: Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo and Chromeo.
Then the June issue of Spin magazine revealed that Kanye West and Stevie Wonder would also be joining the September 16-18 party in Austin's Zilker Park.
But on Tuesday (May 17), the festival finally tipped its entire hand, and in addition to newly announced fave Kanye, the festival will also be serving up headline sets from Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, and Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Among the 130 bands on the bill are Bright Eyes,...
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
We told you yesterday about how the 10th anniversary edition of the Austin City Limits Festival was trying to shake things up by slowly revealing its lineup through a low-tech "Lineup Lottery" scratch-card game that had coughed up the names of a few participants: Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo and Chromeo.
Then the June issue of Spin magazine revealed that Kanye West and Stevie Wonder would also be joining the September 16-18 party in Austin's Zilker Park.
But on Tuesday (May 17), the festival finally tipped its entire hand, and in addition to newly announced fave Kanye, the festival will also be serving up headline sets from Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, and Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Among the 130 bands on the bill are Bright Eyes,...
- 5/17/2011
- MTV Music News
Remember when "American Idol" producers promised non-restrictive, decade-based theme weeks for Season 10?
Well, Wednesday night the top six sang from the Carole King songbook!
As a way to fill 90 minutes an added bonus, the top six paired off for duets in which the girls sounded flawless and the boys sounded like constipated donkeys. But Omg, the boys are so cute! Brb, power-texting.
Between Constantine, Carole King('s daughter) and Brad Garrett, there were famous faces at every turn in the "Idol" crowd. But I can't go another second without shouting out Penny Marshall in the front row, dressed like Ozzy Osbourne imitating Lady Gaga's "Fame" album cover. Marshall was placed right behind Randy, who was obviously paying homage to Laverne's initial-laden bowling shirt. (That Randy Jackson mensch loves his classic sitcoms.)
Before I go on a rant about showmances, let me quickly remind you to check out "Idol Party Live" at noon Et,...
Well, Wednesday night the top six sang from the Carole King songbook!
As a way to fill 90 minutes an added bonus, the top six paired off for duets in which the girls sounded flawless and the boys sounded like constipated donkeys. But Omg, the boys are so cute! Brb, power-texting.
Between Constantine, Carole King('s daughter) and Brad Garrett, there were famous faces at every turn in the "Idol" crowd. But I can't go another second without shouting out Penny Marshall in the front row, dressed like Ozzy Osbourne imitating Lady Gaga's "Fame" album cover. Marshall was placed right behind Randy, who was obviously paying homage to Laverne's initial-laden bowling shirt. (That Randy Jackson mensch loves his classic sitcoms.)
Before I go on a rant about showmances, let me quickly remind you to check out "Idol Party Live" at noon Et,...
- 4/28/2011
- by Jim Cantiello
- MTV Newsroom
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