Jason Collett Reckon/Essential Cuts (Arts & Crafts) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars From the upbeat jaunty reggae of “I Want to Rob a Bank” to the moody introspection of “When Things Go Wrong” and the lovely string quartet enhanced “Pacific Blue,” Toronto’s Jason Collett is difficult to musically pigeonhole. There are clear references to [...]

  A comprehensive look at this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, TX. Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Stevie Wonder, Cold War Kids and many more performed during the 3-day festival.

TV on The Radio And Broken Social Scene At The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN 9/14/2011 Broken Social Scene strolled ten deep onto the stage to a surprisingly small crowd. As the crowd grew, they came in and remained standing. BSS built their set up with great groove and intensity through subtlety. With as many as [...]

Broken Social Scene and TV On The Radio play Nashville’s Mother Church.

Skip Matheny— currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle and former bartender in a retirement community — caught up with James Shaw of Toronto-based indie-rockers Metric, before their set at the Lollapalooza in Chicago. Metric’s primary songwriters are Broken Social Scene alumni James Shaw and Emily Haines. (all below photo credits: Timshel Matheny) What’s [...]

Last weekend, the Pitchfork Festival again graced Chicago and Union Park with its presence. Now in its 5th year, Pitchfork has gained a reputation as that other Chicago festival of note — the less corporate, less main-stream, and therefore more hip festival to Perry Farrell’s Lollapalooza that hits Grant Park in August. Unlike other larger [...]

Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record Arts & Crafts Rating: It is exceptionally easy to love Broken Social Scene for a number of reasons: they make accessible and challenging art-pop, collectively they’re unequivocally prolific, they’re Canadian, and whether they like it or not they’re easily the most iconic and continuously-evolving indie super-group around. The list [...]

NPR’s Exclusive First Listen series is the gift that keeps on giving. Right now, you can preview new albums from bar-hopping indie-rockers The Hold Steady (Heaven Is Whenever) and celebrated Canadian collective Broken Social Scene (Forgiveness Rock Record). You’ll also find a stream for the latest Merle Haggard album, I Am What I Am. Next [...]

Feist Needs a Break

Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene talks about his hopes…