As mentioned, it’s hard to get a complete picture of Forgiveness Rock Record from just a couple tracks. These YouTube teasers from the upcoming album do help you picture the elephant a bit better, though. Each is set against a short clip from a classic film (Ghost is a modern classic). Their past albums were [...]

Stars’ fifth album The Five Ghosts, their first since 2007’s In Our Bedroom After The War, is out the end of June on their new Soft Revolution imprint. (DIY.) All five band members wrote and recorded the collection in Montreal (and Broken Social Scenester/Apostle Of Hustler Andrew Whiteman, who also has his own things going [...

Last month you had a chance to listen to/mull over the swelling “World Sick,” the first official taste of Broken Social Scene’s John McEntire-helmed Forgiveness Rock Record. As you know, BSS includes a number of cooks, i.e. you’re not going to comprehend the arc of any collection based on a single track, e...

Toronto collective will now also play shows in June and July

A big week for Broken Social Scene fans: First you found medicine in “World Sick” and now, as we once mentioned in a footnote to an editorial, Feist performed a one-off at the Orpheum in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The set included a new one, “He Was Free.” As a pre-teen she performed [...]