Toronto collective to play one-off headline show in May

Reuters - Members of Broken Social Scene, Iron & Wine, Sun Kil Moon, Ron Sexsmith and Joan As Police Woman are among the artists confirmed to appear at a concert celebrating the music of Neil Young as part of the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics.

This countrified cover of Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" shows up on Amy Millan's second solo album Masters Of The Burial. The Broken Social Scene/Stars singer's been performing it live for years, but this is the first studio version of the somber Plans song. Her new collection also includes covers of songs by two very C...

Broken Social Scene's half-speed, richly atmospheric Kevin Drew-fronted and piano-sprinkled take on "Love Will Tear Us Apart" shows up in that saccharine-seeming tear-jerking adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. BSS make a cameo in the film as a wedding band offering up the couple the...

Earlier this morning it was Kate from Toronto on the Broken Social Scene beat. Here, a reader named Renee witnessed new Spoon during the band's three-night stand at Stubb's (7/9-11) and thought to forward the details (thanks, readers). The new songs were "I Saw The Light" and "Mystery Zone" plus "I Love Forever?" We have proof of the latter: It'...