Kevin Drew checks in with a blog post from Soma studio in Chicago, where BSS are working on a proper followup to Broken Social Scene with Tortoise/Sea & Cake/Chicago-scene hero John McEntire. Also there's gonna be a BSS book! Get caught up.

So many actors getting work on Stereogum today. The new Feist video for The Reminder's fluid and spacious gem "The Water" is a 15 minute piece written and directed by Kevin Drew and starring David Fox, Cillian Murphy, and Leslie. Back in 2007, Kevin Drew interviewed Cillian for Under The Radar and bonded with the thespian over their shared Irish...

Metric are lightening up. A little. While the Toronto-based band's music has always leaned toward the upbeat-- shock-treatment new wave, dance, and rock-- its worldview is usually anything but. Whether singer and main lyricist Emily Haines is railing against war ("Succexy"), stagnant art ("Dead Disco"), or an increasingly overbearing world ("The...

Wow. Somebody really needs to buy Stars frontman Torquil Campbell a punching bag or a Bop It or something. Because otherwise the glammed-out Canadian indie pop singer will keep venting his rage via MySpace posts, and nobody needs that. First he let loose a classic now-deleted MySpace rant against my esteemed Pitchfork News colleague Ryan Domba...

-- Dallas Broken Social Scene fans, this is not your day. The Canadian indie rock powerhouse just canceled their show at Dallas's House of Blues tonight, January 30, due to illness. Please don't blame the messenger. Refunds and rescheduling info will be posted on the band's site. The current BSS tour-- in support of Something for All of Us...--...