The other day Conan covered “Creep.” Last night at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, Thom Yorke and his Atoms For Peace did up Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” something they didn’t do up at Roseland last week. (It’s a more straightforwardly satisfying take than the one Bro...

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