![]() ![]() Rock n’ roll has taken its course over the years, but he’s comfortable. In his blazer and white v-neck, Drew looks like a distant cousin of Father John Misty. A few minutes later, an order of buffalo wings arrives at the table. It’s the little things.”ĭrew, who turned 40 last September, is tearing into a kale salad at the Holloway, a bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “You have to sit in this regurgitated joke and find the light. “Revolution means shit to me,” says Drew of what it will take us to get through the currently tense global climate. And the state of the United States is just as exhausting as it was then, much to the annoyance of Broken Social Scene cofounder Kevin Drew. Fifteen years later, as indie kids who daydreamed to “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” have their own children, the band is about to return with a new album, Hug of Thunder. The satellite bands found success in their own right-most notably Feist, who became a superduperstar after "1234" scored an Apple ad-and Broken Social Scene became a supergroup created in reverse, a bigger deal than many bands in their milieu. Their ambitious, cross-genre sound was bound together by an irrepressibly romantic spirit, embodying the noise and angst of a generation coming of age under the worst American president of a then-teenager's lifetime. A wildly positive review of the band's You Forgot It in People on a budding Pitchfork more or less put them on the map in 2002, and file-sharing spread their music faster than a major label could. One of the biggest acts to benefit from the internet’s indie rock boom was Toronto's Broken Social Scene, a collective of at least twelve musicians all with their own bands - Stars, Metric, Do Say Make Think, Apostle of Hustle-who had come together like a Canadian Voltron. ![]() While New York's rock scene boomed as the city recovered from the World Trade Center attacks, indie bands from scenes relatively unplugged from the major label circuit could suddenly get their music out with a few clicks of a button. The group’s fifth full-length offering, Forgiveness Rock Record, arrived in May 2010.At the turn of the millennium, the internet was a new and novel discovery vehicle for music outside the usual routes. In 2007, Kevin Drew released the first installment in a series of "Broken Social Scene Presents" solo outings called Spirit If…, followed in 2008 by Brendan Canning’s Something for All of Us., both of which featured appearances from nearly all the other members of the band. A joint North American tour with Feist followed its release. Additional contributions by select members of Stars, Metric, Do Make Say Think, Raising the Fawn, the Dears, and others contributed to the ambitious sounds of Broken Social Scene. For the band's 2005 self-titled studio album, Broken Social Scene once again joined producer David Newfeld. In order to maintain praise from critics, the band issued its first ever B-sides and rarities collection, Bee Hives, in spring 2004. A surprise, however, coincided with those plans in spring 2003 when Broken Social Scene won a Juno for Alternative Album of the Year for You Forgot It in People. You Forgot It in People was a buzz among indie cohorts, and plans for a stateside release on Arts & Crafts was slated for the following summer. Jason Collett, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, and Leslie Feist fulfilled the band's bombastic, orchestrated sound, and critics loved it. By the time their guitar-fueled sophomore effort, You Forgot It in People, was released in fall 2002, Broken Social Scene had become an 11-piece collective. Drew's fellow mate from Do Make Say Think, Charles Spearin, was added to the band, as well as Evan Cranley (Stars), James Shaw, and Emily Haines (Metric). Feel Good Lost marked their debut album in 2001 and introduced a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto and the dynamic was great. Accidental's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock soundīroken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C.
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