Drummer Justin Peroff’s playing was bold and precise with quick fills and hi-hat work, a style complimented by the well-mixed bass, a rotating role that sometimes included two players at once. The first couple of songs also established the excellent rhythm section that anchored the band all night. You can also see photos from a fall 2017 Broken Social Scene show right here. Broken Social Scene is celebrating their 20th anniversary with two shows at Massey Hall The sprawling Toronto music collective is one of the most influential indie rock bands of the past two. Broken Social Scene released their third full-length album, Broken Social Scene, also produced by Newfeld, in October 2005, with new contributors including k-os, Jason Tait and Murray Lightburn. Broken Social Scene Cover Tom Waits’ I Don’t Want to Grow Up: Listen by: Braudie Blais-Billie DecemWatch Broken Social Scene’s Satirical New Vanity Pail Kids Video by: Jazz. Next came “ 7/4 (Shoreline)” with the remaining two members of the Broken Social Scene entourage, vocalists Amy Millan (notably of Stars) and Ariel Engle, who were fixtures for the remainder of the evening, singing both lead and backup vocals and helping to cover the on-record contributions of Emily Haines and Feist, who are not on tour with the band. Read our review of the record here, grab a copy here and see Broken Social Scene’s spring tour dates below. The three guitarists and bassist/co-founder Brendan Canning used the majestic wordless sections of the song to strike their best rock star poses, raising their instruments to the sky, much to the crowd’s delight. The show hit the ground running with the driving “ KC Accidental” off People, a move that got the excited crowd dancing from the get-go. Their new single Half-Way Home, was part of their latest album due to be released later in 2017. The band returned in 2017 with a tour of Europe, Canada, and California. The band exuded genuine camaraderie-sharing mics, harmonizing, and playfully interacting in between songs, constantly rotating instruments and stage positions. Broken Social Scene released their third full-length, self-titled album on October 4, 2005, with new contributors including k-os, Jason Tait and Murray Lightburn. Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is everything that happened in between. “I’m 41 years old and I’m in a handclap band with my friends!” de facto band spokesman Kevin Drew exclaimed with gleeful disbelief. (2005), the rapturous Forgiveness Rock Record (2010), and the intricate, insidiously melodic Hug of Thunder (2017), Broken Social Scene have amassed a thrillingly amorphous, unpredictable body of work. In the six years since their last tour, Broken Social Scene have definitively graduated to elder statesmen status in the post-Internet indie rock boom that nurtured their early success.
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