They also performed with breakout member Feist on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a couple days prior to the reunion.īroken Social Scene’s upcoming show dates take the band to Chicago on Thursday and Friday and then they head to New York for two appearances. The band’s last shows together were in 2011, though they performed a one-night live reunion in 2013 when they headlined Toronto’s Field Trip festival to mark their Arts & Crafts label’s 10th anniversary. According to the statement, the set of shows are the group’s only live appearances scheduled for 2016. While they didn’t provide many details about the follow-up to their last album, 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record, the Canadian indie-rock collective did unveil a set of live dates. “It’s true, we’re working on a new album,” the group tweeted, adding that they would be performing in Chicago this week. They revealed the news via a statement and also confirmed that they’re penning new music on Twitter. It will stay this way until we stop doing it.Broken Social Scene have announced that they are working on a new album. And we’re honoring that we’re doing it now. We’re putting a lot of work and time and focus into it, because it’s what we want to do. We’re trying to play for as many people as we can. It gets the people in front of you, and as we are coming back, we’re coming back fighting an uphill battle to say, “We’ve been here for a long time.” We want people to come out. But the unified feeling of being with this band and going out. It’s just something where you have more control and more say over it. That’s why we stopped and took time off was to just say, “Hey here’s what life looks like without it.”Īll the other projects that aren’t side projects, that are main projects of people’s lives, they’re there for the same reason of expression. Send a request to Broken Social Scene to play in your city. Browse 2023 tour dates, venue details, concert reviews, photos, and more at Bandsintown.
It goes against the whole reason why we’re doing it in the first place. Find tickets for Broken Social Scene concerts near you.
If you’re not feeling it, you can’t force it. We had great years coming out of the gates. How have you navigated that in the past? Are you ever like, “I wish you were available for Broken Social Scene” or is it like, “You gotta do your own thing?”īC: It’s just one of the inevitabilities of this band. So many people have their own side projects and maybe they're even main projects now. So we haven’t really had any celebratory dinners on this tour. We’ve been doing six shows in a row with one day off in between, so when that day off appears everyone just scatters and does their own thing. We did that in the past and it was hilarious and fun and crazy, but it becomes more work.
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We’re a family!” So who better to tell us how to travel than a band that has, for the better part of two decades, toured the world as a big, complicated family? GQ sat down with band members Kevin Drew, Ariel Engle, and Brendan Canning. At one point, a dozen people are on stage, all to produce the lush and layered rock sound of Broken Social Scene.ĭuring the show at Brooklyn Steel, Kevin Drew declares, “We’re not a rock band. The show this evening will sometimes feature as many as four horns, other times five guitars. The configuration changes from album to album, from tour to tour, and even individual shows have more personnel changes than an NFL offense. But that just comes with the territory for this band. The band was simply made up of a lot of people-27 different people over two decades-many of whom would break off to form some of the late aughts sharpest acts: Feist, Metric, Stars, just to name a few.Īs those acts have grown from side projects to main projects, the makeup of Broken Social Scene has changed. And I don't mean that in the sense that they were indie rock's most influential outfit and Toronto's musical touchstone a decade before Drake (though both things are true). If you don't get it, let me explain it to you (that'll definitely make the joke funny): Broken Social Scene was a big band. There's this joke from the early 2000s: in Canada, you either play hockey or you join Broken Social Scene.
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