Broken Social Scene: Halfway Home Arts Weekly April 4, 2018 Features, Interviews Broken Social Scene proved they are anything but broken with their return on 2017’s album, Hug of Thunder. Despite having not released a new album since their hiatus in 2010, each brass-laced beat remain... Read More...
Broken Social Scene: Well Armed JJ Koczan September 5, 2011 Goings-On If you missed it, amorphous Canadian collective Broken Social Scene recently premiered a video for the song “Sweetest Kill” from last year’s Forgiveness Rock Record. Hardly living up to the “forgiveness” part o... Read More...
Interview with Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene: Death Defying John Fortunato May 6, 2010 Interviews 5 A utopian collection of Canadian friends and associates, whose side projects also draw attention, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene came into fruition under the tutelage of de facto leaders Kevin Drew and Brendan C... Read More...
Interview with Charles Spearin: Happiness Is Love Elisabeth McGuirk December 7, 2009 Interviews 2 There’s a lot of melodic potential, it turns out, in the human voice, as much as in, say, a piano. Or a sax. Or a harp. Charles Spearin, of Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene, began experimenting with pe... Read More...
Charles Spearin: The Happiness Project Elisabeth McGuirk November 23, 2009 Albums 1 Last year, Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene casually interviewed his neighbors in downtown Toronto about happiness. Spearin, a practicing Buddhist, was not only interested in what his neighbors had to say... Read More...
