 | You can view an interesting interview by Ryan Schreiber to Broken Social Scene (read last album's reviews on Rock-Rev) for Pitchfork, click on the link below... "It's been an eventful three years for Toronto collective Broken Social Scene. Since the 2002 release of their landmark second album, You Forgot It in People, they've become one of indie rock's most popular and beloved bands, toured the world countless times over, seen members split off to form successful bands in their own right, |
signed (and been released from) a major label record deal, issued a b-sides album, recorded a film soundtrack, broken up three times, been beaten by police and jailed, fought, obsessed, and struggled, and recorded enough material for three albums. We sat down this fall for interviews with co-frontmen Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, and producer David Newfeld, to see how they survived the carnage.
Pitchfork: To the casual observer, it might not seem that there was a long break between You Forgot It in People and the new album. When did you start work?
Kevin Drew: We never really stopped recording. I'd say we were back in spring of 2003.
Dave Newfeld: The previous album came out in late 2002, so really we started working in earnest in 2003 on it. In the meantime, we scored a film, the band was touring like crazy, and I made the Apostle of Hustle record. Everyone had their lives, had good things happen, bad things. Relationships start, relationships end. Circumstances change. Nothing's static. All that stuff gets put onto the CD indirectly. " (...)
Complete interview here.
Black Mountain Not At War With Broken Social Scene
extract from ChartAttack:
"The world sure would be a boring place without a little competition, right? Leafs and Habs. Lindsay and Hilary. Aniston and Jolie. Anton and Courtney. Hogan and, well, just about every wrestler from the last 20 years.
So here at ChartAttack, where we love to stir the pot, we went digging to find a bit of good ol' fashioned warring between some of our country's music tribes. And what better place to start than with the indie scene? How does a little west coast vs. east coast action grab ya?
We all know what happened when the soldiers of the Broken Social Scene army unleashed You Forgot It In People, forcing the rest of the country to take notice that the east had begun its conquering and plundering. This year the west coast finally started to push back (we're not counting the New Pornographers, of course, since they'd simply be too happy and bouncy to want to wage war) when Vancouver's Black Mountain dropped their debut full-length. The subsequent, and almost immediate, attention they garnered was eerily similar to that which BSS received south of the border over the past two years. " (...)
Complete article here
TOUR DATES
Tuesday November 29, 2005 London, UK Barfly
Thursday December 1, 2005 Vienna, Austria Szene Wien
Friday December 2, 2005 Fribourg, Switzerland Fri-Son
Saturday December 3, 2005 Munich , Germany Feierwerk
Monday December 5, 2005 Berlin, Germany Postbahnhof
Tuesday December 6, 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark Loppen
Wednesay December 7, 2005 Stockholm, Sweden Kagelbanan
Thursday December 8, 2005 Oslo, Norway John Dee
Saturday December 10, 2005 Hamburg, Germany Knust
Sunday December 11, 2005 Frankfurt, Germany Mousonturm
Tuesday December 13, 2005 Cologne, Germany Prime Club
Wednesday December 14, 2005 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg
Thursday December 15, 2005 Brussels, Belgium Ab Box
Friday December 16, 2005 Paris, France La Maroquinerie
Saturday December 17, 2005 Den Haag, Netherlands State X New Forms Festival
Monday December 19, 2005 London, UK Cargo
Friday January 20, 2006 Toronto, ON The Koolhaus($25)
Saturday January 21, 2006 Toronto, ON The Koolhaus($25)
Friday January 27, 2006 New York, NY Webster Hall($25)
Saturday January 28, 2006 New York, NY Webster Hall($25)
Saturday February 25, 2006 Brisbane, Australia The Zoo
Tuesday February 28, 2006 Melbourne, Australia The Corner Hotel
Thursday March 2, 2006 Perth, Australia Perth International Arts Festival
Saturday March 4, 2006 Sydney, Australia Metro Theatre
source: broken social scene website
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