Broken Social Scene

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Toronto, Canada (1999 – present)

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock supergroup formed in 1999 in Toronto, Canada.

The band’s core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band’s ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost, in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin and Bill Priddle. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on Feel Good Lost, which was an almost entirely instrumental album.

As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene — Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, Metric’s Emily Haines and Leslie Feist — to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, the band also came to include contributions from James Shaw, Evan Cranley, John Crossingham, Lisa Lobsinger and Stars’ Amy Millan.

All of the later guest musicians joined with Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band’s second album, You Forgot It in People, in 2002 on the label Arts & Crafts. This album, an eclectic, restlessly creative collection of experimental yet accessible pop songs, became the band’s critical and commercial breakthrough — it was greeted with ecstatic reviews, and landed on many music critics’ year-end Best-Of lists. More notably it won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003.

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Top Tracks

1	7/4 (Shoreline)	4,600
2	Lover's Spit full track	4,066
3	Swimmers full track	3,579
4	Stars and Sons full track	3,526
5	Cause = Time full track	3,094
6	Looks Just Like the Sun full track	3,091
7	KC Accidental full track	2,973
8	Fire Eye'd Boy full track	2,852
9	Capture the Flag full track	2,722
10	Pacific Theme full track	2,704
11	Shampoo Suicide full track	2,591
12	Our Faces Split the Coast in Half full track	2,514
13	Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl	2,433
14	Major Label Debut full track	2,339
15	Windsurfing Nation full track	2,328

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me-pawel wrote:
yesterday evening

Digging the new picture!

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groovefletcher wrote:
yesterday morning

please please please, come to europe soon... we're waiting for you a long time.

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Mos_ki wrote:
yesterday morning

the better instrumental band!

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radiotim7 wrote:
Monday evening

it's all gonna break!

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skazzembar wrote:
Monday morning

http://www.last.fm/music/Loveless+whizzkid

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lulumiami wrote:
last week

SECRET MACHINES ANNOUNCE GARAGE BAND REMIX CONTEST featuring "Atomic Heels" !! Get a sneak peak of Brandon Curtis at Electric Lady Studios as he prepared the track last month. Complete details of the contest and exclusive video footage to follow next week !! www.thesecretmachines.com

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enriquezlastfm wrote:
last week

really like their piano!

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Ka3aH wrote:
last week

why aren't sonic youth one of the similar bands?

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gileadroad wrote:
last week

hey have you checked out Figg yet? great sublime sounds from Robin and Gilden

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LeLarsch wrote:
last week

Are these guys still alive? Time for a new album, I say.

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gennyisrad wrote:
last week

just starting to get back into them again. amazing.

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gbrl_ wrote:
last week

does anyone know if any band is opening for them @ the club cinema show in november in FL? thanks!

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ascosby wrote:
last week

<3

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Maxshtorm wrote:
last week

http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Stam - wunderschöne musik !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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alex0rr wrote:
last week

just heard this band a couple of days ago for the first time, love it :)

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smichaLek wrote:
last week

words cannot even describe how amazing this music is

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ThisIsJord wrote:
last week

that was the biggest waste of my life listening to that song

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fish34 wrote:
last week

Probably my favorite band ever. Completely changed my life for the better.

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aznfyrepixie wrote:
last week

This is band is one of the few reasons why I'm still able to focus on life, I'm not saying BSS saved my life, because they haven't. It's more like, the unstructured vibrancy of their songs helps me remember that there are still beautiful parts of this world to hear and see and feel.

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elektraisonfire wrote:
last month

Guys, please, como to EUROPE!

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Oct 9 Broken Social Scene Vic Theatre, Chicago, United States
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