Broken Social Scene
Home For The Holidays Charity Concert To Include Sloan's Chris Murphy, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, & More
Home For The Holidays Charity Concert To Include Sloan's Chris Murphy, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, & More Sloan, Dan Mangan, Said The Whale and Charles Spearin are among the artists who have laid down Christmas or holiday songs for a compilation, Home For The Holidays, put out by Toronto’s Arts & Crafts label, and to help promote…
Broken Social Scene Beerfest Money to Go to Danforth Shooting Victims
Broken Social Scene Beerfest Money to Go to Danforth Shooting Victims Broken Social Scene — photo credit: Norman Wong At their Festival of Beer concert tonight at Toronto’s Bandshell Park (July 26), alt-rock collective Broken Social Scene will join in the fundraising efforts for the victims of Sunday’s Danforth Avenue shooting that killed two people and…
Unison Holiday Schmoozefest Raises $20K for Music Industry Emergency Fund
Unison Holiday Schmoozefest Raises $20K for Music Industry Emergency Fund Slaight Music's Derrick Ross; Mr. and Mrs. Claus; artist manager Bermie Breen — photo credit: Unision FB page.If you gathered dozens and dozens of the nation’s top music professionals in a room, you’d expect it to be a schmooze fest – and that’s how it was on Dec. 12 at the Spice…
Stars' Amy Millan Gets Award For Seed Saving Campaign Featuring Feist, Sam Roberts
Stars' Amy Millan Gets Award For Seed Saving Campaign Featuring Feist, Sam Roberts O
Jason Collett’s Revue To Focus on Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women
Jason Collett’s Revue To Focus on Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women Jason Collett — photo credit: Matt Barnes.Solo artist and Broken Social Scene member Jason Collett is going against his tradition of not revealing the performers for his annual Basement Revue in an effort to get as many people out as possible to the Dec. 18 show at Toronto’s Opera House…
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table This ping pong table, backstage at Toronto's Field Day music festival, has been signed by various artists on the bill and is up for auction on SPiN Toronto — photo credit: Andrew Williamson.A high-end ping pong table signed by Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches and many of the…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
Soccer Rockers & Olympians Kick In Dough
Soccer Rockers & Olympians Kick In Dough Olympic medalist Adam van Koeverden holds cup; Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning (in white shirt) is a good sport — photo credit: Peter Vipavec.Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning, Great Big Sea’s Murray Foster, Bedouin Soundclash’s Eon Sinclair and four-time Olympic medalist Adam van Koeverden joined…
Rockers & Rollers Play The Field For NXNE Queen & Beaver Cup
Rockers & Rollers Play The Field For NXNE Queen & Beaver Cup The Rockers vs The Rollers - musicians from such bands as Broken Social Scene, Flashing Lights and Bedouin Soundclash and media from such outlets as ET Canada, CBC and Report On Business - lace up their cleats, throw on their jerseys, and go on the attack again for the annual North By…
Andy Kim Christmas Show Taps Sam Roberts, Alex Lifeson, Sarah Harmer, Finger Eleven, BSS, And More
Andy Kim Christmas Show Taps Sam Roberts, Alex Lifeson, Sarah Harmer, Finger Eleven, BSS, And More Andy Kim (far right) is joined onstage by Ron Sexsmith (with scarf), Sean Cullen (holding mic) and others, at a past Andy Kim Christmas Concert. This year's concert takes place at the Phoenix Concert Theatre December 14An impressive group of admirers,…
Rush's Alex Lifeson, Ron Sexsmith, Platinum Blonde Join Andy Kim Xmas Concert
Rush's Alex Lifeson, Ron Sexsmith, Platinum Blonde Join Andy Kim Xmas Concert (L to R) Hedley's Tommy MacDonald, Andy Kim and Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning at the 2009 Andy Kim Christmas ShowOnce again, legendary singer-songwriter Andy Kim has rounded up an impressive line-up of talent to join him at his annual charity concert in Toronto.…
Musicians Vs. Media In NXNE Charity Soccer Match
Musicians Vs. Media In NXNE Charity Soccer Match Bedouin Soundclash's Eon Sinclair and CARAS's Jane Tattersall tussle for the ball with Universal Music Canada's Tyson Parker (left), Designer Guys' Anwar Mukhayesh and Barenaked Ladies' Jim Creegan (far right) following the playMembers of Broken Social Scene, Great Big Sea and Bedouin Soundclash are among…
Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download
Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50+ musicians which covered K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake, remains at No. 1 on the SoundScan Hot Digital Songs chart for the fourth week in a row and has sold 80,000 downloads…