![]() ![]() “You’re in the same fuckin’ band traveling in buses, and you have to live with everyone’s bullshit everyday. Seven years older than Drew, he comes off like a sanguine scenester who’s seen it all. “I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to go through all these channels when it comes to my passion anymore,” he said. In a 2013 interview, he described himself as “frustrated and bothered” with the Forgiveness Rock Record tour, and said their risk-averse schedule had stifled his his creativity and willingness to gamble. Their hiatus was nonchalantly announced not long after, though Drew eventually admitted his diminished enthusiasm for the endeavor. Generally speaking, it’s for upper-middle class parents young and old who’re looking for a nice weekend where they can drink to moderation and then watch Jeff Goldblum’s jazz ensemble.įorgiveness Rock Record, the last Broken Social Scene record, came out in 2010. Tom Petty and Mumford and Sons are the headliners, and there are more food vendors than bands listed on the poster. On the final weekend of June, Broken Social Scene will perform at Arroyo Seco, a new festival in Pasadena, California, where kids under 10 get in for free. It just means you’re comfortable being honest with each other. Anyone who’s been friends for as long as Drew and Canning-and more broadly, the members of Broken Social Scene-knows how such extended intimacies invite the occasional meaningless conflict. Not that he and Canning are actually mad at each other. At some point along the way, Canning left the car to forge his own culinary path, and now it’s just the two of us. If you’re not, I have no idea what you’re doing there in the first place.”ĭrew was supposed to be having lunch here with Brendan Canning, his long-time friend in Broken Social Scene, but on the way over there was some typical band drama: The bandmates disagreed over where to eat. “I get reviews where they’re like ‘The guy ruined the show ‘cause he was dancing around.’ But that’s what I do-screaming and engaging with the people. When he holds up his left hand, I see the letters tattooed across his fingers spell the word "YES." Drew’s voice sounds weary as he weaves his way through magnetic, discursive monologues. “It hurts sometimes-I got a gut, my skin’s okay, I smoke still,” he says, tucking his scruffy shoulder-length hair behind his ears. Rock n’ roll has taken its course over the years, but he’s comfortable. In his blazer and white v-neck, Drew looks like a distant cousin of Father John Misty. A few minutes later, an order of buffalo wings arrives at the table. It’s the little things.”ĭrew, who turned 40 last September, is tearing into a kale salad at the Holloway, a bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “You have to sit in this regurgitated joke and find the light. “Revolution means shit to me,” says Drew of what it will take us to get through the currently tense global climate. And the state of the United States is just as exhausting as it was then, much to the annoyance of Broken Social Scene cofounder Kevin Drew. Fifteen years later, as indie kids who daydreamed to “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” have their own children, the band is about to return with a new album, Hug of Thunder. The satellite bands found success in their own right-most notably Feist, who became a superduperstar after "1234" scored an Apple ad-and Broken Social Scene became a supergroup created in reverse, a bigger deal than many bands in their milieu. Their ambitious, cross-genre sound was bound together by an irrepressibly romantic spirit, embodying the noise and angst of a generation coming of age under the worst American president of a then-teenager's lifetime. ![]() A wildly positive review of the band's You Forgot It in People on a budding Pitchfork more or less put them on the map in 2002, and file-sharing spread their music faster than a major label could. One of the biggest acts to benefit from the internet’s indie rock boom was Toronto's Broken Social Scene, a collective of at least twelve musicians all with their own bands - Stars, Metric, Do Say Make Think, Apostle of Hustle-who had come together like a Canadian Voltron. While New York's rock scene boomed as the city recovered from the World Trade Center attacks, indie bands from scenes relatively unplugged from the major label circuit could suddenly get their music out with a few clicks of a button. At the turn of the millennium, the internet was a new and novel discovery vehicle for music outside the usual routes. ![]()
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