Broken Social Scene

RVCA presents Broken Social Scene at Malkin Bowl in Vancouver. Tickets at Ticketmaster.

Win tickets to Broken Social Scene

RVCA Advocates Broken Social Scene are playing 2 big homecoming shows next month in Toronto at the Sound Academy. Click HERE to win a pair of tickets to their December 10th show. Contest closes Nov. 28th so act fast!

Broken Social Scene on RVCA.com

Broken Social Scene took a quick minute with our friends at RVCA in Cali for an interview at their show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.

Click HERE to check it out.

Broken Social Scene x Yo Gabba Gabba

Our very good friends, and RVCA advocates, in Broken Social Scene recently collab'd with kiddie faves, Yo Gabba Gabba, live, on-stage, to throw down their rendition of the 'Peanut Butter Stomp'.

Click HERE to check the vid...

GOOD LUCK BSS @ THE POLARIS AWARDS

We would like to send our most heartfelt best wishes and good luck out to our friends and RVCA Advocates, Broken Social Scene at tonite's 2010 Polaris Music Prize awards ceremony. The band is nominated for their juggernaut of an LP, Forgiveness Rock Record. And even though BSS are up against a murderer's row of Canadian independent music talent we know they are gonna walk away the winners, making it the 2nd year in a row that someone in the Timebomb family (Fucked Up in 2009), takes home the illustrious award. Good luck boys and girl.

Click HERE to find out more about the Polaris.

BSS write score for 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'.

RVCA Advocates Broken Social Scene wrote the score as well as a new song (with vocals) for the upcoming mental hospital dramedy It's Kind of a Funny Story from directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, and starring Zach Galifianakis. (BSS worked with Fleck and Boden previously on Half Nelson.)

The new track is called "Not at My Best" and it leads the flick's official soundtrack. A piece of the BSS score will also be available as an iTunes bonus track. The soundtrack is out September 28 on Rhino. The film hits theaters October 8.

Click HERE to check out a trailer for the movie.

Pre-BSS Group K.C. Accidental EPs to Be Reissued

In the late 90s, before they got together with what seemed like every indie rocker in Toronto, RVCA Advocates and Broken Social Scene mainstays Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin made two lo-fi post-rock EPs as K.C. Accidental. Both hard-to-find records-- Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub and Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills-- get reissued on October 26 via Arts & Crafts. The set will be available on double CD, double vinyl, and digitally, and copies will also be for sale at Broken Social Scene's tour stops. Guests on the two EPs included Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, Stars' Evan Cranley, and many more.

Click HERE for more info.

Broken Social Scene - All to All Remix Series

RVCA advocates Broken Social Scene recently launched the "All To All" remix series, where different DJs and producers share their interpretation of the Lisa Lobsinger fronted track. So far Skeet Skeet, Sebastian Grainger and djmomjeans (AKA Danny Masterson) have taken part, with a fourth and final remix in the series coming this Monday. Click HERE to listen and download.

Broken Social Scene on Bravo

This evening at 10et/7pt on Bravo RVCA Advocates, Broken Social Scene, will be performing a full one hour concert and interview they recorded this past Spring at the legendary Masonic Temple in downtown Toronto. Hendrix and Zeppelin played there! The band highlights their new jams off of Forgiveness Rock Record in addition to a few of the old crowd pleasers. The show is hosted by legendary Much Music personailty and teenage crush, Erica Ehm. Check it out tonite or catch the encore presentation this Friday at 7et/4pt.

Click HERE for more info.

BSS - 'Forced to Love' Video

RVCA Advocates and Toronto sweethearts, Broken Social Scene recently dropped their latest, and first official video off Forgiveness Rock Record, for 'Forced to Love'.

“It’s an experimental 3D scanning technology that detects the displacement of a grid pattern of any object in front of it,” [director Alan Poon] explains. “The data is then used to rebuild the object in three dimensions. Each band member’s performance was scanned using this technique and manipulated in the computer to create the effect you see in the final video.”

Click HERE to check it out in HD.

Broken Social Scene - Pitchfork P.O.V. Series

RVCA Advocates Broken Social Scene were recently in Chicago playing the Pitchfork fest. During some time off they filmed a special new segment for Pitchfork's new P.O.V. series doing three songs-- including one unreleased jam-- at Lincoln Hall. The segment lets you play director and switch in live time between 6 different camera angles and since there are more members in BSS than your average band, the extra perspectives really come in handy. You can also watch all six streams at once, and switch angles by clicking one of the numbered thumbnails on the screen. It's a blast. And big ups to the guys in the band for being so nicely decked out in all of RVCA's latest and greatest Summer 2010 duds!

Click HERE to give it a whirl!

Political New Broken Social Scene Video

"The fan-made, band-approved, found-footage video for Forgiveness Rock Record's epic "Meet Me in the Basement" looks like a visual analog for his worldview. Made as a response to the recent riot-filled G20 Summit in the band's hometown of Toronto, the clip slices together storm-trooper footage from that event along with a flashes of what could be interpreted as "distractions": Justin Bieber, violent video games, Lady Gaga, Obama girl. It's pretty intense. According to the band, "This video was sent to us by a lover of our music who wants to remain anonymous. We are very proud to share this mash-up with you." c/o Pitchfork

Watch it above or click HERE for a bigger version.

Broken Social Scene - 2010 Polaris Music Prize

Congratulations to RVCA Advocates, Broken Social Scene, who were recently announced on the short list of 2010 Polaris Music Prize nominees for their latest Forgiveness Rock Record. The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize.The winner will be announced on September 20th. Best of luck to our buddies in BSS!!!

THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN in theaters today!

This Movie Is Broken, written and directed by Canadian film icons Bruce McDonald and Don Mckellar is in theaters today in Toronto and Vancouver. The movie centers around a young couple trying to make their way to an epic Broken Social Scene (RVCA) concert in Toronto.

Click HERE for showtimes, info, trailer, etc...

Broken Social Scene Island Fest Recap

This past weekend Broken Social Scene curated their own summer festival featuring themselves, Pavement, Band of Horses, and Beach House. Completely sold out with 10,000 people the event had a great atmosphere. Instead of having some fast food hot dog or pizza vendors the band picked all their favorite local Toronto eataries/breweries and had them set up booths on the island. Also available at the show were the extremely limited RVCA x BSS vintage dye t-shirt that sold out before the band even got off the stage.

Aside from the usual 12+ piece live Broken Social Scene band they were also joined on stage by friends Feist, Emily and Jimmy from Metric, Sebastien from Death from Above 1979, the guys from Pavement, and John McEntire from Tortoise/Sea & Cake. Click HERE to check out a video of Sentimental X's feat. Feist and Emily Haines

Broken Social Scene on Jimmy Fallon

Last week RVCA friends Broken Social Scene hit Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon where they played Texico Bitches and closed the show out with 'Meet Me in the Basement' with special guests Fred Willard and Cedric the Entertainer on stage for a little air guitar. Pretty epic!

Click HERE to check out the vid...

RVCA x Broken Social Scene Limited T-Shirt

In a very eclectic and collaborative effort RVCA and Broken Social Scene recently came together to create a very limited edition t-shirt (only 150!!!) to be sold exclusively at their Olympic Island concert this Saturday in Toronto w/ Pavement, Band of Horses, and Beach House. It's one of those 'You just gotta be there!' concert t's. The artwork was done by longtime RVCA collaborator and Canadian skate scene staple, Andrew Pommier.

Win 2 Tickets to Broken Social Scene in T.O.

Click HERE to enter to win a pair of tickets to next weekend's huge Olympic Island Show in Toronto w/ Broken Social Scene (RVCA), Pavement, Band of Horses, and Beach House. Contest ends Sunday June 13th @ 11pm.

THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN

Directed by Bruce McDonald ("Hard Core Logo"), 'This is Broken' is a sort of docu-drama compiling actual crowd-sourced audience-shot concert footage of Broken Social Scene at last summer's epic Harborfront reunion show in Toronto with a fictional narrative — written by well-known Canuck scribe/filmmaker Don McKellar — revolving around two lovers (played by little known young actors Greg Calderone and Georgina Reilly from McDonald's last picture, the aural-zombie movie, "Pontypool") trying to make their way into a Broken Social Scene concert. The film is set for release for June 25th.

Click HERE to check out the trailer.

Damian Abraham (Fucked Up) - City by City

We like to keep it all in the family here! In a very interesting piece Damian Abraham of Fucked Up (Altamont) writes a very interesting pieces on his favorite spots in Toronto for Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene's (RVCA) blog PFFFFFT.com. That's 5 F's!

Click HERE to let Damian take you on a tour of the best food joints and record stores that the fine city of Toronto has to offer.