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Two more Broken Social Scene Videos-One is a Cadbury Commercial!

Just when you thought I would stop with the Broken Social Scene…



This Cadbury Commercial using Broken Social Scene’s venerable Stars and Sons is pretty dead on. This is one of my favorite tunes actually. I love the bass line, it’s pretty stellar. The commercial is pretty whack with everyone showing up in a park from [...]

Video Mashup, Flock of Birds Broken Social Scene-Lover’s Spit

For this gloomy, cold, fall day this video I found on You Tube pretty much says it all. Having watched Seagulls do this at the beach, I wish I had filmed them too.


Fleet Foxes-Live at the Ladies Literary Club 10-09-2008

Fleet Foxes Live at the Ladies Literary Club


Laura and I visited the Ladies Literary club of Calvin College to see what Pitchfork has called the baroque folk rock band Fleet Foxes. The five piece played a succinct but moving one hour set in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan.


The venue is a beautiful Victorian building with [...]

Broken Social Scene from Juan’s Basement

Broken Social Scene Jams Churches under the Stairs

Brian Eno in the Lanois film, Here is What is, talked about where music came from. He said that most people assume that great music, or art comes out of thin air when as Bono always puts it, when God walks through the room.


Eno said most people [...]

You want music to save your life part two-Band of Horses Live Nov 10 2007


I was reading an interview on Pitchfork (sorry Alex I can’t help myself, some folks read People Magazine, I read Pitchfork)- where in an interview with PJ Harvey the interviewer said that music didn’t mean as much to him now as it did when he was 17. I actually paused on that one. I felt [...]

Broken Social Scene Live Ann Arbor Nov 7 2007

If there is one band whose music has carried me through miles and miles of running, car trips, highs and lows since 2004 it’s been Broken Social Scene. Bad fortune has caught me before when it comes to live shows. Cough Andrew Bird. But I missed the huge heyday of BSS when they had 14 [...]