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 …
Tag Archive: Broken Social Scene
Nov
11
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.
Oct
10
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 …
Oct
01
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 …
Nov
12
You want music to save your life part two-Band of Horses Live Nov 10 2007
I was reading an interview on “Pitchfork”:http://pitchforkmedia.com (sorry Alex I can’t help myself, some folks read People Magazine, I read Pitchfork)- where in an interview with “PJ Harvey”:http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/46455-interview-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 …
Nov
07
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 …
