CELEBRATING 20 YEARS AS A BAND, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE WILL MAKE THEIR MASSEY HALL HEADLINING DEBUT ON APRIL 20 AND 21, 2022
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APRIL 20 (WITH OMBIIGIZI) // APRIL 21 WITH (GEORGIA HARMER)
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Next month, Broken Social Scene will make their headlining debut at the legendary Massey Hall after 20 years of making music together. For each show, Broken Social Scene will be supported by Arts & Crafts labelmates OMBIIGIZI (April 20) and Georgia Harmer (April 21). Tickets for both shows are available to purchase today.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
APRIL 20 (WITH OMBIIGIZI) // APRIL 21 WITH (GEORGIA HARMER)
Recently, Broken Social Scene revisited two decades worth of releases to compile Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities, a career-spanning collection of B-sides, rarities, and outtakes pulled from 20 years of 7-inches, compilations, soundtracks, and hard-to-find releases.
BUY / STREAM OLD DEAD YOUNG : B-SIDES & RARITIES
Once a two-person basement recording project, Broken Social Scene came to life onstage as a shadowy improvisational entity with a revolving-door roster, each concert a wholly unique experience dependent on the room, the weather, what they ate for dinner that night, and who was dropping in to play. Where the band’s 2001 debut album, Feel Good Lost, presented BSS as an anonymous ambient project that reflected its humble, homespun origins, their electrifying live performances from that era rallied an extended family of performers with roots in post-rock (Justin Peroff; Do Make Say Think’s Charles Spearin), Latin jazz (Andrew Whiteman), art-folk (Feist), synth-pop (Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, also of Stars), dance-punk (Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw), and country rock (Jason Collett).
But by pursuing improvisational freedom over commercial considerations, Broken Social Scene set a new gold standard for indie rock in the 21st century with 2002’s You Forgot It In People, an album that pushed the genre far beyond its noisy ’90s slacker roots toward a more sonically expansive, emotionally expressive vision. And with follow up releases like the blissfully chaotic Broken Social Scene (2005), the rapturous Forgiveness Rock Record (2010), and the intricate, insidiously melodic Hug of Thunder (2017), Broken Social Scene have amassed a thrillingly amorphous, unpredictable body of work. Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is everything that happened in between.
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MORE ABOUT OMBIIGIZI
The debut release from OMBIIGIZI – a collaboration between Zoon (Daniel Monkman) and Status/Non Status (Adam Sturgeon) – Sewn Back Together is a rumination on family, a celebration and holistic cleansing, with a strong sense of brotherhood and loving support. An amalgam of their indigenous heritages and their personal musical architectures, Daniel and Adam imbue the lyrics with their families' storytelling, revealing truths and finding common ground amidst their differences.
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MORE ABOUT GEORGIA HARMER
With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer has penned an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life. Debut LP, Stay In Touch, out April 22 via Arts & Crafts.
