BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE RELEASE SURPRISE LIVE ALBUM, KICK OFF 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

SURPRISE ALBUM, LIVE AT THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE 2003, OUT TODAY

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YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR KICKS OFF TONIGHT IN VANCOUVER

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Today, Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene release a surprise bootleg of a 2003 concert. Available digitally or via limited edition cassette, Live At the Phoenix Concert Theatre, 2003 was directed by Stephen Chung and is available HERE

"To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of You Forgot It In People I dug into my archives and put together this live version of ‘Jimmy and the Photocall’ one of my favorite Broken Social Scene songs that has never been released," says Chung. "We captured the entire show in standard definition on glorious Mini DV with whatever cameras and recording equipment we could beg or borrow. We are happy to share this with you 20 years later."

WATCH / SHARE “JIMMY AND THE PHOTOCALL (LIVE, 2003)” HERE

From December 3rd to 5th in 2003, indie rock collective Broken Social Scene performed the three sold out hometown shows at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The band had just returned from a tour that took them across the US, UK, and Europe in support of their sophomore album, You Forgot It In People

The record had been released the previous year and was already on its journey to becoming one of the most celebrated indie albums of the decade. Pitchfork had called the album "endlessly replayable, perfect pop" giving it a Best New Music designation and the BBC called it "absolutely, utterly essential," setting into motion the band's swift ascent to global recognition.

On this live bootleg, you'll hear a group of friends joyously performing for their community, the people of Toronto who supported them when Broken Social Scene was just a two-person instrumental curiosity, before all the awards, the late night television performances, and invites to Glastonbury and Lollapalooza.

This collection features songs from You Forgot It In People, select tracks from their follow up self-titled record (including a 15 minute rendition of "It's All Gonna Break"), and the rarity "Jimmy and the Photocall," a long-time fan favorite that never made it on to an album!

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LIVE AT THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE (Cover Art)

TRACKLIST
01 Intro / Late Nineties Bedroom Rock For Missionaries / Shampoo Suicide
02 KC Accidental
03 Stars and Sons
04 Cause = Time
05 Pacific Theme
06 Jimmy And The Photocall
07 7/4 Shoreline
08 Looks Just Like The Sun
09 Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
10 Almost Crimes
11 Major Label Debut
12 Lover’s Spit
13 It’s All Gonna Break

The band kicks off their You Forgot It In People 20th Anniversary Tour tonight at Vancouver’s The Commodore Ballroom. See below for full dates.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Thu-Sep-22 Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom #
Fri-Sep-23 Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom # (SOLD OUT)
Sat-Sep-24 Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre **
Mon-Sep-26 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom * (SOLD OUT)
Tue-Sep-27 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
Thu-Sep-29 Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery * (SOLD OUT)
Fri-Sep-30 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre *
Sun-Oct-2 Dana Point, CA @ Ohana Festival
Tue-Oct-4 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *(SOLD OUT)
Wed-Oct-5 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall *
Fri-Oct-7 Iowa City, IA @ Englert Theatre *
Sat-Oct-8 St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre ***
Sun-Oct-9 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *(SOLD OUT)
Mon-Oct-10 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *(SOLD OUT)
Wed-Oct-12 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Thu-Oct-13 Washington, D.C. @ Lincoln Theatre *
Fri-Oct-14 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club *(SOLD OUT)
Sat-Oct-15 New York, NY @ Webster Hall * (SOLD OUT)
Sun-Oct-16 New York, NY @ Webster Hall * (SOLD OUT)

* w/ JASMYN
** w/ Quasi
*** w/ Poliça
# w/ Rural Alberta Advantage

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BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TO PERFORM AT MASSEY HALL THIS APRIL WITH OMBIIGIZI AND GEORGIA HARMER

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS AS A BAND, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE WILL MAKE THEIR MASSEY HALL HEADLINING DEBUT ON APRIL 20 AND 21, 2022

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
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. 

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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

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BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE RELEASE 2010 B-SIDE “CURSE YOUR FAIL” PREVIOUSLY ONLY AVAILABLE ON 7-INCH

TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING COMPILATION OLD DEAD YOUNG: B-SIDES & RARITIES

AVAILABLE JANUARY 14, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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Today, Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene have released “Curse Your Fail”, a track taken from the forthcoming 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. “Curse Your Fail”, previously only available on a 2010 split 7-inch with The Sea and Cake, features alternating vocals from four lead singers including guest Sebastien Grainger (of DFA 1979)

“Curse Your Fail” follows “This House Is On Fire”, a previously unreleased dream pop single taken from the 2009 Forgiveness Rock Record recording sessions. Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is available for digital download and streaming on-demand on January 14, 2022. Fans can pre-order the album on vinyl set for release in the spring.

LISTEN / SHARE “CURSE YOUR FAIL” HERE

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). 

LISTEN TO “THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE”

 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.

PRE-ORDER OLD DEAD YOUNG: B-SIDES & RARITIES

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 OLD DEAD YOUNG: B-SIDES & RARITIES (TRACKLIST)
01 "Far Out" (2009, From the 'Forgiveness Rock Record' pre-order EP 'Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights')
02 “Do the 95” (2001, B-Side to “Stars and Sons” 7-inch)
03 “Curse Your Fail” (2009, From tour 7-inch split with the Sea and Cake)
04 "Not At My Best" (2010, From the end credits for film 'It's Kind Of A Funny Story')
05 "National Anthem of Nowhere" (2004, Early Broken Social Scene version of an Apostle Of Hustle song)
06 "Golden Facelift” (2009, ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’ outtake. Released on Globe & Mail’s Broadsheet Music
project)
07 “This House Is On Fire” (2009, 'Forgiveness Rock Record' outtake)
08 “Canada vs America” (2004, From the ‘Self-Titled’ bonus CD "EP to be You and Me")
09 "Day Of The Kid" (2005, Released on Arts & Crafts 10th anniversary compilation)
10 "Stars and Spit" (2006, B-Side to "7/4 Shoreline" 7-inch)
11 “Until It's Dead” (2006, From Lake Ontario Waterkeeper compilation 'At The Barricades: Vol 1')
12 "All My Friends" (2004, From the ‘Self-Titled’ bonus CD "EP to be You and Me")
13 “Death Cock” (2001, Very first recording with producer Dave Newfeld. Released on Arts & Crafts 10th anniversary compilation)
14 “Old Dead Young” (2016, ‘Hug Of Thunder’ vinyl-only track)

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