Today the independent label is home to four bands that share their talent with Broken Social Scene. JOHNSON: To put that second album out, Kevin Drew and his friends launched Arts & Crafts Records. Heart is pounding in his chest (unintelligible). They wanted to distill the essence of epic rock into short, soulful pop tunes.īROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: (Singing) Well, he looks just like a son, looks just like you, but. Their sophomore album, 2003's "You Forgot It in People," fully captured the band's original musical vision. JOHNSON: When they could get away from their individual band commitments, Broken Social Scene's members went straight to the recording studio. So this started what became Broken Social Scene. And we had a bar called Ted's Wrecking Yard and we would do a lot of these shows where we'd say we'll never play the same song twice and-but it was fun. KEVIN DREW (Broken Social Scene): We put together this family and we started doing all these shows with whoever was in town would come and we would play. When those friends began building their own group, Drew borrowed talent from some of his city's best musical acts. He's been close to some of his band mates since childhood.
Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew is part of that community.
A lot of those musicians also play in an incestuous ring of bands that have shaped Toronto's thriving music scene. JOHNSON: The Broken Social Scene collective is made of more than a dozen artists who are always coming and going. FEIST: But then the rest of us come in, those doors that swing in and swing out, and then one of those old saloons need action, you know?īROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: (Singing). They're the ones with the sleeves rolled up and the garters around their-and they're dealing the blackjack hands and stuff. LESLIE FEIST (Broken Social Scene): There's the brothel upstairs, there's the booze behind the counter, and it's being run by-the proprietors are the guys in Broken that are holding down the fort. Band mate Leslie Feist describes Broken Social Scene like a saloon in an old Western.
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With a horn section, a violinist, two full drum kits and a designated conductor, Broken Social Scene doesn't quite fit the traditional rock band mold. Their latest CD is called simply "Broken Social Scene." NPR's Christopher Johnson reports.
Since then, they've grown into an influential indie rock collective that's made three albums and done at least as many international tours. At the band's core are a few old friends who started Broken Social Scene four years ago. Their songs swell with sometimes more than 13 members playing orchestral rock 'n' roll. Toronto band Broken Social Scene is proof that any group is only as powerful as the sum of its parts.
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