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by Luke Slater
A veritable selection of the world's most fantastic artists from across the whole wide world have been added to the bill for next year's Pavement curated ATP, the event so many of you were getting so damned excited about when it was announced a couple of months ago.»
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by Luke Slater
Watch the final instalment in our series of Road Trippin' With The Ice Cream Man, featuring Broken Social Scene, Delta Spirit, Matt & Kim and more...»
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by Luke Slater
A day which has been already contained good album news now gets even better. Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene are in the studio recording material for their new album, as announced by Kevin Drew.»
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by Sean Adams
6. Which of these bands has the MOST members:
The Polyphonic Spree
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Broken Social Scene»
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by Mike Diver
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (pictured) head up a stellar confirmed cast for the eighth annual Siren Music Festival, held on Coney Island, New York»
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by Kev Kharas
The second release in the Broken Social Scene Presents… series will arrive next month, courtesy of Brendan Canning»
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by Kev Kharas
An award-winning film soundtracked by Broken Social Scene is released in Canadian cinemas this Friday (2 Nov).»
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by Kev Kharas
Noah and the Whale have a fair few shows booked; headlining their own tour as autumn slides irretrievably into winter.»
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by Gareth Dobson
The Universal Music Group, which is the biggest market-share holder in UK music, has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the V2 Music Group from it’s current owners Morgan Stanley.»
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by Mike Diver
Sort of: the first in a series of Broken Social Scene presents... LPs will be Kevin Drew's Spirit If.... It comes out on September 17 via City Slang...»
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by Sean Adams
To give you a taste of the debut solo album by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Drowned in Sound Recordings (that's our bit on the side) today release a free download single
'Dr.Blind' from our MySpace.
myspace.com/disrecords»
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by Sean Adams
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton have announced five shows in May and June, including a performance at the Homefires Festival, at the Conway Hall in Holborn, on Sunday June 3...»
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by Gareth Dobson
Every week, the kind folk of DrownedinSound.com (hi, that’s us) offer up a comprehensive overview of the latest pop charts. Hopefully you find it useful. Sometimes, though, I detect that, behind the bile, hate, sarcasm and ennui displayed by a certain M Diver, there’s not a lot of love for the top 40. So why are we still obsessed with the charts...»
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by Mike Diver
The results are in, and all arguments in the DiS office have died down – we can’t alter our final top ten albums of 2006, anyway, as they were very kindly voted for by you lot. Reckon you can guess the winner? Is that photograph a clue...»
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by Mike Diver
Good day to you, dearest of dear readers, and welcome to what we’re calling an ‘interactive activity’. Because we’re busy – bloody busy – at the DiSopolis, we’re asking you to decide our album/s of the year...»
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by Mike Diver
Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, has won the first-ever Polaris Prize in Canada...»
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by Mike Diver
Stars' last long-player, the sublime Set Yourself On Fire, is to receive the remix treatment a la the likes of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines. And, like, A MILLION others...»
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by Kev Kharas
Semi-popular Canadian beat combo Broken Social Scene have announced their intention to rest after fulfilling their upcoming tour commitments. Remarkably, they did not use the words 'Indefinite Hiatus'.»
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by Mike Diver
The nominees have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize, the new Canadian music award we previously reported on here...»
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by Colin Roberts
The annual lager-fest known as 'The C**ling Weekend: Reading/Leeds' has been bolstered and (somewhat) improved with the announcemnt of a few spades worth of artists...
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by Mike Diver
Broken Social Scene founder Kevin Drew has told reporters at Canada's Juno Awards that the current crop of television talent-contest wannabe pop stars are "going absolutely nowhere"...»
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by Gen Williams
This year's Lollapalooza line-up has been announced. The festival, which will take place in Chicago's Grant Park on August 4th-6th.»
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by Sean Adams
Metric sign to the DiS label and tour UK in May.»
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by Mike Diver
Epic Canadian indie types Broken Social Scene have been forced (yeah, they were so reluctant) to upgrade the venues at their Belfast and Leeds stopovers on their current UK tour...»
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by Colin Roberts
As another quartet of bands are added to the second weekend, it's just getting better and better...»
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by Mike Diver
Sing along at home, kids: Canadian label Paper Bag has announced plans to release a compilation of songs aimed at children, played by some of today's finest indie-rockers...»
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by Sean Adams
Potential band of 2006, announce full UK tour... »
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by DiS News
Canada's current crop of insanely wonderful supergroups is keeping many peoples' faith in indie-pop alive. At the top of the batch is Broken Social Scene.»