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Broken Social Scene Plan New Songs, Spin Off 'Industrial-Goth-Hobo' Side-Project

Arts & Crafts It's been over a year since the release of Broken Social Scene's latest album, 'Forgiveness Rock Record,' and they've spent the time between concerts pursuing other projects. Individual members have kept busy, but it's been relatively quiet on the Broken Social Scene front. According to BSS mainstay Andrew Whiteman, that ...

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Buck 65 Talks Sidelined Baseball Career, Says He Could Have Been a Derek Jeter

Emily Terfry Buck 65 has been playing music for over 20 years. That's a heavy milestone not only for a hip-hop musician, but especially a white Canadian rapper who doesn't fit tightly into the scene or genre. Music, however, was actually the rapper's second-choice career. Originally, the Halifax-born rapper and CBC Radio 2 DJ (born Rich ...

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Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman Slams 'Sweetest Kill' Video: 'Weak S---!'

Danielle St. Laurent Ever wonder why the members of Broken Social Scene often don't appear in their own music videos? Call it an aesthetic choice, but there may be a deeper reason lurking beneath the surface. "I don't believe in videos," Broken Social Scene member Andrew Whiteman tells Spinner. "I think they're bulls---." That would ...

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Hey Rosetta! Watch Their Profile Rise Thanks to Polaris Prize

Chromewaves Few bands have benefited more from the Polaris Prize than Hey Rosetta!. Though they have yet to win the prestigious critic-selected Canadian music award (fingers crossed), the Newfoundland indie rockers are now one of the few acts to have been shortlisted twice. They now have to wait until September to find out if their latest ...

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The Tragically Hip Ring in Canada Day With Weezer and Broken Social Scene

Richard Trapunkski, AOL Whether they like it or not, the Tragically Hip are Canada's band. More precisely, for many national rock and roll fans, the Hip are Canada. In a country with few strong symbols on which to hang its identity, citizens tend to proselytize pop cultural signifiers into emblems of national consciousness: hockey, the coffee ...

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Buck 65, Rich Aucoin, Burning Love Play Unofficial BBQ, House Party at NXNE

Warner Music For the last few years, Toronto music scenester Tim McCready has thrown one of the highest-profile, non-official NXNE BBQs at his house on 159 Manning. This year was both his biggest and his most controversial as he increased the amount of space, raised the number of stages to three, integrated art displays and poetry readings, ...

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Stars Fight Hangovers to Play Secret, 'Scavenger Hunt' Show at NXNE

Norman Wong Stars may have played one of the biggest shows of their career at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square for NXNE on Friday (June 17), but they proved just a day later that they still have a soft-spot for their most dedicated fans, as they took the stage at the much cozier confines of the city's Edward Day Gallery on Queen Street West ...

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