![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike other contemplative indie projects of the era - Bright Eyes, the Mountain Goats, Elliott Smith - Broken Social Scene and You Forgot It In People plucked heartstrings in a similar fashion as their all-instrumental debut, 2001’s Feel Good Lost. The irony is, the lyrics on You Forgot It In People don’t actually make a lot of sense - at least, not enough to form universal emotional attachments to. My MySpace name was “Broken Social Thing,” for god’s sake. During one of those shows, my then-crush confessed his reciprocated feelings as BSS played “Lover’s Spit.” For me, You Forgot It In People is one of those albums that is so steeped in coming-of-age nostalgia, my pragmatism around anniversaries frankly doesn’t stand a chance. I probably played every track at least a few times on my college radio show I journeyed to both Philadelphia and New York on multiple occasions to catch Broken Social Scene live ( with Feist in the lineup!!). It’s hard to think of a record that meant more to me as a young adult than this one did. ![]() That said: Writing a 20-year anniversary essay around this particular album is a gut punch. The passage of time is inevitable, and it’s always been a pet peeve of mine when people boo-hoo about how their best years are behind them, it’s been X amount of years since college ended, no good music exists anymore, blah blah - you get it. Usually when landmark records turn A Certain Age, I try not to take it personally or begin digging my own grave. So many Canadian indie-rock figures were born out of the greater Broken Social Scene hive mind that the whole enterprise should be studied - or at least theme an episode of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult. Nowhere is this carousel of talent better exemplified than on the band’s astounding sophomore album, You Forgot It In People, which turns 20 this Saturday. (Fun fact: Canning was once a member of Len, of “ Steal My Sunshine” fame.) Some of those early names included the Leslie Feist, Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell of Stars, Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric, the trio of Charles Spearin, Julie Penner, and Ohad Benchetrit from Do Make Say Think, plus Apostle Of Hustle, KC Accidental, Jason Collett, and others that I’m no doubt leaving out. (No offense to the ska community.)īeginning in 1999 as a musical partnership between Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, Broken Social Scene would eventually see close to 30 members cycle through their ranks, with players rotating in and out depending on availability. More than two decades after forming, Broken Social Scene have come to symbolize a maximalist musical time where indie-ensemble bands ruled - the more instruments, the better! Almost like a ’90s ska band, except no one was getting paid just to skank onstage. June 13 - Asheville, NC ExploreAsheville.Broken Social Scene have always been less a band than a collective - a onetime incubator of Canadian indie mega-stars that put Toronto on the map around the same time fellow supergroup the New Pornographers were doing the same thing for Vancouver, and Arcade Fire (*cringe emoji*) for Montreal. June 9 - Dallas, TX - Texas Trust CU Theater Grounds ! June 8 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall * June 6 - Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Financial Theatre * June 4 - Stanford, CA - Frost Amphitheater at Stanford ! June 3 - Los Angeles, CA - Brookside at the Rosebowl ! June 2 - San Diego, CA - Thrive Park at Snapdragon Stadium ! boygenius will perform at this year's Coachella Music Festival on Saturday, April 15th and Saturday, April 22nd in addition to headlining the inaugural Re:Set Concert Series with stops in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans and more.Īpril 15 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music & Arts FestivalĪpril 22 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music & Arts Festival Public onsale is Friday, March 31 at 12pm local time.īoygenius announced their long awaited debut album, the record, in January and made global headlines with their Nirvana-nodding cover of February's Rolling Stone magazine. The beloved band will make stops in Phoenix, Toronto, Vancouver, Boise and more before rounding out this leg with a performance at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. Their first live performance has also been announced for April 12 at The Fox Theater ahead of their appearance at Coachella Music and Arts Festival. In between their dates headlining Re:Set Concert Series in June, the band will set off on a run of their own with support from Carly Rae Jepsen, Broken Social Scene, Bartees Strange, Claud and Illuminati Hotties. (The Oriel Co) boygenius have unveiled plans for a summer North American headline tour. ![]()
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