New Video: Still Life Still - Pastel

Brand new video from Still Life Still - look carefully and see if you can spot Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning ; )

Still Life Still - Pastel

The Goods on the Broken Social Scene Show: The Day the Main Stream Media Died

Jello Biafra, lead singer of the Dead Kennedys and founder of Alerternative Tentacles (amoung other things) once said "Don't hate the media, become the media". It is one of the founding principles of this site. The reality is that the internet has been 'becoming the media' for more than a decade, but today I think marks the turning point. Last nights Broken Social Scene show will likely turn out to be one of the most significant Canadian concerts of the decade yet there was no coverage at all from the main stream media. There was, in fact, very little coverage at all and what there was clearly demonstrates the shift.

According to Google, as of this hour there have been four blog posts about the show, including one from this blog. One of the blog posts was from a photo blog and there were, in addition to a horde of posts on twitter - three pages of videos on YouTube already - by next week you will probably be able to watch the entire show from several different angles.

As I said at the outset though, according to Google News there has been to date no mainstream press coverage at all no stories from the CBC, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, CTV, City or anywhere else for what will be remembered as one of the most significant concerts of the decade. Even CBC Radio 3 didn't list it in their top 5 gigs of the weekend - granted it was a busy weekend, but this show should have warranted making it a top 6 - just for the day.

Regardless of the main stream media ignoring the story though here are the goods:

Roundletters on the Harbourfront Broken Social Scene show.

Ryan O Photo has the pics from BSS @ Harbourfront

More Notes From Underground (usually a political blog) on the BSS show.

And Now, the Video!!



Broken Social Scene - Bandwitch (LIVE)



Broken Social Scene: KC Accidental. Harbourfront. Toronto. July 11.



Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) ft. Feist (Live) @ Harbourfront Centre 7/11/09



Broken Social Scene - Gimme Sympathy LIVE @ Harbourfront



Feist & Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) Duet - Medley (Live) @ Harbourfront Centre 7/11/09



and much much more

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere:

Library Voices have a couple of posts on their blog with photos chronicling all of the excitement that happens in a touring van (see photo at left.)

On CBC Radio 3 outgoing intern Amanda Ash did a great mini-radio doc on women in independent music.

CBC Radio 3 Podcast #206 is up with Joel Plaskett, K-Os, Holy Fuck, the Got To Get Got and More.

Kevin Drew's first ever blog entry is up on the Broken Social Scene Myspace.

HistoryJen has a couple of tickets to give away to the 9th annual Bob Dylan Tribute Night at C'est What on May 24.

Herohill is having a contest, giving away Dog Day tix.

the Phog Blog has some live footage from the Brasstronaut show.

the Toronto Music Blog Collective has a review up of the CFL Sessions.

Kevin Drew dives into film-making with The Water

The Water, a 15 minute film by Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew will premiere this Friday, April 10th on Pitchfork TV. The film short features Irish actor Cillian Murphy, Canadian actor David Fox, and Canadian musician Leslie Feist as well as Feist's song 'The Water'. The Water is a visual poem which questions love, life, and death representing the song of the same name.