Looks to me like Broken Social Scene, some cool cats/close friends who I have recently lost contact with are sittin’ pretty on a Friday near headliner spot. They are in between Robyn and Modest Mouse, and although I admittedly don’t really know bout that red bird band, and I’m sure m&m would put on a good show, I will try hard to get a good seat for indie scene veterans Broken Social Scene.
BSS is essentially everyone who used to be big on the Indie scene thrown into one varying sized melting pot. We have members of Do Make Say Think, Feist, Metric, Stars, Weatherkins, Kevin Drew, and a bunch more making a nice racket on stage. I say they are my close friends, because like many a band, I had a fairly substantial stay where it was BSS and almost nothing else. They’re lyrics, song structure, instrumentation, bla bla bla I could go on… all impressed me. If you somehow catch me unawares and search my computer for songs in 7, you will find a plethora of horrible garageband midi compositions inspired by 7/4 shoreline (not to mention some songs with = signs in the titles a la masterpiece cause = time).
Anyways, I also heard that they kill up on stage and that they change lives, so I think it is worth checking out.
Now, if I did not see Superchunk last night (yea I did), I would say the kids in BSS are sure fathers of indie music as we know it. Nonetheless, I think they could easily be the cool uncles.
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