Pitchfork — What: HopscotchWhen: September 9-11Where: Raleigh, NCWho: Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Public Enemy, Fucked Up, No Age, Atlas Sound, Washed Out, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Marissa Nadler, Javelin, Active Child, Harvey Milk, Tortoise, and more. (... more info

411 Mania — Jeff Mangum to play a gig, the libertines reform, new music from The Hold Steady, LCD Soundsystem, The National and Broken Social Scene, a new album from David Cross, and more. more info

Altsounds — With Danger Mouse, James Mercer, The Black Keys, and members of Broken Social Scene all in attendance, the final SXSW set by Milwaukee's Kings Go Forth was the place to be last Saturday night. NPR's Bob Boilen was there too, and called KGF "sens... more info

Chorus.fm — You can vote for either *Metric (http://www.absolutepunk.net/metric)* or *Broken Social Scene (http://www.absolutepunk.net/brokensocialscene)*'s ideas here (http://spin.com/pepsirefresh) to determine which of their causes will win a $100K grant. more info

Nialler9 — ‘Forced to Love’ and ‘All to All’ are available for stream here or for purchase here and iTunes. Forgiveness Rock Record is out on May 1st through Arts and Crafts. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Bryan Bruchman Broken Social Scene @ Stubb's (SXSW 2010) Broken Social Scene is now streaming three songs from their new album at MySpace. The band will next be in NYC in May to play Webster Hall and Music... more info

DrownedInSound — More goodies from the Canadian collective. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Broken Social Scene are in with the times. They realize that the record business is indeed broken and new methods of promotion are needed in order to get people to buy music. That’s why they have offered two tracks off of their upcoming album Forgi... more info

Nialler9 — A mammoth day in which I caught a lot of bands. Here are the highlights of the Friday from Austin. Local Natives One of last year’s breakout hits of SXSW, this year the LA harmony-heavy indie band returned to the place where everyone knew who they... more info

Stereogum — Last month you had a chance to listen to/mull over the swelling “World Sick,” the first official taste of Broken Social Scene’s John McEntire-helmed Forgiveness Rock Record. As you know, BSS includes a number of cooks, i.e. you’re not going t... more info