NME — The Honey Brothers charm the crowd with folksy pop-rock more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Lullabye Arkestra - "We Fuck The Night" (MP3) Charles Spearin of Do Make Say Think blowin' the horn for Broken Social Scene @ Mercury (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Do Make Say Think has scheduled a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Weakerthans' upcoming tour dates have been updated with openers and additional shows. Those plans include a West Coast run in July and an East Coast second leg in September. Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene opens for the... more info

Quick Before It Melts — I thought I would bring it to the attention of my Toronto-based readers (if there is such a thing) that Bruce McDonald, the director of Hard Core Logo, and Shadow Shows is working with Arts & Crafts on a new feature film starring Broken Social Scene ... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Canada The Most Serene Republic might look like your average hipster-friendly indie rockers, but the members of the young, Broken Social Scene-affiliated septet are really gamer geeks at heart. "Sean [Woolven] and I are, definitely,"... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this morning it was Kate from Toronto on the Broken Social Scene beat. Here, a reader named Renee witnessed new Spoon during the band's three-night stand at Stubb's (7/9-11) and thought to forward the details (thanks, readers). The new son... more info

Stereogum — We got the word on this one from a reader named Kate, who informs us of the following: Broken Social Scene were going to have a show on the island in Toronto but because of the city strike they had to cancel it. As an apology of sorts last night ... more info

Quick Before It Melts — Last week I finally got my hands on a copy of This Book Is Broken, Stuart Berman’s detailed (and authorized) account of the Broken Social Scene story. It is as much a visual representation as it it a textual one, combining candid photos and scrapb... more info

Guardian Music — They made their name with spiky, angry songs perfect for sweaty clubs. Now Metric are finding their lighter side. Will the band's fans go for it?"Let me ask you something," says Jimmy Shaw, leaning across the table. "If the record were called Distanc... more info

JamBase — Images by: Dave Vann Rothbury Music Festival :: 07.03.09 :: Rothbury, MI King Sunny Ade Femi Kuti Nas & Damian Marley Bill Nershi - The String Cheese Incident Keller Williams with The String Cheese Incide... more info