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social scene is coming out with a new album and will be touring around this summer and I'm pretty damn excited. Including two stops in Asia: Taipei, Taiwan & Singapore, Singapore.

Jul 25 2010 8:00P	The Wall	Taipei
Jul 27 2010 8:00P	Esplanade Concert Hall	Singapore

You can see the rest of their tour dates and new tracks on myspace.

 I missed the chance to see them during my freshman year of college, when I didn't know the band really, and the strokes were playing the same night as they were (so was Metric). I happen to know this only by the pure chance that after getting to the BART station to catch the final train back to Berkeley, our friends stumbled upon friends coming from each show, a rather chance-like rather-fond memory of mine, although I speak to none of those people anymore. Regardless, I've come to love this rather rambunctious haphazard band overtime, as Leslie Feist and Emily Haines were also once a part of them as well. This sentence sums them up well in anticipation of their 5th album Forgiveness Rock Record and a companion EP Lo-Fi for The Dividing Nights.

"I know that some bands write their songs, rehearse them and then record them. Not Broken Social Scene. In recording Forgiveness Rock Record we did it our usual way: swimming in chaos and making it up as we go along"


BSS is:
Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, David Newfeld, Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, James Shaw, Evan Cranley, Amy Millan, Torquil Campbell, Ohad Benchetrit, Marty Kinack, Julie Penner, Lisa Lobsinger, John Crossingham