(31) Days of Good: Day 22

Canadian musical collective, Broken Social Scene, were back this year with their latest, Forgiveness Rock Record.

The album features guest appearances by Feist, Emily Haines (Metric), Spiral Stairs (Pavement), and Sebastien Grainger (Death from Above 1979), and also marks the first time Amy Shaw, Haines, and Feist have been recorded on the same song (Sentimental X's). My favorite track from the record (right now) is All to All, which iTunes describes as a weightless female vocal and synth dancetrip.

Broken Social Scene - All to All

More Broken Social Scene here.

Purchase Forgiveness Rock Record on iTunes.

Casiokids is a Norwegian electro-pop ensemble from Bergen, formed in 2005. NME described the band as "the best thing to come out of Norway since black metal" and have been compared to fellow Norwegian artists The Whitest Boy Alive, Royksopp, and Annie.




2010 saw the release of Topp stemning på lokal bar, which included the hit single Fot i hose. While Fot i hose is a great track, my favorite track from the album is most definitely Finn bikkjen!

Casiokids - Finn bikkjen!

More Casiokids here.

Purchase Topp stemning på lokal bar on iTunes.

coming soon: broken social scene

broken social scene are set to release their latest record, as-yet untitled, on may 4th, 2010. this is the follow up to their acclaimed self-titled album , released back in 2005. the new album was written by the current line-up: kevin drew and brendan canning, justin peroff, charles spearin, andrew whiteman and sam goldberg, and lisa lobsinger.

some alumni will also be making some guest appearances on the album. these include leslie feist, amy millan and evan cranley of stars, emily haines and jimmy shaw of metric, jason collett, ohad benchetrit of do make say think and years, john crossingham, marty kinack, leon kingstone, and julie penner.

listeners will also be treated to some contributions from by john mcentire, the sea and cake’s sam prekop, tortoise’s doug mccombs, pavement’s spiral stairs, sebastian grainger, poi dog pondering’s susan bells, helen money’s alison chesley and the weakerthans’ jason tait.

as always, stay tuned for more information as soon as i get ahold of it.

lastly, broken social scene will be playing some upcoming shows. a special pre-sale is on now at GalleryAC.com for tickets to the US tour dates. the pre-sale for these tickets will end on friday feb 5th at 6pm eastern time. Click here for more info.

5/1 @ the fillmore, san francisco, ca

5/3 @ the henry fonda theatre, los angeles, ca

5/7 @ webster hall, new york, ny

5/13 @ brixton academy, london, uk

5/14 @ all tomorrow's parties, minehead, uk

5/17 @ heaven, london, uk

5/18 @ melkweg, amsterdam, ne

5/19 @ bulgerhaus stollwerck, cologne, gr

5/21 @ la maroquinerie, paris, fr

6/19 @ toronto island, toronto, on

more info: www.brokensocialscene.ca