Subject: Broken Social Scene

• Win Butler with the Swish!!

  July 26, 2007

• Free Press Houston Announces "Summer Fest" Line-Up

  The chill dudes across town at Free Press Houston dropped an awesome bomb this afternoon, announcing their two-day "Summer Fest" shindig, set to go down August 8 and 9 at Eleanor Tinsley Park. Tickets are at $7 for each day, with the line-up spread out over those two days. The headliners that Editor Omar Afra and his team have secured are mind-blowing, in addition to the amassed stable of talent that Houston has begun to build up in the past few years rounding out the bill. This show is some

  June 3, 2009

• Proletariat’s Denise Ramos: “It Just Didn’t Make Sense for Me to Keep Dealing with This”

  December 13, 2007

• Aftermath: Deerhunter at Warehouse Live

  Photos courtesy of Liz Countryman You know the feeling of putting on a homemade scarf just woven by your 90-year old great-grandma? That scarf is Deerhunter; only now two of your seventh-grade bullies are standing on either side of you pulling it as tightly as they can if only to choke you out. Deerhunter is a pillow made of porcupine, or staring at the moon during a hurricane. Giant needles poking the arm floaties of a three-year-old trying to learn how to swim (and now the water is turning

  December 4, 2008

• Tickets for Los Campesinos, Broken Social Scene, Appleseed Cast, Monotonix On Sale Now

  Local promoter Pegstar has just put tickets on sale for the following shows: Los Campesinos (with Titus Andronicus), January 29, Walter's on Washington Broken Social Scene (with the Lymbic System), February 2, Numbers

  January 7, 2009

• Tonight: Broken Social Scene at Numbers

  Poster by Mr. CastilloSince 1999, Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene have made consistently brilliant and always original experimental baroque-pop music, enlisting the help of a myriad of artists along the way: Metric's Emily Haines, Leslie "1,2,3,4" Feist, Jason Collett, Amy Millan of Stars and Jason Tait of The Weakerthans. Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew, BSS' two founding members, both have solo records in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series. Rocks Off

  February 2, 2009

• Aftermath: Broken Social Scene at Numbers

  Photos by Mark C. AustinOn the one hand you have your "scene," you know the one. With the super-skinny jeans, the ambivalently knotted skinny ties, the American Spirits blown carefully through the nose, the ironic hair. And on the other, you have your Broken Social Scene. With the music. And those voices. And all the majesty that comes with perfect-sounding noise. And the confusion of where is that sound coming from, wait, did I just hear that? And, you know, the music. Welcome to the ye

  February 3, 2009

• Aftermath: Annuals at Walter's On Washington

  Photos by Liz Countryman If you could squeeze music from the udders of a cow, pour it a cup, mix in equal parts chocolate sauce and broken up pieces of stained glass stolen from the Vatican, drink it while on the down-slope of a roller-coaster, go home and sit on the back-porch and listen to your great-grandfather talk about snow while eating corn on the cob until you think to yourself "Goddamn, I need some ecstasy," you'd have an idea of what it's like to see Annuals. They are original because

  February 13, 2009

• Los Campesinos!

  January 29, 2009

• Elf Power, with Lazy Horse and the Missing Files

  April 24, 2008

• Goodbye, Proletariat

  The Montrose clubhouse is closing. What now?

  January 10, 2008

• Do Make Say Think

  Catching up with Canadian instrumental wizards Do Make Say Think

  September 27, 2007

• Headlights

  Kill Them With Kindness

  October 5, 2006

• Band of Horses

  Saturday, June 24, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513

  June 22, 2006

• Hello, Moon

  Indie-rock artists spin straw into gold � for the children

  March 23, 2006

• Told You So

  Racket gets his gloat on

  February 16, 2006

• Let There Be Rock

  Ten albums that make it easy to avoid fretting about your old-fashioned, Rockist ways

  December 8, 2005

• Live for Today

  Metric unleashes its inner Sonic Youth on an incendiary new CD

  November 10, 2005

• Stars, with the Jim Yoshii Pile-Up

  Thursday, November 3, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  November 3, 2005

• Great Balls of Fire

  The Arcade Fire's vast, spastic music will have you confused, thrilled and begging for more

  January 20, 2005

• Playbill

  September 16, 2004

• Pitchfork's Progress

  Will a sassy, hip Web site spell doom for printed rock criticism?

  June 3, 2004

• Need New Bodywith Make Believe and Hella

  Wednesday, May 19

  May 13, 2004

• Hang the Airwaves

  Danseparc, Substance and Stereo Bar reinvent the steel wheels

  May 6, 2004

• Broken Social Scene

  Saturday, March 20

  March 18, 2004

• Canadian Invasion

  SXSW heaps sloppy seconds on Houston

  March 18, 2004

• The Dears

  May 14, 2009

• Girl Star, Grown Up

  June 11, 2009

• Before We Go: House of Blues' "Rock & Roll" Night, Tontons, Gallant Knight, a Willie D Tribute, Britney Returns and More

  Tonight, see how - or where, anyway - the beautiful people kick back at House of Blues' new weekly "Rock & Roll" night in the venue's ultra-plush and oddly brothel-like Foundation Room (entrance on Dallas Street), with no cover, $3 beer and whiskey, tunes curated by Metropol/Stuka/Mink veteran Tim Murrah. "We are gonna grime it up," promises promoter Jagi Katial. We're there. Also tonight, the Tontons will debut several songs from the local quartet's forthcoming full-length - which they just

  June 10, 2009

• Pump Up the Volume

  July 16, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Muhammidali

  ​ All this week, Rocks Off's daily MP3 will spotlight the best and brightest of the local bands gracing this weekend's two-day Free Press Summer Fest indie blowout at Eleanor Tinsley Park. Free Press Houston has assembled quite the lineup, with out-of-towners like Of Montreal, Broken Social Scene and Prince Paul headlining the weekend. After a national mini-summer tour this past June and July, Houston's own prize-fighting Muhammidali (one name intact) came home to lay down a few demo tracks wh

  August 3, 2009

• Free Press Summer Fest

  August 6, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Yes, There Are Summer Fest Tickets Left

  ​Rocks Off just got off the phone with Free Press Houston editor/publisher Omar Afra, the Bill Graham of Saturday and Sunday's Summer Fest. After disguising himself as "that guy from that punk band you wrote those bad things about" - dude, you're going to have to be more specific than that - Afra asked us to get the word out that although no more Summer Fest tickets are available online or in stores, plenty will be available at Eleanor Tinsley Park tomorrow. The box office opens at 10 a.m.; th

  August 7, 2009

• Aftermath: Still More Summer Fest at Eleanor Tinsley Park

  Photos by Amber RousselDevin the Dude, retinue in tow​​Summer Fest paid out much more than necessary over its two-day span, offering local artists the chance to take the same stage as major artist and, rather than be treated like small opening acts by an unknowing crowd, some audience members knew the words to their songs better than to the headliners'. As for those major artists, their sets were solid, but didn't do it for us quite like the locals. Devin the Dude brought up everyone in his

  August 10, 2009

• Aftermath: Even More Summer Fest at Eleanor Tinsley Park

  Photos (except where specified) by Adam P. NewtonHipster... or hippie?​ Let's get the obligatory Summer Fest comments, critiques and criticisms out of the way first: yes, it was hot; yes, unfortunately, there was limited water available; and yes, there was a glaring lack of box-office infrastructure Saturday. Did you really expect anything different from a first-time festival being held in August in Houston? To dismiss this past weekend's overarching success based on such situational happensta

  August 11, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Video Killed the Radio Star

  Although audio-visual equipment isn't technically allowed inside the festival, that doesn't prevent kids armed with iPhones and Flip cams from capturing their favorite shows from the crowd. Below are some of our favorite crowd-captured videos from ACL so far. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  October 3, 2009