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| | Broken Social Scene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Whiteman has recorded as a solo artist, and was previously in the bands Que Vida and Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. | | | Broken Social Scene released their third full-length, self-titled album on October 4, 2005, with new contributors including k-os, Jason Tait and Murray Lightburn. | | | Broken Social Scene are a Canadian indie rock supergroup formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario. |
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| | Broken Social Scene |
| | BSS manages to straddle the line between originality and familiarity, as was the case three songs into its set when it played a blistering version of "Cause = Time." With that song, the group managed to evoke indie rock heroes Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. | | | Broken Social Scene's secret weapon is singer Leslie Feist, who managed to infuse energy into one song by simply bounding onstage and offering a series of handclaps in front of the microphone. | | | At the Fonda, Broken Social Scene was a guitar army, flanked at times by a pair of drummers, a horn section and a violinist. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001436160
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| | Blogcritics.org: CD Review: Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene |
| | While Broken Social Scene may have maintained essentially the same sound (more accurately, some of the same sonic qualities, and some of the songwriting tendencies) they have featured heavily in the past, this self-titled release is notable for its fundamentally different mood and feel. | | | At times, however, Broken Social Scene suffers from an unfortunate mundanity that wasn't nearly as heavily present in the band's past releases — which is not to say that this is a mundane album, but rather, it sometimes branches into territory that feels, at the least, over-trodden, both by Broken Social Scene and recent music. | | | With Broken Social Scene, the band has expounded upon their once-successful sound without significantly altering it, as is evidenced in tracks like "Hotel," "Finish Your Collapse and Stay For Breakfast" and "Tremoloa Debut," which, regrettably, comprise a very small portion of the release. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/27/225912.php
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| | Broken Social Scene - BlamoNet |
| | but have you really listened to the albums, i mean i think her work with bss far surpasses her work solo. | | | Broken Social Scene is one of the best, most innovative bands I've ever heard. | | | I think it is nicely understated and makes use of her voice which is amazing and doesn't need flashy music to make it sound cool. |
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http://www.blamonet.com/vb/showthread.php?t=80807
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| | Broken Social Scene News: Album Review: Broken Social Scene, "Broken Social Scene" (Arts & Crafts) >> liveDaily |
| | Broken Social Scene (music)'s self-titled sophomore effort gets underway in a deceivingly relaxed manner as an acoustic guitar is strummed softly. | | | The best is the anthemic final track, "It's All Gonna Break," which somehow manages to near-perfectly tie together all of Broken Social Scene's musical chaos. | | | While there's nothing quite as breathtaking as the previous album's "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl," a track that definitely conveys the same mesmerizing feel as Air's "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack, there are some that definitely come close. |
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http://www.livedaily.com/news/8917.html?t=103
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| | Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene (2005): Reviews |
| | The disc is disjointed, lacks much in the way of cohesive musical character, and ultimately never really reaches to be anything more than a bunch of decent songs held together in the semblance of an album. | | | The 14-song set is as bright and moving as the band's previous efforts, but Broken Social Scene holds more charisma, more depth, and surely more complexities. | | | This is the sound of things all falling apart, and few albums this year have sounded better. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/brokensocialscene/brokensocialscene
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| | Amazon.com: You Forgot It in People: Music: Broken Social Scene |
| | But the problem with this band is while some of the songs are very good, sonically they fall prey to almost every indie-pop-post-rock cliche in the book: low fi drums, whispered singing, etherial female voices, not adequately audible singing, and that not-quite-distorted-but-not-clean-either guitar sound. | | | A few other reviewers covered the Broken Social Scene's members routes, but bear in mind, this cd sounds nothing like their other band's recordings. | | | Rabid rock anthems are fused with brilliantly laid-back, coasting tunes that together make one of the most compatible and delightful albums I've heard in a long while. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008RBJU?v=glance
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| | Broken Social Scene played 5 tracks from their You Forgot It In People release at KVRX during their 2003 visit to Austin for a SXSW showcase. | | | i think that broken social scene is a great band by using several simple riffs to combine and form like a powerful rock voltron. | | | Maybe it wasn't posted here for a reason, the instrumentation is pleasantly different than what you hear on YFIP, but the recording of the vocals here is a bit of an injustice to the beauty of bss live. |
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http://www.kvrx.org/locallive/performance.php?pid=419
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| | Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene: Pitchfork Review |
| | The song ecstatically encapsulates Broken Social Scene's heightened ambitions and flawed Icarus journeys, conflating into a bold, brash love-in infatuated with its own bumps and bruises. | | | Looser and slightly kinkier, Broken Social Scene indulges in the pop eccentricities and keen melodic ears of more than a dozen Canadians who take willful pride in their ability to lock together into one solid unit and make good on the sum of their unique individual talents. | | | But here, that version is relegated to an accompanying EP (otherwise filled with mostly expendable outtakes and instrumentals) while the album version is slowed down and fogged up-- and decidedly less single-worthy. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/broken-social-scene/broken-social-scene.shtml
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| | Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority |
| | Amazingly, BSS convey all of this through sonics and sound, not through setting John Ralston Saul essays to music. | | | Both that and their subsequent Juno win could be cynically attributed to the fact that everyone in the Toronto scene knows someone in BSS personally, but that still doesn’t explain why they sold thousands of copies in local record stores on word of mouth alone, well before they signed a distribution deal with EMI Canada. | | | Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene has spent the better part of 2003 on the road, away from his Toronto home yet reminded of it daily. |
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http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid1=2127
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| | Broken Social Scene - PopMatters Concert Review |
| | They ended up having to share mics, an effect that brought to mind visions of Bruce and the E Street Band's trademark schtick, though this act was done not in the service of rock and roll showmanship, but rather, sheer necessity. | | | Al Green?) but the sheer, unforgivable lack of quality midsize venues is too high of a hurdle for most touring bands to clear. | | | The bands play in SWIM's tiny cellar-style cement basement; a set-up that is conducive to three- or four-piece punker groups, but maybe not quite so for 10-12 piece multi-instrumental Canadian musical collectives. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/concerts/b/broken-social-scene-030730.shtml
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| | BBC - Experimental Review - Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People |
| | We've been waxing lyrical about the Canadian music scene for a while now, and it's great to see a scene that continues to go from strength to strength while refusing to compromise for a few sales or features on MTV. | | | As with most great things, Broken Social Scene have come around almost by accident and releases this good usually signify an imminent split (remember MBV's Loveless, anyone?). | | | The band refuse to let go of their delicate song structures and beautiful hooks no matter how many layers they decide to throw on, or which of the four guitarists happens to switch instruments mid-song. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/brokenscene_forgot.shtml
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| | Official Ticketmaster site. Broken Social Scene tickets, dates |
| | These Toronto natives emerged onto the Indie scene with their debut album Feel Good Lost in 2001, quickly followed by their 2002 sophomore release, You Forget It In People... | | | These Toronto natives emerged onto the Indie scene with their debut album Feel Good Lost in 2001, quickly followed by their 2002 sophomore release, You Forget It In People. | | | The 11-piece band was praised by critics for their unique brand of lush, hypnotic rock, and You Forget It In People took the Juno Award (Canadian GRAMMY) for Alternative Album of the Year. |
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http://ticketmaster.ca/artist/875957?search_redirect=broken+social+scene&...
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| | MuchMusic.com Artists Broken Social Scene |
| | In early 2003, the Toronto based indie-collective Broken Social Scene quietly released You Forgot It In People to an unsuspecting Canadian audience. | | | You Forgot It in People" was the recipient of a Juno in 2003 in the coveted Album of The Year category... | | | YFIIP went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed releases of recent years, selling over 35,000 units in Canada (150,000 worldwide) and garnering heaps of praise from the likes of Rolling Stone to the New York Times. |
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http://www.muchmusic.com/music/artists/index.asp?artist=633
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| | Splendid: Features: Broken Social Scene |
| | Toronto's Broken Social Scene are the band responsible for what is arguably one of the most extraordinary pop records of recent memory, You Forgot It In People. | | | Naysayers may well be bored to tears at the mere mention of their name, but to the converted (and more than likely, the uninitiated), theirs is a music that sounds fresh, vital, and somehow universal. | | | Kevin Drew: Myself and Brendan (Canning) sort of are, because we had made a record together, and Brendan had been in many successful bands in Toronto. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/features/bss
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| | Criminal Records - Broken Social Scene : Broken Social Scene [Limited] * |
| | The fact that the band is reaching orchestra size doesn't affect the focus and intensity of the music a whit; in fact, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE is full of wild, ambitious music that is fleshed out with sophisticated arrangements, harmonies, horns, and plenty of surprising experimental touches. | | | Like the New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene includes members of several different bands (in this case the Dears, Stars, Feist, and Metric, among others), all of whom lend their remarkable talents to a band that equals more than the sum of its parts. | | | Criminal Records - Broken Social Scene : Broken Social Scene [Limited] * |
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http://www.buymusichere.net/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=93&upc=82759015002&pt=1
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| | Montreal Mirror - Music : Broken Social Scene |
| | Broken Social Scene (a moniker originally prefaced by “John Tesh Jr.,” the name Drew adopted to autograph Do Make Say Think vinyls across Europe) began as a low-slung basement project between Drew and Canning, who unveiled their instrumental, electronic results in the form of Feel Good Lost last year. | | | Before that, a scaled-down, six-piece version of the band will head out on a brief tour, but catch them while you can. | | | Montreal Mirror - Music : Broken Social Scene |
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| | Broken Social Scene: Bee Hives - PopMatters Music Review |
| | If you've ever seen Broken Social Scene live, you'll know that nearly all the members spend an inordinate amount of time onstage crouched over their effects pedals, creating waves of guitar drones and feedback, and this album sounds like an extension of that style. | | | The bizarre "Time=Cause" sounds darker and more cryptic than you'd expect from the band, with its blend of strings, strange harmonies, and haunting vocals, while the vibrant suite "da da da da" is the disc's most immediately charming, and ambitious, instrumental. | | | That said, it's not that bad an album at all. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/brokensocialscene-beehives.shtml
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| | Broken Social Scene Self-Title New LP, Release Track List |
| | But part of the BSS charm is that some of the album tracks don't feature the same artists. | | | BSS member Brendan Canning promises that the next few months will more than make up for the three-year break between records — he expects BSS to release another in the spring. | | | According to Billboard.com, BSS have now decided their new album will be self-titled, by way of their own label Arts & Crafts. |
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http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/08/0501.cfm
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| | New Broken Social Scene: More Horns, More Canadians |
| | To record the new album, Broken Social Scene went back to Stars and Sons studio (which inspired the name of a song on the last record) under the production of Dave Newfield, who also plays with the band. | | | August 04, 2005, 3:00 PM ET Charley Rogulewski, N.Y. Expect more horns and more Canadians on Broken Social Scene's highly anticipated new album, which was originally dubbed "Windsurfing Nation" but will now be a self-titled affair. | | | The band is still debating between a full-scale tour in October and November or just three live dates in Toronto, Montreal and New York. |
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http://billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001009319
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| | Broken Social Scene: triple j music reviews |
| | I've heard BSS described as 'pop music for people who hate pop music' - in a strange way I believe this description is quite apt. | | | If only the mainstream would turn their heads from the likes of Fanning and related company to similar Australian and overseas bands we may well have a musically revival. | | | This band just keeps on getting better...some of the most important music of out time. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s1476333.htm
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| | Broken Social Scene [AC014] - $14.98 : galleryac.com |
| | Not Logged In After a year of recording and writing, Broken Social Scene is a fine distillation of all the band's ambitions. | | | Hands-in-the-air anthems, daydream comedowns, sprawling jams -- this is a long, winding road of a record that goes places to which even BSS are surprised to have arrived. | | | Available for download is the entire 14-song record. |
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| | Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene, Album Review |
| | Search Terms:Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene (City Slang 23/01/06), Album Review, Music review, album review, single review, band interview, artist interview, free music, live review, live music, music concerts, music news, free mp3 | | | As if 14 tracks of varied veracity weren’t enough, the kind Canadians provide their own January sale by throwing in a free seven track E.P. entitled ‘To Be Me And You’ that has a prominent spacey/art feel. | | | Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (City Slang 23/01/06) - Album Review |
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http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/brokensocialscenex09x01x06
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| | Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People: Pitchfork Review |
| | It's been an absolute bitch so far, and awfully disheartening, but I've hit paydirt a couple of times, and in those moments of glory, it's been worth wading through every cut-up Cuban big beat record, every generic Midwestern rock record, every bar band, every swing band. | | | I wish I could convey to you just how perfectly this record pulls off that balancing act, how incredibly catchy and hummable these songs are, despite their refusal to resort to pandering or oversimplicity. | | | This kind of music shouldn't be hard to come by; it's just that not many artists are able to perfect that balance. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/broken-social-scene/you-forgot-it-in-people.shtml
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| | YouTube - broken social scene-anthems |
| | broken, social, scene, anthem, of, 17, year, old | | | Broken Social Scene Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl live | | | Added on December 14, 2005, 12:22 AM by dervii |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music: Broken Social Scene ever-changing |
| | It's all designed, Drew says, to help people to "make a little more sense of this record." For as Broken Social Scene's 14 dense mixtures of melody and discord demonstrate, the band's music is no more predictable than is its lineup. | | | Hence, armed with a hearty new meal of an album -- simply titled Broken Social Scene, likely to further emphasize that 'there's a band there' point -- the core lineup of Drew, Canning, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman and Justin Peroff is hitting the road. | | | Kevin Drew is outside his Toronto home, hopping into a cab while discussing the finer points of his band Broken Social Scene. |
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http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2005/10/19/1268394.html
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| | Broken Social Scene - Hotel - Last.fm |
| | Of all 82,542 people that have listened to songs by Broken Social Scene, this represents 16.1%. | | | 13,278 people have listened to Hotel by Broken Social Scene. | | | Music > Broken Social Scene > Broken Social Scene > Hotel |
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| | NOW: Broken Social Scene, Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2004 |
| | BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE with JIM GUTHRIE as part of the Gobsmacked! | | | When the disc dropped that December on Paper Bag Records, the Toronto press went nuts. | | | About two years ago, BSS was a loose-knit collective of "friends and lovers" with a lineup that changed depending on who showed up for their local shows. |
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-08-26/cover_story.php
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| | Broken Social Scene, Stars Plan Japan Tour |
| | As previously reported, Broken Social Scene's next Arts and Crafts album is due in late March or early April. | | | Stars will release its new album, "Set Yourself on Fire," is due March 8 in the United States via Arts and Crafts but has already been released in Canada. | | | Although details are still being nailed down, Broken Social Scene, the Dears, Death From Above 1979 and Stars will embark on a Japanese tour in May. "It will be interesting -- it's part of an expo," Stars lead singer Torquil Campbell told Billboard.com prior to the group's two-night stand last weekend in Toronto. |
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http://billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000740124
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| | SPIN.com: Broken Social Scene, Broken On Tour |
| | Metric can't exist without me, but Social Scene can." Lisa Lobsinger, a former member of the Calgary band Reverie Sound Review, has replaced Haines on the current BSS tour. | | | Feist will also lend her dulcet pipes to the BSS tour, as she is opening for the band on most of their US dates. | | | That's why Broken Social Scene is touring without some of its members this fall. |
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http://www.spin.com/features/news/2005/10/051027_broken_social_scene
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| | { LOVER'S SPIT } ... |
| | Welcome to Lover's Spit, the only approved fanlisting for the band Broken Social Scene. | | | { LOVER'S SPIT } The Broken Social Scene Fanlisting |
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| | Broken Social Scene/Stars |
| | Their appropriately named second album, Heart -- full of whimsy and oh!-so-preciousness -- is as twee as it wants to be. | | | When sometime Broken Social Scenester Evan Cranley isn't helping out his pals, he's busy as a member of Montreal's Stars, who'll play Saturday. | | | That a group with such shifting membership can craft songs this memorable -- just try to keep the pop-anthemic "Almost Crimes" out of your head -- means they're more than worthy of wild adoration when they play on Friday. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2003-09-18/musicpicks8.shtml
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| | To Do: Vice And Broken Social Scene |
| | · Broken Social Scene guitarist Andrew Whitman takes to the Tonic stage tonight with his band Apostle of Hustle. | | | · To Do: Dan Okrent Opens For Broken Social Scene | | | · Britney: From the Bottom of My Broken Heart |
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| | Broken Social Site |
| | Broken Social Site: the first fan site for the indie band, Broken Social Scene | | | subliminal message #004: you'll do anything for Broken Social Scene |
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| | Broken Social Scene Tickets at StubHub! |
| | And music fans, if you have extra Broken Social Scene Tickets you can't use, sell them to other fans by listing your tickets for sale FREE at StubHub. | | | Buy great Broken Social Scene Tickets and experience the thrill of a live concert. | | | Check back soon for Broken Social Scene Tickets. |
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| | Broken Social Scene (kottke.org) |
| | I didn't think much of it at first, but after listening to it a few times, it's really grown on me and has become a regular in the rotation on my iPod. | | | If you're strapped for new music and flush with cash, you might want to check out You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene. | | | If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic. |
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| | Broken Social Scene on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
| | Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member). | | | Im going to see Broken Social Scene In 3 weeks, I'm way excited. | | | To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and |
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