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06/15/2026

Broken Social Scene & Friends presents: 🤍

Over the course of five albums, Hannah Georgas has swiftly carved out a musical niche blending melancholy indie and vibrant alt pop. She’s worked with a variety of artists over the years, having recently wrapped a tour supporting friend Aaron Dessner (The National, Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten).

In her recent collaboration with Broken Social Scene, Georgas was closely involved in the making of ‘Remember The Humans’. She wrote & performs lead vocals on “Only The Good I Keep,” bringing a bright, steady rhythm to one of the album’s most anthemic tracks.

Shop her catalogue through A&C now, with 20% off the following titles –

I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care
All That Emotion

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Explore the wider world of Broken Social Scene through Arts & Crafts’ collection of connected projects, collaborators, and longtime friends – now 20% off for a limited time with code BSS&friends20.

Hovvdy’s new single “Blast” from their upcoming album ‘Big World,’ is out now.With lyrics like "touchdown / small town,"...
06/12/2026

Hovvdy’s new single “Blast” from their upcoming album ‘Big World,’ is out now.

With lyrics like "touchdown / small town," the song is an ode to where Hovvdy started. It's proof that even a decade on, Will & Charlie's roots are still humming beneath everything they make, steady and unchanged.

It’s accompanied by a video shot on film in Nashville by Michael Rees.

Hovvdy is on tour this summer supporting Bleachers in June and Wilco in August. Their headline North American tour will begin in the Fall.

Listen to “Blast” & pre-save Big World, which will be yours August 14th.

06/10/2026

Broken Social Scene & Friends presents: ✴️

Kevin Drew has spent the better part of the last three decades as a central figure in independent music. As co-founder of and Arts & Crafts, he’s helped curate not only a catalogue of influential & well-loved records, but an entire creative orbit that continues to connect artists & spur collaborations.

Within his solo project, Drew has released four albums, beginning with ‘Spirit If…’ (2007), a record featuring contributions from Charles Spearin, his longtime collaborator and bandmate in the pre-BSS KC Accidental. His work has also stretched into film scoring, production, and wider collaborations with artists such as Gord Downie and Andy Kim.

Shop his catalogue through A&C now, with 20% off the following titles –

Spirit If...
Darlings
Influences
Aging

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Explore the wider world of Broken Social Scene through Arts & Crafts’ collection of connected projects, collaborators, and longtime friends – now 20% off for a limited time with code BSS&friends20.

06/04/2026

Broken Social Scene & Friends presents: 🪞

Across nine albums, Jason Collett has built a catalogue of sharp, rootsy folk-rock. ‘Idols of Exile’ (2005), his second album with Arts & Crafts, features contributions from fellow members: Kevin Drew, Leslie Feist, and Brendan Canning.

Collett’s influence extends beyond his own catalogue; he joined Broken Social Scene in the mid-2000s, touring and recording with the band in the years that followed. In 2007, he launched , the Toronto live series that brings together musicians, writers, poets, and artists for one-off performances at iconic venues across the city. Nearly two decades on, it remains a space for collaboration and cross-pollination in the city’s indie scene.

Shop his catalogue through A&C now, with 20% off the following titles –

Motor Motel Love Song (CDs)
Idols Of Exile
Here’s To Being Here
Pony Tricks (CDs)
Reckon
Rat A Tat Tat
Song And Dance Man
Head Full Of Wonder

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Explore the wider world of Broken Social Scene through Arts & Crafts’ collection of connected projects, collaborators, and longtime friends – now 20% off for a limited time with code BSS&friends20.

05/29/2026

Broken Social Scene & Friends presents: 🫀

Leslie Feist has carved out her own niche in the indie music space; balancing intimacy with experimentation across twenty years and five records – each oscillating between folk, indie pop, and art rock – earning six Juno wins, four Grammy nominations, a Polaris shortlist prize, playing on Saturday Night Live, and still making time to teach muppets to count on Sesame Street.

But before all of that, Feist was (and still is) a core member of Broken Social Scene. Joining the band in 2000, she became one of the defining voices of their formative years – “Almost Crimes” and “7/4 Shoreline” both threaded by her voice. Even as Feist’s career became something singular, her connection to the collective remained, contributing to ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’ (2010), ‘Hug of Thunder’ (2017), and most recently, ‘Remember The Humans,’ where she muses on the passing of time on “What Happens Now”.

Shop her catalogue through A&C now, with 20% off the following titles –

Let It Die
The Reminder
Metals

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Explore the wider world of Broken Social Scene through Arts & Crafts’ collection of connected projects, collaborators, and longtime friends – now 20% off for a limited time with code BSS&friends20.

Today, Jean-Michel Blais announces his new studio album, ‘mirador.’ The Montreal pianist and composer's fourth album fin...
05/29/2026

Today, Jean-Michel Blais announces his new studio album, ‘mirador.’ The Montreal pianist and composer's fourth album finds him turning his gaze onto a wide, wondrous world - exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It is an odyssey that spans choirs, strings and the music of the Andes, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the way back to the basement in Nicolet, Québec, where Blais first imagined his adventures.

Out now is lead single “ulysse,” marking the expansion not only of Blais’ post-classical sonic catalogue, but also of the inner world he chooses to reveal. For Jean-Michel, “ulysse” is a portal: it's “the sensation of stepping out of a wardrobe, a renewed coming out, and freedom appears not as promise, but as chosen risk, as adventure willingly embraced,” he says.

Blais will be embarking on a North American & European tour beginning this October, spending some extra time in Quebec along the way.

Listen to “ulysse” & pre-save ‘mirador’ now

05/27/2026

Broken Social Scene & Friends presents: ⭐

Stars (Torquil Campbell, Chris Seligman, Amy Millan, Evan Cranley, Patrick McGee) have spent over two decades making cinematic, heart-on-their-sleeve indie pop. Since relocating from NYC to Montreal in 2001, they’ve released four records via Arts & Crafts.

Stars has long been enmeshed with , with both Millan & Cranley moving fluidly between both bands over the years – touring, recording, and collaborating together, including on Remember The Humans. Both bands exist within a shared creative circle that continues to define much of the Toronto/Montreal indie landscape, and which expands this summer on the ALL THE FEELINGS tour.

Shop their catalogue through A&C now, with 20% off the following titles – 

Set Yourself on Fire
In Our Bedroom After The War
Set Yourself on Fire (20th Anniversary Addition)

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Explore the wider world of Broken Social Scene through Arts & Crafts’ collection of connected projects, collaborators, and longtime friends – now 20% off for a limited time with code BSS&friends20.

Today, Hovvdy announce their sixth album ‘Big World’. Out August 14, the record arrives on the heels of Hovvdy’s 2024 se...
05/13/2026

Today, Hovvdy announce their sixth album ‘Big World’.

Out August 14, the record arrives on the heels of Hovvdy’s 2024 self-titled album with a palpable sense of expansion – songs that stretch outwards and fill every room that they’re played in – while still being rooted in the close, unguarded intimacy characteristic of the Texas duo.

Lead single “Try Try Try” is out today, with vocals that carry a soft Southern lilt and bright guitar lines that flicker along the edges. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Michael Rees.

Pre-orders for Big World are now live.
In the meantime, listen to “Try Try Try”.

Hovvdy will also embark on North American tour in support of Big World in the Fall, following Summer dates supporting Wilco and Bleachers. Tickets go on sale Friday via hovvdy.com

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For the first time in almost a decade, Broken Social Scene returns with ‘Remember The Humans’ – twelve new songs about t...
05/11/2026

For the first time in almost a decade, Broken Social Scene returns with ‘Remember The Humans’ – twelve new songs about the forward pull of time, nostalgia’s seductions, and above all, art’s capacity to guide us through.

Led by the vibrant, steady rhythm of Hannah Georgas’ “Only The Good I Keep,” this is the sound of a band deepening rather than reinventing, exploring the emotional implications of forms they have spent over twenty years shaping.

“There’s a different kind of honesty in this record,” says BSS’ Charles Spearin. “We’ve had success, we’ve lost friends, we’ve lost parents, we’re at this ‘what happens next?’ stage in life.” ‘Remember the Humans’ is adult music in the best sense: contradictory, wounded, expansive - hopeful in a way that feels earned rather than declared.

It is also, in its refusal of control and its embrace of the ungovernable, a testament to something increasingly rare: art that is not optimized, not streamlined, not strategic, but human.

Listen now. And, catch the band on their world tour – tickets available at the link in our bio.

“The Call,” Broken Social Scene's latest single, is a sprawling collective of voices and instrumentation. Led by Andrew ...
04/16/2026

“The Call,” Broken Social Scene's latest single, is a sprawling collective of voices and instrumentation. Led by Andrew Whiteman's enigmatic pen, the track commands forward movement without certainty, action rooted in instinct. The lyrics come in fragments, converging into one urgent imperative: “let me hear the call/‘we’re going’/either restless or reborn, we’re going”.

In its sense of communal momentum, "The Call" is Broken Social Scene as we've always known them. It is the sound of individuals dissolving into something bigger than themselves; the band’s long-practiced alchemy at work. But while other tracks on ‘Remember The Humans’ are more cerebral, “The Call” is anatomic. Carrying with it a sense of animal urgency, it is breath and pulse, sweat and nerves.

“The Call” is out today, and accompanying it, a spellbinding video created by Jordan Allen.

The new album 'Remember The Humans’ is coming May 8. Pre-save, pre-order, and grab your tickets to see the album performed live on the ALL THE FEELINGS TOUR, with friends Metric & Stars.

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