{"id":266567,"date":"2026-02-04T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266567\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:59:09","slug":"broken-social-scene-reveal-new-album-summer-tour-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266567\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Social Scene Reveal New Album, Summer Tour Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCanadian indie rock icons Broken Social Scene<\/a> are coming back this spring, and not a moment too soon. The many-membered Toronto band announced today that their sixth studio album, Remember the Humans<\/a>, will arrive May 8 on their own Arts and Crafts label. It\u2019s their first full-length album in nearly a decade, and if the first single \u201cNot Around Anymore\u201d is any indication, it\u2019s going to deliver plenty of the woozy affirmation and shambolic joy that Broken Social Scene do better than anyone.<\/p>\n

\n\tCredits for Remember the Humans reveal that this album features many familiar faces from the extended BSS universe, including singer Kevin Drew, guitarists\/multi-instrumentalists Charles Spearin, Brendan Canning, Sam Goldberg, Andrew Whiteman, and Jimmy Shaw, drummer Justin Peroff, trombonist Evan Cranley, and more, plus vocals from Feist<\/a>, Amy Millan, Lisa Lobsinger, Ariel Engle, and Hannah Georgas. It\u2019s a proper Broken Social Scene reunion, in other words.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe name that will draw the most attention from longtime fans is that of producer David Newfeld, who was a crucial part of the studio alchemy that went into the band\u2019s two best albums, 2002\u2019s You Forgot It in People and 2005\u2019s Broken Social Scene. This is huge news if you\u2019re someone who treasures the over-stuffed, uncontainable, transcendent rock sound that Broken Social Scene achieved with Newfeld at the helm in the 2000s. <\/p>\n

\n\tA press bio accompanying the announcement says that Newfeld and Drew reconnected recently after many years out of touch, and notes that both of them lost their mothers during the making of Remember the Humans. The producer is quoted as saying, \u201cOur moms would have wanted us to do this, and get it right after 20 years of not working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBroken Social Scene have not released a full-length album since 2017\u2019s Hug of Thunder; their most recent project was a pair of EPs in 2019. When those EPs came out, Drew told Rolling Stone<\/a> that he already had new music in mind: \u201cThere is a next album. There\u2019s a mission: to mellow things out a little bit, and get back to the roots of where it all started from.\u201d Seven years later, it looks like that\u2019s coming true.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe band has also announced a summer tour with the closely associated bands Metric<\/a> and Stars<\/a>. The All the Feelings Tour, which they promise will be \u201ca celebration of lifelong friendship and creative communion amongst the Toronto legends,\u201d begins in early June in Austin, Texas, before wrapping two months later back home in Ontario.<\/p>\n

\t\tBroken Social Scene, Metric, Stars 2026 tour dates\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJune 8 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
June 9 \u2013 Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
June 11 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
June 13 \u2013 Sandy, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater
June 16 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
June 17 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
June 19 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
June 21 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
June 24 \u2013 Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater
July 24 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
July 25 \u2013 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
July 27 \u2013 Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
July 28 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
July 30 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Aug. 1 \u2013 Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Aug. 3 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Aug. 4 \u2013 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
Aug. 7 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian indie rock icons Broken Social Scene are coming back this spring, and not a moment too soon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[151830,275,156,77304,26749,157,111,139,69,5436],"class_list":{"0":"post-266567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-broken-social-scene","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-feist","12":"tag-metric","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}