{"id":12930,"date":"2012-10-16T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2012-10-16T09:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:17:04","slug":"watch-jason-collett-perform-on-cbc-with-broken-social-scenes-kevin-drew-and-brendan-canning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/watch-jason-collett-perform-on-cbc-with-broken-social-scenes-kevin-drew-and-brendan-canning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jason Collett Perform on CBC with Broken Social Scene&#8217;s Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jason_collett_reckon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12943\" title=\"jason_collett_reckon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jason_collett_reckon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jason_collett_reckon.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jason_collett_reckon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jason_collett_reckon-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We loved former<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/broken-social-anthems-that-fall-from-the-sky\/\"><strong> Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/a> member <strong>Jason Collett&#8217;s<\/strong> 2005 album<strong> Idols of Exile<\/strong> and 2008&#8217;s <strong>Here&#8217;s to Being Here<\/strong>.\u00a0 Now the indie singer\/songwriter is back with a monstrous and stylistically-varied 15-song collection entitled <strong>Reckon <\/strong>(along with an an 11-song career-spanning retrospective entitled <strong>Essential Cuts<\/strong> that contains two previously unreleased b-sides).\u00a0 On the new album, Collett is backed by some of Canada&#8217;s best musicians, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/broken-social-scenes-and-their-constituents\/\"><strong>Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning<\/strong> from<strong> Broken Social Scene<\/strong> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-08\/watch-bahamas-perform-lost-in-the-light\/\"><strong>Afie Jurvanen <\/strong>of<strong> Bahamas<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The album center&#8217;s around Collett&#8217;s observations (while on tour in the U.S.) of our economic crisis, its causes and its impacts (though with a more subtle, less-jackhammer approach).<\/p>\n<p>Collett showed up recently on <strong>CBC<\/strong> to perform a set of songs from the new album, backed by a big band including the likes of<strong> Drew,<\/strong><strong> Canning<\/strong> and <strong>Jurvanen<\/strong><strong><\/strong>. We love the sounds generated by Collett and compatriots at CBC, and especially on new songs <em><strong>Where Things Go Wrong,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> I&#8217;ll Bring the Sun,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><\/strong>and older song<em><strong> Fire<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check those and a few others below to get a great feel for this artist and his new album.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hJosqYD2DiE&#038;feature=em-uploademail-new<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MgZVbWkiOw&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eg75R7v42t8&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvh8pceXjbs&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2d-hhTFw_N8&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyJ0hmcWkWw&#038;feature=em-uploademail-new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We loved former Broken Social Scene member Jason Collett&#8217;s 2005 album Idols of Exile and 2008&#8217;s Here&#8217;s to Being Here.\u00a0 Now the indie singer\/songwriter is back with a monstrous and stylistically-varied 15-song collection entitled Reckon (along with an an 11-song career-spanning retrospective entitled Essential Cuts that contains two previously unreleased b-sides).\u00a0 On the new album, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}