{"id":27530,"date":"2017-06-26T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27530"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:22:32","slug":"listen-to-broken-social-scenes-new-song-stay-happy-new-west-coast-tour-dates-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-06\/listen-to-broken-social-scenes-new-song-stay-happy-new-west-coast-tour-dates-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Broken Social Scene&#8217;s New Song &#8220;Stay Happy&#8221;&#8211; New West Coast Tour Dates Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick-650x430.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick-650x430.png 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick-450x297.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSKick.png 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-06\/watch-broken-social-scene-perform-new-songs-on-kcrw-playing-the-arroyo-seco-weekend-tomorrow\/\">mentioned repeatedly<\/a> on these pages, the considerable Canadian collective <a href=\"http:\/\/brokensocialscene.ca\/\"><strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/a> will next week drop their long-awaited new album <em><strong>Hug of Thunder<\/strong><\/em>. The band is out on tour tightly re-knitting their social scene to support their impending album, including a &#8220;<strong>Best of Festival<\/strong>&#8221; outing at the <strong>Arroyo Seco Weekend<\/strong>\u00a0this past Saturday. Continuing to stoke the scene, <strong>BSS<\/strong> today released the album-version of formidable new song <em><strong>Stay Happy<\/strong><\/em> and announced additional West Coast dates to their fall tour (see dates at bottom), including the <strong>Wiltern Theater<\/strong> on 10\/28. Get tix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/brokensocialscene\/events\/?ref=page_internal\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without further adieu, compare and contrast below the recorded version and the live version of <em><strong>Stay Happy<\/strong><\/em> as performed on <strong>KCRW<\/strong> last week. Newcomer <strong>Ariel Engle<\/strong> delivers the enlivening vocals on the song. There will be verve. <em><strong>Hug Of Thunder<\/strong><\/em> was produced by the acclaimed\u00a0<strong>Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Spoon, The Strokes)<\/strong> with <strong>Nyles Spencer<\/strong>, and mixed by <strong>Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer)<\/strong>. \u00a0You can pre-order <em><strong>Hug of Thunder<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/brokensocialscene.craft-shop.ca\/brokensocialscene-hugofthunder\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gdo2ZBWWQyg\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QyKthkEE904\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tour dates:<br \/>\n7-21-23-17 Edmonton, AB @ Interstellar Rodeo<br \/>\n8-05-17 Montreal, Quebec @ Osheaga<br \/>\n9\/16\/17 Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre ~<br \/>\n9\/17\/17 New York, NY @ Meadows Music &amp; Art festival<br \/>\n9\/19\/17 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ~<br \/>\n9\/21\/17 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel ~<br \/>\n9\/22\/17 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *<br \/>\n9\/24\/17 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *<br \/>\n9\/26\/17 Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman *<br \/>\n9\/27\/17 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater *<br \/>\n9\/28\/17 St. Paul, MN @ The Palace *<br \/>\n9\/29\/17 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom *<br \/>\n9\/30\/17 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *<br \/>\n10\/1\/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Byham Theater *<br \/>\n10\/3\/17 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore<br \/>\n10\/5\/17 Portland, ME @ State Theater *<br \/>\n10\/6\/17 New Haven, CT @ College Street *<br \/>\n10\/7\/17 Boston, MA @ House of Blues<br \/>\n10\/21\/17 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom ~<br \/>\n10\/23\/17 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre ~<br \/>\n10\/24\/17 Portland, WA @ Crystal Ballroom ~<br \/>\n10\/26\/17 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater ~<br \/>\n10\/28\/17 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ~<br \/>\n11\/1\/17 Windsor, ON @ Family Credit Union #<br \/>\n11\/3\/17 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre #<br \/>\n11\/4\/17 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre #<\/p>\n<p>~ &#8211; with The Belle Game<br \/>\n* &#8211; with Frightened Rabbit<br \/>\n# &#8211; with Arcade Fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned repeatedly on these pages, the considerable Canadian collective Broken Social Scene will next week drop their long-awaited new album Hug of Thunder. The band is out on tour tightly re-knitting their social scene to support their impending album, including a &#8220;Best of Festival&#8221; outing at the Arroyo Seco Weekend\u00a0this past Saturday. Continuing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27530","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\/27530","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=27530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27536,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions\/27536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}