"I was in a cathedral yesterday, watching people sing as a collective break from the overall impending doom and gloom of everyday life, and it was the same kind of trip offered by my music," he says.
But what does it say when we can't take a collective break for ten minutes while walking down the street?
By the time Chairlift took the stage later in the night, the audience took a collective break from the installations to gather in front of the stage and sway to the clear voice of Caroline Polachek, which echoed beautifully throughout the great architectural space designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Broken Social Scene finally return It's five years since the last full album by the Canadian art-rock collective Broken Social Scene.
It was this third collection of linked stories about the whole messy, painful, miraculous business of becoming a mother that really made her name, provoking something of a collective breaking of the waters on the subject.
Mr. Collett, from the Toronto-based indie collective Broken Social Scene, comes to town in support of his solo debut, "Motor Motel Love Songs" (Arts & Crafts), a winsome, often memorable collection of alt-country songs.
Now the museum is adding to that reputation by inviting Brendan Canning, a founder of the Canadian musical collective Broken Social Scene, to be the D.J. at a Memorial Day weekend dance party that is part of the opening of an exhibition of Canadian art that will continue through next spring.
Early 2003, and the Canadian collective Broken Social Scene become one of the first beneficiaries of what becomes known as "the Pitchfork effect", when their album You Forgot It In People gets a rave review from the US website, which is just approaching its position of the Most Influential Thing in Indie (it will help break Arcade Fire and destroy Travis Morrison).
8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Midtown, (212 840-2824, $24.50 and $29.50.(Sinagra) FEIST (Tomorrow) A pal and collaborator of the dirty electroclash queen Peaches and part of the Canadian indie collective Broken Social Scene, the warm-voiced Feist brings more of a cabaret swing to her own music.
Mr. Collett, from the Toronto-based indie collective Broken Social Scene, comes to town in support of his solo debut, "Motor Motel Love Songs" (Arts & Crafts), a winsome, often memorable collection of alt-country songs -- recommended to disillusioned Ryan Adams fans everywhere.
When a thought style, developed and employed by a collective, becomes sufficiently sophisticated, the collective breaks into a small esoteric circle a group of specialists which "are in the know"—and a wide exoteric circle for all those members, who are under the influence of the style, but do not play an active role in its formation.
