Gee, did we not call this from practically day one or what? The answer, in case you’re curious, is yes.
Anyone that knows the tightly-knit group of Toronto, indie rock musicians revolving around Broken Social Scene knows, when one tentacle of their expansive membership is involved in a project, usually that means another one is not far behind. So, when Canadian synth-rockers Metric were announced to be part of Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” we simply assumed that their counterparts in BSS (and other local artists) would be in the film (it didn’t hurt that founding Broken member Kevin Drew was seen hanging out with Edgar Wright, Radiohead and ‘Scott Pilgrim’ music director/producer/ curator Nigel Godrich last year in Toronto). So yes, it’s true.
Wright himself let the cat out of the bag in a recent Eye Weekly video interview we transcribed.
Asked if he was a fan of Metric, the new-wave-y Canadian rockers who so far are including a B-side in the film (puulease, you know they’re gonna do more than that) Wright said, “Absolutely. I suggested them being in it, Metric and Broken Social Scene are involved as well.”
There you go. Ok, so far we know that Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Metric, Broken Social Scene and hard-rock favorites Sloan are involved, but if you want more clues to what the music will be, most of it is much of it is hinted at in the original books by Bryan Lee O’Mally (we’ve laid it all out here with info on all the bands in the graphic novels too; our guess is you’ll see more of the extended Broken Social Scene family, probably Joel Plaskett and his now defunct Great White Rock indie rock bands Thrush Hermit, Zumpano, Be Your Own Pet and if Edgar is keen enough to use the Superfriendz’s underappreciated classic, “Karate Man” (a fun appropriate song considering the kung-fu action sequences in the film), we can probably die happy.
Broken Social Scene are always involved in some kind of film work and will be seen next doing a small cameo covering Joy Division in “The Time Traveler’s Wife” due in August of this year. There last major film appearance was recording about four new tunes for Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments.”
Here’s “Karate Man.” C’mon Edgar, you know you have to use it. Before we forget, we should plug our friend Stuart Berman’s BSS book coming out May 15 called, “This Book Is Broken.”
Broken Social Scene – “Ibi Dreams of Pavement”
Can you please turn off the BSS track? I’m getting stares at work.
Thanks!
Weird, it wouldn’t play for me, but i hoped to leave it there so people would seek out the track. it’s so great. the other embed on the CBC site was 10,000 x too big.
and the douchebag blog of the day award goes to: the playlist! why? for embedding autoplay. guess you guys didn’t get that ’06 myspace memo, huh?
Uhh, as we explained…
Or feel to not read us, you asshat.
I really wish Metric would disappear. Emily’s BSS contributions are great (for the most part), her solo work is decent, but that band is terrible.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard Sloan described as “hard-rock.”
Now, there’s got to be a scene in need of an Eric’s Trip or Elevator song.
Uhh, hello? listen to the tailor-made radio-ready rock hits from the two albums that i’m too lazy to google. hard rock for sure. course they’re more than that, but haven’t really been so in years. I kinda gave up after a while and i adored them.
sloan is hard rock?
whoops. someone beat me to it.
i love this blog and i know you (the writer) kind of feels the same way, but i would just like to say i’m pretty over all the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World updates.
Yeah, i hear that. It’s a lot. What can we say, we read the books and we loved them.
But also, i’m the only one breaking news on the soundtrack and that’s essentially what the gig is…