Broken Social Scene is in the business of making memories

Broken Social Scene has spent decades creating music that is intense, chaotic, cathartic and deeply human.

And that continues on their first album in nine years, Remember the Humans. Today, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew talks about why coming together, as people, is so important:

“Friendship is the greatest protest that we do have right now, and I think it’s something that needs to be a bumper sticker for people to remember, as we’re moving forward in these times, because they are very, very tricky,” he says.

Drew also talks about the band’s friendship, with each other, as well as with the members of Stars and Metric, whose recent tour with Broken Social Scene brought up a lot of emotions for both the bands and the audience.

“We are in the memory-making business. That’s what we’re doing,” he says.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Will Loftus.  Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson. Our executive producer is Bruce Warren.