Broken Social Scene

First Bank & Burial Beer Co. Present:

Broken Social Scene

Sun, August 2nd 2026

Forestry Camp - 10 Shady Oak Drive - Asheville, NC 28801

Doors 5PM / Show 6PM

This event is outdoors and rain or shine.

For many bands, there are long stretches when nothing seems to happen, at least from the outside. Years pass, the culture shifts, and the audience waits for a signal, unsure whether the silence marks exhaustion, reinvention, or simply life happening offstage. Broken Social Scene has always maintained a distinct release cadence: neither a band of relentless abundance (like the Beatles or Stones in their heyday), nor of contemporary monastic scarcity (like My Bloody Valentine or D'Angelo). They surface when the conditions are right, and fall quiet when they aren't. Yet their silence never feels like absence - it feels like building pressure, as if the next surge of sound is assembling itself offstage, gathering mass, waiting for the right moment to break.

Thus, their new album, Remember the Humans, is truly a release. And, the timing feels uncannily right. We live in an era that is overstimulated, and yet simultaneously hollowed out; deeply connected, but marked by a profound sense of dislocation. The album’s title is like a quiet alarm: a reminder not to forget the fragile, analog beings at the center of all the noise.

BSS's new songs enact this tension rather than simply describing it. Their arrangements are dense and enveloping - a lattice of horns, guitars, voices, and electronics - yet melody always remains sovereign, refusing to be swallowed by the sheer sound. When the music drifts towards abstraction, a grounding bass line arrives to anchor the listener, reminding us always that there are human hands on the controls and that, however artful, this is still rock and roll.