An Arts And Crafts Update

Here at H.A.D., we're pretty much whores for anything that comes our way from the Arts and Crafts camp. Things being what they are, here are a couple of news bites from our friends in Canada:

• P4TV has the debut of a new Kevin Drew video for "Safety Bricks", off of the first Broken Social Scene Presents... disc. Check the stream below.
  
• The second disc in the series has apparently been leaked prior to its July 22nd street date, in unmastered form. This has led Brendan Canning to offer it up for sale in digital form.
• While reading about item 2, we noticed that Feist and Constantines covered the classic "Islands In The Stream". Check it out below, go pay for it if you like it.

This summer Broken Social Scene will be at the Outside Lands Festival, while Feist will be headlining at the Greek Theaterin Berkeley.

mp3: Constantines and Feist - Islands In The Stream (Yousendit, click through)

New Broken Social Scene On Tap For July

From the looks of things, when BSS play the Outside Lands Festival, they'll be doing so with a slew of new material, and a lot more front-man time for Brendan Canning. On July 22nd, the band is releasing the next in the "Broken Social Scene Presents..." series with Brendan Canning's Something For Everyone... For those of you not keeping track, the first record in the series was Kevin Drew's Spirit If...., which was one of our favorite records of last year. Since Drew and Canning tend to be the lead voices for the "regular" BSS albums, this should provide a nice companion piece to that release, and if the first mp3 is any indication, it's going to be a good one.

mp3: Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning - Hit The Wall