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Kevin Drew : biography

September 9, 1976 –

Kevin Drew (born September 9, 1976) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who, together with Brendan Canning, founded the expansive Toronto baroque-pop collective Broken Social Scene.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/magazine/26toronto.html He was also part of the lesser-known KC Accidental, which consisted of Drew and Charles Spearin, another current member of Broken Social Scene.

Drew has shared in the direction of Broken Social Scene videos under the name Experimental Parachute Movement. In 2008 he wrote and directed a short film called "The Water," inspired by and starring his bandmate and former girlfriend Leslie Feist.http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/811-kevin-drew-and-feist-the-water In 2009, Drew contributed to the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Drew grew up in west Toronto and attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts, along with Metric’s Emily Haines,Berman, Stuart. This Book is Broken. 2009. Stars’ Amy Millan and novelist Ibi Kaslik,http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/356819 where he, Amy and Emily studied drama. He was married to Jo-ann Goldsmith, a social worker and an occasional trumpet player in BSS.

On January 15, 2013 Drew announced in an interview that he has began working on a new album with The Archies songwriter, Andy Kim.

Discography

Solo

  • Spirit If… (2007)
  • "Love Vs. Porn" from Dark Was the Night (2009)
  • We Got Time (2012) by Bob Wiseman for the compilation album Have Not Been The Same.

Broken Social Scene

  • Feel Good Lost (2001)
  • You Forgot It in People (2002)
  • Bee Hives (2004)
  • Broken Social Scene (2005)
  • Forgiveness Rock Record (2010)

KC Accidental

  • Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub – (1998)
  • Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills – (2000)

Videography

Experimental Parachute Movement

  • Apostle of Hustle
    • Cheap Like Sebastian
  • Broken Social Scene
    • Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
    • Almost Crimes (with Chris Mills)
    • Cause=Time
    • Fire Eye’d Boy
  • Constantines
    • Our Age 2009
  • Stars
    • Your Ex-Lover is Dead
    • Bitches in Tokyo
  • Still Life Still
    • Pastel
  • The Most Serene Republic
    • Content Was Always My Favourite Colour
  • The Water (2009) Starring Cillian Murphy, David Fox & Feist