PANORAMA NYC VIDEO OF THE DAY: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

Who: Broken Social Scene
What: Panorama festival
Where: Randall’s Island Park, the Pavilion
When: Friday, July 22, $125, 5:30
Why: The joyous indie Canadian musical collective known as Broken Social Scene, built by and around Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, has consisted of a varying panoply of mainly Toronto-based talent with up to nineteen members onstage at times playing an eclectic array of instruments and featuring an ever-changing roster of female singers on tour. But after three well-received albums in four years (2001-05) and one more in 2010, BSS hasn’t released a new record, and it hasn’t performed live in the U.S. since 2011. (The band played a memorable headlining set at the Siren Festival in Coney Island back in 2008.) All that changed last week when the band appeared at a small show at Chicago’s Metro, followed by a full-on concert at the Pitchfork Festival. Exactly one week later they repeat the feat in New York with a small, sold-out Thursday night show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and a subsequent Friday festival appearance on the Pavilion stage at the Panorama art, music, food, and technology festival, with such other performers as fka Twigs, Silversun Pickups, Alabama Shakes, Here We Go Magic, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, White Lung, and Arcade Fire. You can find the full schedule and set times for all three days here.