Brendan Canning is a founding member of Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...

 and a veteran indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 performer who has been a member of various notable bands including By Divine Right

By Divine Right

By Divine Right is a Canadian indie rock band, led by guitarist and vocalist José Miguel Contreras.-History:The band was formed in 1989 by high school friends Contreras, drummer Mark Goldstein, bassist Liz Teear and guitarist Steve Berman. They put out a number of independent releases before...

, Blurtonia

Blurtonia

Blurtonia was a Canadian indie rock group, formed in May 1999 to play live shows in support of the well-received self-released debut Adventures in the Kingdom of Blurtonia, co-produced by Daryl Smith whose credits include Sloan, Tricky Woo, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.In addition to Adventures,...

, Valley of the Giants

Valley of the Giants (band)

Valley of the Giants is a Canadian post-rock supergroup formed in Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada, in early 2002. The group is composed of members from Broken Social Scene, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, Do Make Say Think, Shalabi Effect and Strawberry...

, Len

Len (band)

Len is a Canadian alternative rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They are best known as a one-hit wonder for their song "Steal My Sunshine" in 1999. The band consists of siblings Marc Costanzo and Sharon Costanzo .-Studio albums:...

, and hHead

HHead

hHead were a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band consisted of Noah Mintz, Brendan Canning and a succession of drummers. They were originally known as Head, but added the second h after discovering that another band was already recording as Head.The band's first album, Fireman, was...

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In July 2008 he released a solo album called Something for All of Us...

Something for All of Us...

Something for All of Us... is the debut solo album by Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning. The album is the second in a series entitled Broken Social Scene Presents:, with each album in the series being a particular member's solo efforts, assisted by fellow Broken Social Scene...

, the second release in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series. The first single from the album is titled "Hit the Wall" and was released on May 5, 2008. It is available for download on the Arts & Crafts website.

In 2009 Brendan Canning took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic

City Sonic

City Sonic is a documentary series about Toronto-based musicians and the places that influenced their music. The first five City Sonic films were previewed at Toronto's 2009 North by North East Music and Film Festival.-Films:...

. The series, which featured 20 Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 artists, had him talk about his ever-increasing connection to the Drake Hotel

Drake Hotel (Toronto)

The Drake Hotel on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada near Parkdale, was opened in 1890 as "Small's Hotel". At the time, the area was a major Canadian Pacific Railway hub near what was then one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the city....

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hHead

• Fireman
  Fireman (album)
  Fireman is the first album by Canadian alternative/indie rock band hHead released in 1992 .It was first released independently by hHead themselves, as a cassette and then released under Jam Entertainment Records. After hHead signed to IRS Records in 1994 to release Jerk, they also re-released the...
  
  (1992)
• Jerk
  Jerk (album)
  Jerk is the second album by Canadian alternative/indie rock band hHead, released in 1994. The prize money that hHead won from a CFNY-FM contest went towards paying the costs for making this album...
  
  (1994)
• Ozzy
  Ozzy (album)
  Ozzy is the third album by Canadian alternative/indie rock band hHead, released in 1996. It was recorded and released on Handsome Boy Records, after IRS Records closed down.- Track listing :#"Got" - 3:47#"Cage" - 3:30#"Apartment" - 3:31...
  
  (1996)

Broken Social Scene

• Feel Good Lost
  Feel Good Lost
  Feel Good Lost is the 2001 debut album by Broken Social Scene. It was written and recorded primarily by founding members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning...
  
  (2001)
• You Forgot It In People
  You Forgot It in People
  You Forgot It In People is a 2002 album by Broken Social Scene. It followed Feel Good Lost, and was the band's commercial breakthrough...
  
  (2002)
• Bee Hives (2003)
• Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene (album)
  Broken Social Scene is the third studio album by Broken Social Scene, released on October 4, 2005. The album was originally to be titled Windsurfing Nation....
  
  (2005)
• Forgiveness Rock Record
  Forgiveness Rock Record
  Forgiveness Rock Record is the fourth studio album by Canadian indie rock musical collective Broken Social Scene, released by the Arts & Crafts record label on May 4, 2010...
  
  (2010)

External links

• Official site
• Brendan Canning on Spookey Ruben's Dizzy Playground