Preview: Broken Social Scene at Seaholm Power Plant [Tonight, Free]

With all the events, after-shows, parties, and spontaneous outdoor dance parties surrounding ACL weekend, you’d be forgiven for overlooking some of the festival’s incredible (official or not) ancillary events. This is not one of those events to overlook. If you only make it to one show outside of the festival this year, Rare Magazine and WOXY, Austin’s newest internet radio station (which is already endearing itself quite nicely to our community), have made a strong case for this being the one to hit. Of course, we’re referring to the rechristening of the decommissioned Seaholm Power Plant as a live music venue, with none other than the ensemble cast of Toronto’s Broken Social Scene shattering the bottle of champagne on the art-deco columns (figuratively for sure, literally, maybe).

Tonight’s show will be the first large-scale public event at the historic plant, the grounds of which are being transformed into a tract of mixed-use urban development. If you missed out on the RSVP and wristband drops, you’ll still be able to enter as a walk-up, but much like SXSW, wristband-wearers will have priority access. Broken Social Scene’s live show is an incredible thing to behold, and the chance to see them in the beautiful industrial confines of Seaholm has us beyond stoked—even more so since New Orleans’ Generationals and local boys The Corto Maltese have been added to the bill.

Broken Social Scene [Official] [MySpace]
Generationals [Official] [MySpace]
Corto Maltese [MySpace]