Breakthrough Debut and Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts: His band recently released their new album, "Lo-Fantasy," a dance-inducing, synth-injected rock 'n' roll trip -- and people still care 14 years after his breakthrough debut, "Brother Down." He's a dad now, to three, but he's always been a pragmatic and aware guy, not a self-indulgent musician living in a bubble, according to Huffington Post. "Yeah, there are some people right now with super-shitty jobs, not sitting on a purple couch. We were in New York yesterday and I was watching this guy hacking ice with a shovel. Like fuck. He's there on this windy day and I'm going, 'Ugh! Gotta go to sound check,'" he laughs and Sam Roberts knows life is good. "Time is pretty much the hardest thing to come by these days, but that's for everybody -- not just rock and rollers," says Roberts, sitting on a giant purple couch in a main-floor room of media giant Corus Entertainment in Toronto, where he has been doing a string of interviews. "That's the thing when you do interviews, you just can't complain. Just don't complain. Don't complain about anything. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.