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...bands have managed to storm the independent music world as quickly as Broken Social Scene. The Toronto-based collective had at least ten regular members at the last count, when they rose from the forests of Canada to total relevance. They broke onto the scene with their enormously popular and critically acclaimed 2002 album You Forgot It In People, an album that was hyped to such an extent (notably by rising hipster gatekeeper website Pitchforkmedia.com) that it couldn’t help but fail to live up to expectations...
...spastic “KC Accidental” lent some power to the beginning of their set, with its start/stop guitar and manic drum breaks reminding the crowd why they had waited for several hours in sauna-like conditions to hear Broken Social Scene. The band proved that they had truly arrived with “Stars and Sons,” a plodding song accentuated by periodic bouts of clapping that got a room of hipper-than-thou indie types involved in some fashion of audience participation, if not actual dancing...
...compatriots are going to lead the charge for the Canadians, they need to focus on tightening up their potentially devastating lightning offensive, otherwise their blitzkrieg push will collapse under its own weight, as it nearly did during parts of this show. A lot is riding on the next Broken Social Scene album, perhaps even the fate of nations, but if these plucky Canadians are to meet the hopes they’ve created, they have a tough battle ahead...
...learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news. At breakfast, she couldn’t refrain her joy. The resulting fracas ended in a torn cashmere Polo sweater, broken nails and an emergency trip to Gino for new highlights...
After welcoming everybody to Open Mic Night, and warning that the only microphone is broken, BGLTSA co-chairs Stephanie M. Skier ’05 and M.C.D. Barusch ’06 introduce the evening’s first act, a self-written song played on the guitar. The refrain is, “Let me stay one more night in your arms/Let me stayayayayayayay one more night in your arms.” Next, a guy tells a “true story” about his first time. It was with a male model in Lebanon, who went...