'It's my curse.'ĭrew – who sports a beard, has a herniated disc in his back and is 40 – is also temperamental, depressive, funny and at the centre of attention. 'I don't buy neighbourhoods, I build them,' says the BSS member, but also the co-founder of Arts & Crafts, the band's label. Walking around the area with Drew in April, he laments not investing in real estate. It's the group that made Toronto sexy while Drake was still a student at

In 2014, when Vogue magazine calls Toronto's West Queen West the world's second-coolest neighbourhood, some of that is because it's where Broken Social Scene partied in 1994. Because all of the BSS members make their own music – often together – and while some break out and some falter, the band is less like SNL and more like NBC, the network umbrella they all live under. Saturday Night Live, its most popular members having departed to make their own solo stabs at fame. The band, Broken Social Scene, hasn't been together onstage with new music in seven years and there's a double-album worth of reasons why. 'Everyone has their own OCD ways of how they need to be treated, but these are the moments that get us together onstage.' 'I'm sitting there with all the kids, and no one knows who we are, no one cares, and I'm thinking: 'This is what we do,'' Drew says. There he is, sitting in the park with his friends, including musicians Leslie Feist, James Shaw and Emily Haines, drinking wine. One night in May, on the west side of Toronto, Kevin Drew is reminded of a feeling his band had back in 2002.

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