In what is almost a perfect example of how preposer hype works, the media is helping preposer.com prove its worth. Now, of course, Feist and Broken Social Scene were hardly underground when I wrote last week’s post, but this week their exposure increased ten-fold with a feature article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Collective forms, hype surrounds, scene created, scene exposed.

In related news, I saw Stars (also on Arts & Crafts) this past weekend, at Webster Hall in New York. Here’s the breakdown:

• Stars: 83%
  • Set Yourself on Fire: 94%
  • Heart: 89%
  • Nightsongs: 72%
• Webster Hall:
  • Ambience: 100%
  • Location: 1% (I got a parking ticket… bummer)
  • Ticket prices: 90%
• Stars @ Webster Hall, 2.25.06:
  • Opening band: Magnet: 79%
  • Sound: 91%
  • Crowd: 69%
  • Setlist: 90%

Stars played a great set, in what was, IMHO the perfect venue for them. Not too big, but enough to rock out. They’re lighting design was perfect: an LED-Star backdrop on the back wall, and four lamps spread evenly on the stage that were cued to the music. Torquil is, to quote the British fellow in front of me on the way out, “a bit much,” but it was a thoroughly entertaining show, even though they did nothing to alleviate their guilty pleasure status in my mind, which made it kind of awkward. Ok, enough free advertising for Arts & Crafts…

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