Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars Turn Nostalgia Into Reflection on Brooklyn Stage

The “All the Feelings Tour” stopped at Brooklyn Paramount Thursday night with a triple bill of Canadian indie mainstays who have, for decades, shared members, labels, and friendships. Stars, Broken Social Scene, and Metric didn’t treat the evening as a simple victory lap. Instead, the concert demonstrated how acts that helped define a era are choosing to handle the weight of collective memory.

Both Metric and Broken Social Scene have released albums this year — Romanticize the Dive and Remember the Humans, respectively — that engage directly with the past. The titles read like prompts: Should dive bars and late nights be romanticized? Can human connection be held onto amid digital noise? The questions aren’t rhetorical on record, and they weren’t onstage. Stars, opening with “Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It,” set a tone that threaded fondness with clear-eyed restraint.

The concert wasn’t about denying nostalgia but about meeting it on honest terms. For a tour built on decades-old ties — the three bands grew up together inside Arts & Crafts and Toronto-Montreal scenes — the setlist leaned on more than familiar singles. It drew lines from early output to current questions, from communal memory to present tense. At Brooklyn Paramount, that approach turned a potential exercise in looking backward into something that felt more like a conversation.