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JANE SMITH
LOST IN SUBURBIA
A SHORT STORY ON LUST, BOREDOM AND PSYCHADELIC JOURNEYS.
I recently saw Dragonette play the one and only American date of their recent tour to a mid-sized yet fanatic crowd at NYC’s Canal Room. I took a friend who had never seen the band perform live before with me to the event, and we ended up drunkenly dancing and fist pumping to every chorus. When the show was over, my friend turned to me and said, “It’s so weird to hear music like that played in a club. It sounds like we should be in a huge arena or something.” He was totally right, for a minute there it felt like Dragonette’s furious pop hooks were emanating from the gigantic PA at Madison Square Garden, not the tiny speakers at the Canal Room. by Jacob Fabricius