When she’s in the van with the Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene, Ariel Engle doesn’t keep track of days of the week anymore. “Well, there’s no difference between a Saturday or a Monday or a Tuesday,” Engle said in a recent phone call from the road with…

After a seven-year hiatus, Broken Social Scene is back with new album Hug of Thunder. The Canadian collective is as famous for their sprawling, emotional, baroque-pop as their ability to swell from 10 to 19 members onstage, at any given show. These days, they continue to grow concomitantly off-stage as well. Broken…