School of Rock alum Lex Kolody, a former AllStar from the Littleton school, talks about how his music director at School of Rock played an instrumental role in his recovery from an accident that claimed two of his fingers.

Every year, scores of young bands try their hardest to get a label deal that might provide a shot at stardom. For Geese, a Brooklyn-based rock group of five wiry teenage friends, nothing could have been further from their minds. “The band was going to end when we graduated high school,” the guitarist Gus Green said. “None of us thought anything would happen.”