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  Hear Stars and Chilly Gonzales' Brooding 'Nothing Good Comes to Those Who Wait'

  May 24, 2013 – The spirit of Canadian indie label Arts & Crafts was perhaps best exempified in its flagship band, Broken Social Scene, an ever-growing, ever-evolving, ever-jamming mass of friends. …
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  How Stars Learned to Set Themselves on Fire Again

  September 7, 2012 – New album be damned, Amy Millan wanted to enjoy her summer. The Stars' frontwoman, who provides the high, honeyed half of the group's boy-girl vocals, managed to persuade her bandmates to push the release of their sixth LP The North from May to September 4 so she could spend time sunning herself poolside. "We're a fall band," she says from her Montreal home while her 17-month-old daughter cried in the background. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Crypts, More!

  August 30, 2012 – Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now, even though they aren't out yet. You don't want to be caught at the proverbial water cooler trying to talk about 2 Chainz or Swans, do you? Those albums are so (literally) yesterday. Have fun clicking through the 103 songs we've amassed below. 1) Cat Power, Sun, out September 4 on Matador. …
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  Stars Unveil New LP With Synth-Swoony 'The Theory of Relativity'

  June 21, 2012 – Now, you know damn well we're not rocket scientists, but as we understand it, the one constant in Albert Einstein's theories of relativity is the speed of light. That's an appropriately grand concept to hold in mind as you approach "The Theory of Relativity," a sparkling, synth-bedecked indie rocker from Stars' upcoming album The North. …
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  Hear Ben Gibbard's Death Cabby Cover of Stars' 'Set Yourself on Fire'

  June 15, 2012 – Ben Gibbard is giving us the impression that when he isn't running marathons these days, he's spending his off time while on tour with his band digging into his Pro Tools archives. Today, he tweet-shared a rough demo he threw together for Stars' 2007 cover record Do You Trust Your Friends?, of "Set Yourself on Fire," the title track on the band's 2004 LP. …
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  Eminem's New Video, Ja Rule to Jail + More

  June 9, 2011 – Eminem and Royce da 5'9" are teaming up for the first time in ten years for the new Bad Meets Evil album Hell: The Sequel, out June 13. The duo have dropped an insane video for single "Fast Lane," which gets beefed up with all sorts of crazy animated effects. Check it out. Play Ja Rule has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. …
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• Stars, 'The Five Ghosts' (Vagrant)

  June 9, 2010 – On The Five Ghosts' winsomely tragic "Fixed," Amy Millan coos about the moment a lover's "touch turns into fisticuffs," and it's impossible to believe she's singing about violence as anything other than a metaphor. That's a problem when the band's entire approach is treating the romantic entanglements of earnest bobos as matters of terminal importance. …
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  Broken Social Scene Announce New Album

  February 1, 2010 – After a five-year wait, Toronto's indie rock supa-dupa-group Broken Social Scene will return May 4 with a new yet-to-be-titled album. The release features the six core members behind the past two BSS records, including founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, plus regular contributors like Leslie Feist, Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, Jason Collett, Stars' Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, and experimental eight-piece orchestral group …
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  Live Review: Mars Volta, Vampire Weekend, and More from Austin City Limits

  September 29, 2008 – Austin City Limits hit the Lone Star State with a vengeance this weekend, and SPIN.com tapped the Hush Sound's Greta Salpeter to act as our eyes and ears on the festival grounds. …
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  Unplugged at Outside Lands '08: Stars' Torquil Campbell

  August 26, 2008 – Whether delivering coy political messages on stage or chatting casually backstage, Stars singer Torquil Campbell is always an engaging persona. And at Outside Lands he went a step further, treating SPIN.com to an intimate acoustic performance. Campbell chose to play "A Place to Hide Away," a tune by Robert Forster, most famously of Australian indie influencers the Go-Betweens. …
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