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Stars In Session In WFUV's Studio A

Posted 4-4-13 by
Tags: Stars

After over a decade together, Stars continue to sing about relationships in ways few other bands can. With Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan sharing vocals, the band portrays characters in various stages of falling in and out of love, but death often comes into play amid the pop song settings as well. Watch Stars perform a few songs from the band's new album, The North, and listen to Millan and Campbell's conversation with Eric Holland in the WFUV archives.

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Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars And More Celebrate Arts & Crafts Anniversary

Posted 2-27-13 by
Tags: Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars

The scrappy and influential Canadian indie record label Arts & Crafts will mark its tenth anniversary this spring with a festival and a retrospective double album that will include Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Zeus and many more. Arts & Crafts 2003-2013 is due out on April 16 and Toronto's A&C Field Trip festival, featuring those bands and more, will take place in June.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending October 7

Posted 10-2-12 by
Tags: Alt-J, Bob Mould, Cat Power, Dinosaur Jr., Divine Fits, Grizzly Bear, Matt and Kim, Stars, Two Door Cinema Club, Yeasayer

 Matt and Kim storm onto the TAS Top 20 with Lightning while Divine Fits don't need a tantrum to get to No. 1 on the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending September 30

Posted 9-25-12 by
Tags: Alt-J, Bob Mould, Cat Power, Dinosaur Jr., Divine Fits, Grizzly Bear, Stars, The Mountain Goats, The xx, Two Door Cinema Club, Yeasayer

The Mountain Goats gambol onto the TAS Top 20 while Grizzly Bear still roams the peak of this week's album chart.

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First Listen: Stars, 'The North'

Posted 8-30-12 by
Tags: Stars

The band's sixth album rewards exploration with moments that alternately swoon, seethe, swing and paralyze. Any Stars fan should find something to like here, as the group swings from springy pop-rock to gorgeous balladry to grandiose mission statements. Listen to the new album here via WFUV and NPR Music.

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Stars Announce New Album In September, Stream And Free Download Of First Single

Posted 6-21-12 by
Tags: Stars

The pretty, barbed exchanges between Stars' Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan will return later this summer as the Montreal band releases its next album, The North, on September 4 via ATO Records. Even better, the first prescient (and synth-splashed) song from the upcoming album, called "The Theory of Relativity," is being offered via free download on the band's own website, if you surrender your email address.

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TAS Takes On Valentine's Day With Not-So-Silly Love Songs

Posted 2-14-12 by
Tags: Aretha Franklin, Black Sabbath, Bon Iver, Depeche Mode, Gruff Rhys, James Blake, Jeff Buckley, Kathleen Edwards, Nick Cave, Paul Weller, Stars, The Cure, Van Morrison

Ah, Valentine's Day. A time of crushes, Cupids, chocolate and champagne. Or a depressing night spent with a dopey Katherine Heigl rom-com while polishing off a pint of Chunky Monkey. No matter what your take on the loveliest - or most loveless - of days, The Alternate Side staff has pulled together some of our favorite songs that we feel express the best and worst of romance.

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TAS In Session: Flashback 2010 (Part Two)

Posted 12-27-10 by
Tags: Blitzen Trapper, El Guincho, Field Music, Fyfe Dangerfield, Stars, Stornoway, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Walkmen

Last week we gave you the first part of TAS In Session: Flashback 2010,  looking back at many of bands and musicians who passed through Studio A over the past year and highlighting some of the songs played in live performance. We also updated you on what these artists have planned for 2011, from tours to new recordings to free downloads you can find this very minute on their websites. This week, the promised Part Two of our reminiscence and we've rounded up another collection of 2010's  live performances from Stornoway, The Walkmen, Field Music, The Morning Benders, El Guincho, The Tallest Man on Earth, Stars, Lost in the Trees, K-os and many more.

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TAS In Session: Stars

Posted 7-19-10 by , Kara Manning
Tags: Stars

Montréal's heartbreak kids, Stars, are marking their tenth anniversary and have just released their fifth album, The Five Ghosts. The quintet (yes, they're fascinated by the number 5) have also become the proud owners of their very own label, Soft Revolution Records. The band, which is part of the extended Broken Social Scene family, dropped by Studio A not long ago to chat with WFUV's Rita Houston and they performed three songs from their new album, including "I Died So I Could Haunt You" and "Dead Hearts," plus one old favorite, "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead." Notice a theme?

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Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup: Soundgarden, Arcade Fire, Green Day, The Strokes, Lady Gaga And Phoenix

Posted 4-6-10 by
Tags: 2ManyDJs, AFI, Arcade Fire, Blitzen Trapper, Chromeo, Cut Copy, Cypress Hill, Deer Tick, Devo, Digitalism, Dirty Projectors, Empire of the Sun, Erykah Badu, F**k Buttons, Felix Da Housecat, Freelance Whales, Frightened Rabbit, Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Health, Hockey, Hot Chip, Jimmy Cliff, Kaskade, Lady Gaga, Matt & Kim, Mavis Staples, Metric, MGMT, Minus he Bear, Mumford & Sons, MUTEMATH, Phoenix, Raphael Saadiq, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Spoon, Stars, The Antlers, The Big Pink, The Black Keys, The Cribs, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers, The Strokes, The Temper Trap, The xx, Tiga, Wild Beasts, Wolfmother, X Japan, Yeasayer

The folks behind the Lollapalooza festival have revealed the event's 2010 lineup with the reunited Soundgarden, Broadway's Green Day, Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, Phoenix and The Strokes as headliners. Other bands and artists include MGMT, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, Devo, The National and the recently arrested Erykah Badu. The festival takes place August 6-8 in Chicago

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