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Stars announce new album The North; premiere first track The Theory Of Relativity

The criminally under-rated Montreal Indie-Rock band Stars have announced a release date for their forthcoming 6th studio album. The North will be released on September 4. It will be their first since 2010, when The Five Ghosts was nominated for Canada’s Polaris Music Prize.

The band debuted the lead track, The Theory Of Relativity today; a fresh burst of Electropop offsetting the always infectious boy/girl vocals of Torquil Campbell and Amy Milan.
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Posted on June 21, 2012 in Music News, New Release | Tagged Stars |

Please Please Please - A Tribute To The Smiths

Under The Covers: Please Please Please tribute to The Smiths

It’s becoming pretty standard for bands to cover The Smiths these days. Some covers are completely unnecessary, and some are very memorable such as Dream Acadamy’s take on Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want from Ferris Beuler and Love Spit Love’s version of How Soon Is Now. Continuing on with the tradition, American Laundromat Records has just put out a compilation of 20 indie artists taking on their favorite song from The Smiths.

This album features contributions from several of Strangeways favorite artists.
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Posted on December 22, 2011 in New Release, Under The Covers | Tagged Anna-Lynn Williams, Smiths, Stars, Tanya Donelly, Trespassers William |

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