The Dears’ Murray Lightburn told My Poproks in 2008 that they “didn’t give a crap about ‘indie’” or “sh*t bins at the record shop.” The band’s disregard for being one of the cool kids has kept their music painfully honest through the years, and is by far their most endearing quality.
The Montreal band recently visited [...]

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There are not many bands like The Dears. Despite the fact that they have been through a plethora of line-up changes and have re-emerged as a husband and wife duo (founding member Murray Lightburn and wife Natalia Yanchak), The Dears have stayed true to the simplest of ideas. They have yet to subscribe to any [...]

While Murray Lightburn is theoretically the only member of this band, I’ll refer to them as a band none-the-less. The Dears, a Canadian indie outfit with 3 amazing albums under their belt, are set to release the follow-up to 2006’s Gang of Losers. Missiles, which is due October 20 on Dangerbird Records, is (from what [...]