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 [...]

For a time, I used to work at a record store. We would dig through crates and throw on anything that looked interesting. We’d throw anything good onto one of the 3 main spools of CD’s…or, if it was really good, it would become a permanent fixture on the 5 disc CD changer. The Dears’ [...]

The Dears Missiles
You already know how I feel about this record, also stay tuned for an exclusive interview with the band on My Poproks.
Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna
New York City dance hip hop indie techno mess, the debut album on Social Registry
Hank Williams III Damn Right, Rebel Proud
Williams #3, album #6
Prodigy Product of the 80’s
Modd [...]

The latest album from The Dears may have had some weak spots, but this is not one of them. I’m glad they decided to make a video for this. “Money Babies,” album highlight and one of my favorite tracks of 2008 set to a world divided; one of beauty and hope and the other of [...]

6.5
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 [...]