The Dears have collaborated again with animator Sinbad Richardson for their new video “Here’s to the Death of All the Romance,” which is from the Montreal band’s new album, Times Infinity Vol. 1. Like ...

The Dears’ frontman, Murray Lightburn, is talking about his sixth studio album, September 25’s Times Infinity Volume One, and he’s just taken back everything he just said about it. Specifically, he ...

Every year a wide swath of the nation’s rock critics singles out one up-and-coming band as the greatest thing since reverb. Last year that distinction fell to a Montreal troupe coyly named the Dears.

The Dears‘ new album Times Infinity Vol. 1 is out next week (9/25) and the Montreal band recently released a video for single “Whose Side Are You On?” Directed and animated by Sinbad Richardson, it ...

There’s a moment, midstream through “1998,” where you can hear Murray Lightburn’s heartbeat. “This is being alive,” The Dears’ frontman sings over and over on the central track on Times Infinity ...

For a group that call themselves the Dears, they don't seem too attached. The moody Montreal band release their fourth album on October 20, and while frontman Murray Lightburn is still in charge, two ...

After 25 years of making music, The Dears know how to adapt to an altered landscape. Husband and wife Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchek, the core duo of the Montreal, Canada rock band, have ...

Missiles, as presented by The Dears, is a fifty-eight minute opus meant to be listened to entirely at once. Like any other avid enthusiast of the let's look at more pictures and read less words ...

It may come as a surprise to some, others won't believe it at all, but the Dears don't want to be rock stars. Mainstream affiliations, miles of newsprint and obnoxious aviator shades may suggest ...

Montréal quintet The Dears, led by husband & wife duo Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak, have released "I Know What You're Thinking And It's Awful," the third single from their upcoming album ...

Some interviewees reveal nothing of themselves. Not so Murray Lightburn, linchpin of Canadian sextet The Dears. "I have an enormous fear of abandonment," he says, "this thing of wanting to hold on to ...

Montreal group the Dears fits squarely in the current crop of Canadian acts -- bands that, like the breakthrough band Arcade Fire, command the stage with intensity while reaching past pop convention ...