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 ...

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 ...

Rare is the band hard to pin down in the 21st century, but The Dears is that rarity. Openly romantic and symphonic yet destabilizing and hypnotic, the Montreal-based brainchild of spouses Murray ...

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 ...

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.

Montréal’s The Dears are releasing a new album, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!, this Friday on Next Door. Now they have shared its latest single, “Doom Pays,” via a music ...

"The Dears don't have throwaway tracks," insists longtime keyboardist Natalia Yanchak. "We literally throw those tracks away." Acknowledging her "arrogant" outlook, she says that the Dears' songs are ...

Murray Lightburn, the self-styled "writer and director" of the cultish Canadian darlings The Dears, does not look like a man upon whose shoulders the worries of the world rest lightly. On stage he's a ...

From Logan’s Run to Star Trek and onward to dystopian videos from his own band The Dears, Murray Lightburn is a sci-fi freak with a neuromantic streak. And while his postmodern soul and blues may skew ...

You can’t help but feel for The Dears. Thirteen years into their career and the Montreal band has already been eclipsed by compatriots Arcade Fire and Feist to the kind of degree that they’re unlikely ...