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	SPIN.com: The Dears Gang of Losers (Arts & Crafts)
		It's true: Montreal's the Dears are fronted by a fl man who sounds exactly like Blur/Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn crooning the Smiths' songbook -- an ear-turning reversal of the usual white appropriation of African American and Jamaican styles.
		It also argues convincingly that the Dears have transcended their initial status as secondhand Brit-poppers, as surely as Blur left behind those nagging Oasis comparisons.
		Sonically raw but melodically rich, the Dears confront the surface contradictions in their musical identity with a defiance that's no longer just skin deep.
	www.spin.com /reviews/magazine/2006/09/0610_dears (289 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Listings - Artists - The Dears
		The Dears have been together for some time now, but they gained a great deal of attention following their performance at 2004's South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, which culminated in the band appearing on a compilation CD given away with trade paper Music Week.
		The Dears considered re-recording the entire thing - starting again where they had nine months before - but that would have meant the end of The Dears, having already lost two members earlier that year.
		The Dears were squeezed into the already-booked studio in overnight sessions and for eight days straight, from midnight until early afternoon, The Dears mixed their record.
	www.drownedinsound.com /bands/6612 (1166 words)

	DearS (TV) - Anime News Network
		The aliens, known as DearS, are deciding to take permanent residence on earth.
		This person, Ren, is one of the DearS, and after being saved by Takeya she chooses him as her master.
		Takeya, who doesn't know about the master-slave relationship of DearS, tries to learn Ren the normal lifestyle of the people on earth, though he constantly fears that Ren is an evil alien who's trying to brainwash him.
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4080 (714 words)

	Pollstar -- The Concert Hotwire
		Canadian indie popsters The Dears will support their recent release with a round of U.S. club dates in January.
		The band, which is fronted by Murray Lightburn with an evolving cast of support musicians, released its third album, Gang Of Losers, this fall.
		The Dears have toured with The Soundtrack Of Our Lives and wrapped a headlining U.S. tour in early December.
	www.pollstar.com /news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=7545 (141 words)

	NPR Music: Evan Dando and The Dears in Concert
		Dando performs a solo set from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia along with an appearance by the Canadian pop-rock band The Dears.
		His new incarnation of The Lemonheads, which includes the rhythm section from California punk band The Descendents, picks up where he left off, trafficking in the sly, winsome pop that made Dando omnipresent 15 years ago.
		The Dears' members play a distinct brand of indie-pop music that sounds simultaneously easy-going and groundbreaking.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6160649 (337 words)

	Most recent The Dears Posts - All - MP3s, Downloads, Music Videos, Album Discography & Reviews - MOG (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dears are a Canadian indie rock band.
		It’s been way too long since I’ve last mogged, but preparing applications for post-graduate study is a lot of work and unfortunately mog is not the priority I’d like it to be.
		I haven’t seen the Dears since they came through Edmonton in 2003, so this was quite a treat.
	mog.com /music/The_Dears (2323 words)

	The Soundtrack of Our Lives + The Dears + American Minor - PopMatters Concert Review
		For The Dears, the conceptualization of live songs proves too wandering, stretched too thin.
		All hope is not lost for The Dears; bright things can faintly be seen shimmering on the horizon if they can train their progressive nature, not simply allow it to take over the stage.
		The Dears' set is not a horrible experience.
	popmatters.com /music/concerts/s/soundtrack-of-our-lives-050328.shtml (1257 words)

	The Dears: Gang Of Losers (2006): Reviews
		The Dears stamp enough of their own personality to make this one of the best and most vital alternative US albums of 2006.
		The Dears sound like a band who have finessed their vision and are ready, finally, to take on the world.
		The Dears are now less idiosyncratic but have successfully made the kind of straightforwardly satisfying album that you'd expect from a band on their second decade.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/dears/gangoflosers (964 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Music - The Dears
		It's been a while since The Dears and their lead singer have been on tour, but the blur of their latest string of overseas performances has clearly begun to take its toll.
		Lightburn tells the story of a Netherlands passerby who was shocked that The Dears' lead singer and his wife would be walking themselves home from their own gig in plain sight.
		Shit, they're even from Montreal, a city which I suspect is spiking their municipal water supply with dissolved Belle and Sebastian tapes based on the disproportionate number of romantic orchestral pop bands the city is churning out.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDArticle=10773&iIDReaction=0&iIDGroupe=0&iIDCritique=0&iIDSectionCalendrier=0&iIDSpectacleFilm=0&iIDRepresentation=0 (632 words)

	Denver - Music - The Dears - westword.com
		The Arcade Fire has received plenty of acclaim in Canada as well as south of the border, and the Dears are equally notable: an ambitious pop combo with a penchant for big melodies, dramatic juxtapositions and pungent lyrics.
		While this three-song suite is persistently doomy and apocalyptic (the disc concludes with the cheerily titled "No Hope Before Destruction"), Lightburn infuses the piece with a palpable grandeur that lifts its downbeat theme to impressive heights.
		The Dears, who are joined at the Lounge by buzz bands Marjorie Fair and the Shout Out Louds, make Montreal seem cool in more ways than one.
	www.westword.com /Issues/2005-05-26/music/nowhearthis6.html (341 words)

	The Dears Biography
		At that time, The Dears were like an unconfirmed rumour of ardour; they were full of possibility, and propelled by passion, alienation, and alcohol.
		By 2001 The Dears ceased to be a rumour; they were real and dark -- almost too real and too dark for a Canadian music scene that banked on fluffy love songs and slick indie hits.
		Gang of Losers is a classic Dears album in terms of its complex musical and thematic range, veering from instant pop hits to oppressive ballads to lullaby show tunes.
	www.maplemusic.com /artists/dee/bio.asp (977 words)

	Detroit Research Studies, Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study, US EPA
		The overarching goal of these related efforts are to use community, residential indoor, residential outdoor, and possibly even personal exposure monitoring data to assess the impact of ambient-based PM and air toxic sources upon human populations and the neighborhoods in which they live.
		The DEARS will collect ambient, personal, residential indoor and residential outdoor data for a total of 120 residents of Wayne County, Michigan over a 3-year period.
		The DCHS will use exposure modeling data for PM and select criteria pollutant gases from the DEARS as well as school-based exposure monitoring to assess the impact of ambient-based pollutants upon the health status of 4th and 5th grade students in the Detroit and Dearborn areas.
	www.epa.gov /dears/studies.htm (923 words)

	The Electric Newspaper // where. music. matters.
		There is something about the Dears’ Gang of Losers that hints that this Canadian sextet is about to break through to a whole new level.
		As such, frontman Murray Lightburn’s warm and engaging voice is given a greater focus, while positive pop melodies abound on the likes of “Ticket to Immortality”, “Hate Then Love” and “Bandwagoneers”, with the aforementioned number featuring the repeated refrain “The world is really going to love you”.
		That’s why it’s such a strong album; there’s an honesty in their approach, and the songs are outstanding as a result.
	www.glovebox.com.au /stories/gangoflosers.htm (354 words)

	The Dears News
		You can get a good idea of what Dears' frontman Murray Lightburn is all about just by listening to him describe the evolution of the song Ticket to Immortality.
		The Morning Call You can get a good idea of what Dears' frontman Murray Lightburn is all about just by listening to him describe the evolution of the song "Ticket to Immortality." The second track on The...
		Without even seeing a performance by The Dears it was easy to recognize the group in Montreal's haunts in the late nineties.
	www.topix.net /who/the-dears (673 words)

	The Dears : Nor The Dahlias: The Dears 1995-1998 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The Dears : Nor The Dahlias: The Dears 1995-1998
		While End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story was the Dears' debut as such, the group had existed in various guises for a number of years beforehand, as Murray Lightburn developed and pursued his particular vision (along with running into a number of false starts).
		All of those caveats in mind and acknowledging that this will be more of interest to Dears fans than Anglophiles in general -- and that the recording quality and mixes are sometimes bemusing -- Nor the Dahlias still definitely has its cozily obvious moments.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2671575,00.html (463 words)

	Popjournalism.ca - Review - The Dears, Gang of Losers
		Since the Dears' 2000 debut, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, critics and fans alike have filed the band under the "orchestral indie pop" genre, because the band has always relied on the use of stringed and brass instruments.
		Fortunately, the holdover sounds the Dears do retain from past records is emotive drama enhanced by Lightburn's soulful croon, which has matured from years of touring.
		While some might find the Dears a tad bit too dramatic for their taste, there's no doubt that with Gang of Losers, the Dears continue to build their reputation as being one of Canada's most exciting, and innovative groups.
	www.popjournalism.ca /pop/reviews/2006/00245thedears.shtml (272 words)

	betterPropaganda - free MP3 downloads The Dears
		If you want all the facts, then yes, the story of The Dears did begin in Montreal in 1995, spurred on by cigarettes, pints and too many nights of overanalyzing Smiths records.
		But even as the rest of the country began to take notice of the band's cinematic pop symphonettes, The Dears - featuring Lightburn, keyboardist Natalia Yanchak, bassist Martin Pelland and drummer George Donoso III - were already on a different program.
		The second Dears album promised to be a truly seismic event that, if not the stuff of pop-radio countdowns, would at least chart on the Richter Scale.
	betterpropaganda.com /artist_page.asp?id=660 (398 words)

	The Dears: No Cities Left: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dears, by and large, make tracks that would slide without much distinction onto any number of mid-90s albums, neither gumming up the works nor sounding particularly special.
		Only at their most innocuous do The Dears sound much like Gene, although the lyric sheets are indistinguishable-- more often, Lightburn's off on the semi-orchestral cabaret-pop trip that would appear to be his big agenda.
		If the Dears got as big Interpol, I'd actually be pleased to know so many kids were reliving both ends of my teenage years, not to mention creating a market for me to sell off some old records.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/16919/The_Dears_No_Cities_Left (548 words)

	SOUNDTHESIRENS.COM - Review :: The Dears - No Cities Left
		You could say that this album is, to use a phrase that is thrown around constantly, "highly anticipated." Rolling Stone said Montreal's The Dears are one of the new bands to watch.
		The Smiths heavily influence Lightburn, and the somewhat recent beatification of the Smiths and Morrissey could be one of the reasons for the Dears' buzz.
		However, the instrumental sections are probably the best parts on the album, especially on "Warm and Sunny Days." No one can say The Dears don't know how to play their instruments.
	www.soundthesirens.com /reviews/thedears-nocitiesleft.php (539 words)

	The Dears - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Montreal band the Dears pay tribute to the bygone glory days of early Smiths and '80s modern rock, maintaining the provocative charm of those velvety, dream pop recordings.
		The Dears If you want all the facts, then yes, the story of The Dears did begin in Montreal in 1995, spurred on by cigarettes, pints and too many nights of overanalyzing Smiths records.
		And it’s with that spirit you should approach The Dears’ NO CITIES LEFT, the greatest and grandest work from a band for whom “epic” seems too a cheap descriptor, the ultimate culmination of the band’s unhinged onstage catharsis and studio sophistication.
	music.download.com /thedears/3600-8580_32-100406424.html (676 words)

	The Dears : Gang of Losers - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		After the orchestral extravaganza of 2004's fantastic No Cities Left, the Dears didn't leave themselves much room on their next album to go even bigger, lusher, more orchestral.
		This isn't to say that Gang of Losers is just Murray Lightburn playing an acoustic guitar and crooning forlornly, but it does mean that the Dears seem to have traded in their strings and horns for more straightforward electric guitar and keyboard riffs.
		In fact, most of the songs are a lot more "standardly constructed," but done so in a way that keeps the band's dramatic Queen-meets-the Smiths aesthetic intact without overwhelming listeners with myriad undulations and structural dissections.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3710832,00.html (337 words)

	Amazon.com: No Cities Left: Music: The Dears (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Montreal's pop group The Dears are endlessly compared to Morrissey and Blur to the point it has become tiresome.
		The album has an overall dark feel that carries a certain level of anguish in Lightburn's storytelling, typically aided by atmospheres driven by his guitar, along with changes in tempo in most songs and the overpowering presence of mellotron-like sounding strings that accompany the band's work through most of the album.
		It is impossible to argue: with The Dears you are in for a very special musical treat.
	www.amazon.com /No-Cities-Left-Dears/dp/B0006213RQ (1480 words)

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	The Dears \| Biography \| MTV
		The Dears, a loose collective of Montreal-area musicians formed in 1995, are led by the charismatic Murray Lightburn.
		The Dears released their debut CD, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, on Grenadine Records in 2000.
		The next year Lightburn and longtime Dears keyboardist Natalia Yanchak were married, and in 2006 the band's Gang of Losers came out.
	www.mtv.com /music/artist/dears/bio.jhtml (229 words)

	YouTube - The Dears - 22 The Death Of All The Romance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		YouTube - The Dears - 22 The Death Of All The Romance
		The Dears are supporting a band im gunna see next week (Keane) and was wondering what their favored songs to play live were?
		The Dears - 22: The Death of All the Romance
	youtube.com /watch?v=Ty41BuLsc1A (228 words)

	EvilSponge: 7": Ticket To Immortality by The Dears
		The Dears tend to work well in this format, so it is worth picking up their singles.
		It's not awful, but i know that The Dears are capable of doing this sort of thing much better.
		So neither song really wows me. Combine this with the fact that there is no speed on the record (a fact which bothers me to no end), and i am left with a disappointing piece of vinyl.
	www.evilsponge.org /albums/Dears__TicketToImmortality.htm (260 words)

	Indieville: The Dears - Nor The Dahlias: The Dears 1995-1998 CD Review
		In their earlier years, the Dears made some really catchy pop music.
		Altogether, this is a superb collection of music from the Dears' early years.
		If you don't already know about the Dears, now's the time to learn.
	www.indieville.com /old/reviews/dears.htm (252 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Dears (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With The Rapture playing just four blocks away and competing for much of the same audience, The Dears still managed to pack in a large crowd of indie rock fans with good taste.
		The Dears sound great on record, but live they are amazing.
		Murray Lightburn's voice has got soul from decades past and that alone should (and did) captivate even the most jaded concert goer; but what really puts this band in the gold is the manic energy of guitarist Patrick Krief and drummer George Donoso III.
	www.ink19.com /issues/february2007/eventReviews/dears.html (445 words)

	Venus: The Dears
		This was epitomized by their ability to mix minimalist post-rock druthers along with an orchestral pop impetus and a sprawling array of moodiness helmed by their enamoring front man Murray Lightburn (who is pretty much the only full-time member of the band).
		It seems as if the Dears, back now with their most recent release Gang of Losers just can’t seem to put in that proverbial “e” for effort this time around.
		While “Fear Made the World Go ‘Round” showcases the Dears trademark melancholy deliverance, Lightburn, at this point, makes the album sound like it was recorded by Bloc Party had they become frequent and heavy users of Valium.
	venuszine.com /stories/music_reviews/3290.php (178 words)

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