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The Stars Here

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down

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Member Since: 2/3/2005
Band Website: thestarshere.com
Band Members: buns, graeme, mark, paddy, patrick
Influences: Neil Young, Rheostatics, Band, Wilco, Ween, John Frusciante, Gram Parsons & Flying Burrito Brothers, Stones, Johnny Cash, Brant Bjork, QOTSA, Mark Lanegan, Will Oldham, Flaming Lips, Meters, Funkadelic, My Morning Jacket, Buddy Miles, Hellacopters, Paul MacLeod, Matt Mays, Shannon Lyon, Pink Floyd, Crazy Fucking Horse, George Carlin, Ethel's Lounge, Hawk Dawson, Toronto Blue Jays
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Record Label: Doormat Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Local Indie Music Scene In Review 2007

Thanks a lot to Jason Schneider at the K-W Record for digging our record and for seeing fit to include it among so many other excellent releases. Kudos, Jay. Happy New Year Folks! 1. Hot Kid - Got It ...
Posted by The Stars Here on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:49:00 PST

"Rock N’ Roll Saved Me From Cancer"

Here's some more press for "Fitzcarraldo" written by a marvelous scribe named Neil McDonald. You may remember him from such rock combos as The Machines... http://chartattack.com/damn/2007/08/1302.cfm ...
Posted by The Stars Here on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:21:00 PST

press

hey folks, please enjoy the following stories about our band. one is by the always lovely and informed j schneider, the other is excellent because it is our very first Echo cover story, (but otherwise...
Posted by The Stars Here on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:57:00 PST

well waddaya know...

folks,we now have our new record! Fitzcarraldo will not be officially released until june 14th, but if you cannot possibly wait, you can pick them up at our shows. patrick will be playing solo every s...
Posted by The Stars Here on Sat, 12 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

CD Release Party

Our new record, Fitzcarraldo, will be released at the Starlight in Uptown Waterloo on June 14th. We will have many wonderful guests and it's going to be a hell of a party. Here's the tracklisting...
Posted by The Stars Here on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:56:00 PST

sent to us from an anonymous warrior for rock

Hello Huether Management,I would just like to say that I attended the 'Go' Festival at your establishment last night and that it is the last time I will enter that building to offer you my business. I...
Posted by The Stars Here on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

Album Release Date coming soon...

Hey everyone, thanks again for everyone showing up at the last few shows...you managed to weather the storm, whether it be rain or bullets.The album is back from mix and a release date will be posted ...
Posted by The Stars Here on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:10:00 PST

light

folks, with christmas only days away, it seems fitting that recording has officially been completed. we can now finally take a day or two off from each other to enjoy the holidays. we're coming b...
Posted by The Stars Here on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:21:00 PST

nearly

hello folks, we'd intended to have our recordings finished by the 1st of December, but (surprisingly) things have been slightly delayed. we've recorded sessions with a slew of guests for the record, i...
Posted by The Stars Here on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:39:00 PST

fitzcarraldo

so we haven't posted anything here in a while... we've been slowly recording an ocean of songs in our dark, dank, spider-filled basement and at our dark, dank, cigarette-cloudy rehearsal space. we wil...
Posted by The Stars Here on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:41:00 PST