Stars

‘Under the Radar’ mag is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an album of covers featuring Alex Lahey, Cassandra Jenkins, Girl Ray, Cults, Nation of Language, Kevin Drew, Sondre Lerche, and more.

Stars bring their “The Together Tour,“ where they celebrate two decades as a band, to NYC, Philly and the Boston area this week. Frontman Torquil Campbell’s Top 10 of 2021 includes Dry Cleaning, Kacey Musgraves, Cassandra Jenkins, and more.

Plus: Stars, Dijon, Saba, Dry Cleaning, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, and more tour and festival news.

Stars have called Montreal their homebase for a long time now, but the group actually formed in NYC back in 2000, when they were regulars at places like Fez. They’ve just announced that they’ll be “going back to the city where it all began“ for a special show…

Plus: Michael C. Hall’s Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, Osheaga 2021, Hot Water Music, The Fiery Furnaces, Julianna Barwick, and more tour and festival news.

Broken Social Scene, Khruangbin, The War on Drugs, Andy Shauf, Fruit Bats, Bedouine, Tegan and Sara, Delicate Steve, Molly Sarle, The Shins, Chaos Chaos, Stars, Lucius, Tim Burgess, Patrick Watson, We Were Promised Jetpacks and more have all contributed playlists to Music Runs, a virtual charity run supporting NIVA.

The Victoria, BC club had been open for more than two decades. Japandroids’ Dave Prowse said seeing Dan Boeckner’s pre-Wolf Parade band there in 2002 was what made him want to start a band.

There are also upcoming listening parties with Moloko, Supergrass, Cabaret Voltaire, Badly Drawn Boy, ABC, Kate Nash, OMD, Gruff Rhys, and more.

plus Radiohead, Ben Gibbard, Mac DeMarco, Clairo, Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio, Princess Nokia, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

plus Metronomy, Cloak, Virgil Abloh, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.