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.

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 ...

It’s been four years since we’ve heard from Montreal mainstays The Dears, but they’ve got not one but two new albums on the way. Well, two parts of whole, titled Times Infinity. The first volume will ...

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 ...

The Canadian music press is aflutter with the news that the conservative-led government cut off funding to a program designed to promote Canadian music abroad. It seems those rascals in Holy Fuck had ...

Montréal’s The Dears are releasing a new album, Lovers Rock, on May 15 via Dangerbird. Now they have shared another song from the album, “I Know What You’re Thinking and It’s Awful,” via a video for ...

A George Michael–esque ass wiggle was the closest thing to banter that the Dears front man Murray Lightburn indulged in at last night’s Hiro Ballroom show. That came toward the end of their set, ...

The Dears have always made apocalyptic love songs for an existential crisis, but the Montréal quintet certainly could not have known just how much their music would be needed, when recording last year ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Lightburn was still touring his 2019 solo record Hear Me Out as work began ...

"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 ...