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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

The Dears frontman Murray A. Lightburn is already preparing for the potential backlash that could stem from the Montreal-based band's next album featuring a few more rays of sunshine than its forlorn… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...