Montréal’s The Dears are releasing a new album, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!, this Friday on Next ...

The Dears‘ frontman Murray A Lightburn has a busy March ahead. At the end of the month he’ll release his second solo album, Once Upon a Time in Montreal. Murray calls it “an audio version of a biopic, ...

Retro salvation came to Lightburn on Hear Me Out, a soul-baring album infused with the lush sonorities of classic soul. Murray Lightburn was stuck. Having dug out his 4×4 from under a mountain of snow ...

“Oh, cool! A Curious George doll!” exclaims Dears frontman Murray Lightburn. “I’ve been wanting one of these for my kid for ages.” He pauses. “Sorry about that—I got sidetracked. I’m in a pharmacy ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Murray A. Lightburn, the longtime frontman of Montreal's acclaimed The ...

Canada Day is fast approaching on July 1, and one of Montréal's most notable bands is The Dears, who released their fifth album, Degeneration Street, earlier this year. The Dears play Montréal's Club ...

It's been a while since I've gone to a gig where I could've counted the audience. Whilst I was a little surprised that The Dears had not sold out The Haunt, it did make for a more intimate experience.

He just turned 40, but the Dears’ frontman Murray Lightburn isn’t planning on hanging up the microphone any time soon. In fact, after a U.S. label change (from Arts & Crafts to Dangerbird Records) and ...

Murray Lightburn, founder of The Dears, found himself receiving unwanted press from the liner notes of his band's latest release, "No Cities Left," which credited him as the album's writer, producer ...

I first caught The Dears before their 2005 UK tour. Not sure what to make of their sullen hopefulness at first, I was eventually won over by the epic nature of their songs, an element that fellow ...

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 Dears’ ...