Exclusive: Rising Canadian talents Lane Webber Daniel Gravelle, June Laporte, Jordan Dawson and Hallea Jones have joined the cast of queer, indie music feature We Forgot To Break Up.
The film expands on the award-winning TIFF 2017 short film of the same name in which a young man meets up with his now-famous, former bandmates after a long absence.
The new feature will follow the story of a band of misfits who leave their small town to chase their dreams as indie rock gods in the big city.
It is billed as a love letter to the early 2000s Toronto indie music scene explored through the beating heart of a queer love triangle.
There will be original music by Torquil Campbell from the Montreal band Stars, as well as a soundtrack of early 2000s indie music from bands such as The Pixies and Cub.
Director and actress Karen Knox will direct We Forgot To Break Up,...
The film expands on the award-winning TIFF 2017 short film of the same name in which a young man meets up with his now-famous, former bandmates after a long absence.
The new feature will follow the story of a band of misfits who leave their small town to chase their dreams as indie rock gods in the big city.
It is billed as a love letter to the early 2000s Toronto indie music scene explored through the beating heart of a queer love triangle.
There will be original music by Torquil Campbell from the Montreal band Stars, as well as a soundtrack of early 2000s indie music from bands such as The Pixies and Cub.
Director and actress Karen Knox will direct We Forgot To Break Up,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp)
Though the length of Richard D. James's absence from the electronic scene has been overstated by people who neglect his less famous aliases, it Has been almost a decade since we got new music from him, and yes, the release of Syro is a welcome surprise. It is less abrasive (by my tastes, at least) than the aggressive beats found on his previous Aphex Twin album, Drukqs (I'm thinking of the blast-beat assault of 'drill-n-bass' tracks such as "Omgyiya Switch 7"); like Drukqs, Syro offers a wide variety of styles, but the whiplash factor is absent; there are no juxtapositions of frenetic computerized beats and beatless ambient piano pieces here.
Instead, the album flows. Drukqs was hard to listen to; Syro is downright ingratiating -- funky at times, occasionally even sexy or at least sensual. Even though the fastest track comes right before the closing ambient track,...
Though the length of Richard D. James's absence from the electronic scene has been overstated by people who neglect his less famous aliases, it Has been almost a decade since we got new music from him, and yes, the release of Syro is a welcome surprise. It is less abrasive (by my tastes, at least) than the aggressive beats found on his previous Aphex Twin album, Drukqs (I'm thinking of the blast-beat assault of 'drill-n-bass' tracks such as "Omgyiya Switch 7"); like Drukqs, Syro offers a wide variety of styles, but the whiplash factor is absent; there are no juxtapositions of frenetic computerized beats and beatless ambient piano pieces here.
Instead, the album flows. Drukqs was hard to listen to; Syro is downright ingratiating -- funky at times, occasionally even sexy or at least sensual. Even though the fastest track comes right before the closing ambient track,...
- 10/16/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Ryan Reynolds visits The Today Show
Birthday shoutouts go to Tom Hanks, who is 57, Fred Savage is 37, and Courtney Love is 49.
Jonathan Groff is an instructor at Theater Camp. Lucky little bastards.
Remembering Diseased Pariah News.
HBO Producing Documentary On Historic Supreme Court Gay Marriage Case
Below you can see Jeppe Hansen talk about being kicked out of ballet school when his porn career was discovered.
Stars’ Torquil Campbell To Critics Of Band’s Gay-Friendly New Video: ‘Your Parents Raised You Wrong’
Warehouse 13 aired the final episode of the season last night, and below you can see a behind-the-scenes look.
Wanda Sykes on Paula Deen.
James Franco for Gucci Eyewear.
A Scrubs reunion.
And here’s The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we’re going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We’ll be showcasing the big names, but also...
Birthday shoutouts go to Tom Hanks, who is 57, Fred Savage is 37, and Courtney Love is 49.
Jonathan Groff is an instructor at Theater Camp. Lucky little bastards.
Remembering Diseased Pariah News.
HBO Producing Documentary On Historic Supreme Court Gay Marriage Case
Below you can see Jeppe Hansen talk about being kicked out of ballet school when his porn career was discovered.
Stars’ Torquil Campbell To Critics Of Band’s Gay-Friendly New Video: ‘Your Parents Raised You Wrong’
Warehouse 13 aired the final episode of the season last night, and below you can see a behind-the-scenes look.
Wanda Sykes on Paula Deen.
James Franco for Gucci Eyewear.
A Scrubs reunion.
And here’s The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we’re going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We’ll be showcasing the big names, but also...
- 7/9/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Stars' singer Torquil Campbell took aim at naysayers today after receiving some negative remarks on the band's Facebook page about the new video for their song "Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When It Give It." The music video featured a bevy of drag queens performing interspersed with comments from them (and premiered right here at HuffPost Music Canada).
The singer's comments were well received by many with singer Emm Gryner giving kudos to Campbell. "@torquilcampbell loving u right now," she told him via Twitter while others fans showed their support. The singer concluded with one final tweet on the issue: "one other thing to the kind of people who are offended by this video; the reason i'm in a band is to fucking offend you."
Although Campbell didn't name names, it appears one or two people on the band's Facebook page posted some disparaging comments. One,...
The singer's comments were well received by many with singer Emm Gryner giving kudos to Campbell. "@torquilcampbell loving u right now," she told him via Twitter while others fans showed their support. The singer concluded with one final tweet on the issue: "one other thing to the kind of people who are offended by this video; the reason i'm in a band is to fucking offend you."
Although Campbell didn't name names, it appears one or two people on the band's Facebook page posted some disparaging comments. One,...
- 7/8/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
Stars latest album "The North" came out last fall, and this video for their electro-pop epic 'Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It' wasn't exactly shot last night. But it sure feels fitting that The Huffington Post is premiering the video moments after the U.S Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act banning same-sex marriage and overturned California's Prop 8 ban.
While the love song's lyrics only hint at gay rights issues ("There's been a lot of talk of love / But that don't amount to nothing / You can evolve the stars above / But that doesn't make it something") the video, co-directed by Torq and George Vale, turns the song's subtext into a celebration.
"I wanted to make a video that celebrated the following things: 1. being yourself 2. being someone else 3. being fucking fabulous 4. showing up, putting on your heels and staying alive," says Stars singer Torquil Campbell.
While the love song's lyrics only hint at gay rights issues ("There's been a lot of talk of love / But that don't amount to nothing / You can evolve the stars above / But that doesn't make it something") the video, co-directed by Torq and George Vale, turns the song's subtext into a celebration.
"I wanted to make a video that celebrated the following things: 1. being yourself 2. being someone else 3. being fucking fabulous 4. showing up, putting on your heels and staying alive," says Stars singer Torquil Campbell.
- 6/26/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
It's been a strange week for Stars singer Torquil Campbell. On Monday he realized the group would be scheduled at this year's Ottawa Blues Fest at the same time Icelandic singer Bjork was performing.
Tuesday morning was spent consoling bassist Evan Cranley on the Toronto Maple Leafs unprecedented playoff collapse to the Boston Bruins.
This morning Campbell is railing against the provincial election results in British Columbia, even creating his own "movingtoamerica" hashtag in protest while stating the country "is going to shit."
Yesterday the singer tweeted the following: "saying a prayer today for the end of the corrupt, incompetent campbell/clark dynasty in my beloved BC today. let's lose the losers people!"
After results yesterday showed the Liberals winning a majority, but Liberal leader Christy Clark losing her own seat, Campbell paraphrased the late writer and journalist H.L. Mencken by saying "nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the british columbian public.
Tuesday morning was spent consoling bassist Evan Cranley on the Toronto Maple Leafs unprecedented playoff collapse to the Boston Bruins.
This morning Campbell is railing against the provincial election results in British Columbia, even creating his own "movingtoamerica" hashtag in protest while stating the country "is going to shit."
Yesterday the singer tweeted the following: "saying a prayer today for the end of the corrupt, incompetent campbell/clark dynasty in my beloved BC today. let's lose the losers people!"
After results yesterday showed the Liberals winning a majority, but Liberal leader Christy Clark losing her own seat, Campbell paraphrased the late writer and journalist H.L. Mencken by saying "nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the british columbian public.
- 5/15/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
Stars singer Torquil Campbell and Andrew MacDougall, the Director of Communications for the Prime Minister's Office (Pmo) got into another war of words Saturday night in an exchange that referred to Stephen Harper, journalists and even the new My Bloody Valentine studio album.
On Jan. 30 Campbell tweeted the following: "fascists start with the economy. then they come for your freedom. @PMHarper drops hints #cdnpoli" with a link to an article on Huffington Post entitled "Harper Drops Law And Order Hints In Pep Talks For MPs."
The tweet caused Andrew MacDougall, the Director of Communications for the Prime Minister's Office, to reply. "Don't worry, @torquilcampbell," MacDougall said. "You'll be safe until the day we decide to crack down on hyperbole."
The two would then embark on lengthy series of verbal volleys back and forth. One point of discussion was a link to another Huffington Post article concerning Canada's drop in the Press Freedom Index,...
On Jan. 30 Campbell tweeted the following: "fascists start with the economy. then they come for your freedom. @PMHarper drops hints #cdnpoli" with a link to an article on Huffington Post entitled "Harper Drops Law And Order Hints In Pep Talks For MPs."
The tweet caused Andrew MacDougall, the Director of Communications for the Prime Minister's Office, to reply. "Don't worry, @torquilcampbell," MacDougall said. "You'll be safe until the day we decide to crack down on hyperbole."
The two would then embark on lengthy series of verbal volleys back and forth. One point of discussion was a link to another Huffington Post article concerning Canada's drop in the Press Freedom Index,...
- 2/4/2013
- by Huffington Post Music Canada
- Huffington Post
Halfway through their European tour, Canadian band Stars played for a passionate crowd at La Maroquinerie in Paris, France. Despite near-constant touring since early September, these rock veterans showed no signs of the road. Before starting the show, band members explored the neighborhood, stepping into a small bar for wine and calvados. Stars brought their well-honed music and stage presence to an excited crowd of expats and local parisians. Fans in the front row could be seen reaching out to frontman Torquil Campbell and stared in breathless excitement. The performance reached its energetic climax with Torquil jumping into the crowd,...
- 12/11/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Stars have been making their sometimes-dancey, sometimes-depressed brand of relationship-centric music for over a decade now, so it's a bit jarring to hear singer Torquil Campbell open a song with a line like this: "There's been a lot of talk of love, but that don't amount to nothing."
But the lyric from "Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Get It," a single off The North, is indicative of the album's refreshing candor. It's as though the old band has shed its skin and found new energy without compromising much of its sound.
So if some of the messages on The North are less subtle than the band's earlier work (there's a song called "Do You Want to Die Together?"), so be it. "I do find this record pretty different than the last record," Millan told The Huffington Post in an interview. "There's a fresh feeling going into this record.
But the lyric from "Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Get It," a single off The North, is indicative of the album's refreshing candor. It's as though the old band has shed its skin and found new energy without compromising much of its sound.
So if some of the messages on The North are less subtle than the band's earlier work (there's a song called "Do You Want to Die Together?"), so be it. "I do find this record pretty different than the last record," Millan told The Huffington Post in an interview. "There's a fresh feeling going into this record.
- 8/20/2012
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
Despite sharing their name with the term celebrity journalists apply to anyone who's ever been in television or film, the band Stars has carved out a large following. Anyone familiar with the Canadian band's blend of soothing melodies and haunting lyrics knows why: There are simply very few acts with male and female vocalists as well-matched as Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell.
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
- 7/27/2011
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
Named after a song by The Go-Betweens, Here Comes A City finds Stars frontman Torquil Campbell and longtime friend Chris Dumont consciously carrying a torch in their side-project Memphis for the hushed, up-tempo dream pop that threatened to go out of style when the Australian indie-rock greats broke up in 2006. When they’re disciplined, Campbell and Dumont are masters at this stuff, dealing in spacey darkness and having fun in the process, thumping and chanting on Here Comes A City with an exuberance they’ve never exhibited before. Recorded over a three-year period, Here Comes A City mostly omits ...
- 3/8/2011
- avclub.com
After more than twenty years of interviewing bands, I should know better than to argue with musicians about their own lyrics. They write 'em, I don't. But a few weeks ago, I decided to get cute with Amy Millan from the Canadian indie band Stars and suggest there's nary a sad song in its repertoire, in spite of the fact that Stars' sparsely-appointed-yet-ever-energetic latest collection, The Five Ghosts, kicks off with one of a slew of titles easily misconstrued as macabre. Even the black-and-white archival photo on the cover (featuring an eerie/beautiful photo of a young girl who looks like she could be Millan 100 years ago) conjures an otherworldy presence. Album art courtesy of Big Hassle. "Dead hearts are everywhere," Millan and fellow Stars vocalist Torquil Campbell purr together atop piano and arpeggiated guitar chords in the album's opener ("Dead Hearts")....
- 9/30/2010
- by Kristi York Wooten
- Huffington Post
For Stars, romance is always ridiculous. Each of the Canadian pop quintet’s four previous albums have mixed self-consciously overblown metaphors—with love manifesting itself as battles, resurrections, and blazes—and curiously specific scenes from relationship-focused procedural dramas. And so while The Five Ghosts never fully lets on whether its tales of haunting are meant to be taken as literal ghost stories, it does provide characters who are lost in their own far-out fantasies. The gravity-free haze of “The Last Song Ever Written,” in particular, plays almost as farce, with Torquil Campbell assuring us of various finalities—“This is the ...
- 6/22/2010
- avclub.com
Compared to her fellow Broken Social Scenesters, Amy Millan seems an unlikely candidate for a solo career. She possesses neither the mellifluous lilt of Leslie Feist nor the poetic gifts of Emily Haines; her brightest moments singing with Stars occur in songs like “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” and “Life 2: Unhappy Ending,” where she stands in stark, realistic contrast to the theatricality of co-vocalist Torquil Campbell. Perhaps success in the company of friends is the reason Millan highlights the collaborations that yielded Masters Of The Burial in the record’s press release: “Solo work,” she writes, “is a bit of ...
- 9/22/2009
- avclub.com
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