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Minor Stars

Rank #6 Chapel Hill, NC Rock / Psychedelic / Indie

Minor Stars

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Members: Eric Wallen (guitar, vocals), Iain Watt (drums, keyboards), MysteryMan (bass)

Sounds Like: T.Rex, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie (Official)

Label: Summer Secret Records

Manager: Summer Secret

Bio: Minor Stars is an indie psych rock band from Chapel Hill, NC. Strong songwriting meets heavy rhythms, fuzzed-out guitars and soaring vocals to create music that bristles with energy and refuses to stand still. From the ’70s rock swagger of Queen to the quiet intimacy of Elliot Smith, Minor Stars ... See Full Bio

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: We're incredibly psyched to announce our new bassist, the mighty Joe Mazzitelli (@overfora)! We start recording our second album in June!

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“You astound me with your noise. The Death of the Sun in the Silver Sea is hard rock for the troubled mind and it's soul for the young masses.”

— Hanna Rose, Verbicide Magazine

“A collection of shoegaze and psychedelic rock, power pop and heavy metal, these deep riffs could have come from Black Sabbath, the fog above it from Swervedriver. The melodies boast hooks like Cheap Trick's and a shot of the heavy electric blues, much like Queens of the Stone Age.”

— Bryan Reed, The Independent Weekly

“All I can say is, WOW. Rock the way it's meant to be, a kick in the balls.”

— Bad Fotography (UK)

"Overdrive," the last cut on Minor Stars' debut LP zips through a hairpin turn, jerking from its familiar mid-tempo, mildly stoned rock stomp into a new, anxious and welcome post-punk jitter. It's like Swervedriver swiping a chorus from Fugazi's "Red Medicine," and it's perfect.

— Grayson Currin, The Independent Weekly

“Taking a page out of recent songbooks of Dinosaur Jr and The Melvins but not too proud to admit they like Black Sabbath too, the band turns things up to 11 and hopes you brought the right ear plugs.”

— Tim Hinely, Blurt Magazine

“The Death of the Sun in the Silver Sea is built on big classically hard rock riffs and stretched out with soaring harmonies. The result is a streamline amalgam of the '70s AM dial and the more crushing riffs of indie rock heroes such as Dinosaur Jr. It's epic stuff.”

— Linnie Greene, The Daily Tar Heel

“Minor Stars is a start-up rock band from Chapel Hill with an ambitious and promising debut that draws psychedelic sprawl, power-pop hooks, heavy metal trudge and shoegaze ambience into a concoction as sweet as it is brawny.”

— Bryan Reed, Uptown Magazine

“Minor Stars [is] a power trio with a sound that lives at the intersection of power-pop, early metal, psych-rock and shoegaze.”

— Hank Garfield, Shuffle Magazine

“It's epic stuff, and it's used as the backdrop for eloquently oblique probes into uncertainty. All told it amounts to a booming yet cerebral experience, a record that plays as well blasting out of a car window as it does under bedroom headphone scrutiny.”

— Linnie Greene, The Daily Tar Heel

"...Minor Stars sounds like just the heavy psych-rock band to plant its flag on a peak between Black Mountain and Sleep's 'Holy Mountain'. Deep, muddy riffs chug and charge and unwind into scorching licks that flicker like snake tongues."

— Bryan Reed, The Independent

“[On 'All Your Stars Out'] Wallen turns his doubt and trepidation into one of nine four-minute suites memorable enough to overfill the band's debut with promise. ”

— Hank Garfield, Shuffle Magazine

“In the end, what you are left with is a well put together and thoughtful album that echoes something long forgotten from the '70s but jacked to hell on freshness.”

— Hanna Rose, Verbicide Magazine

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The Death of the Sun

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Black Lake

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Numbers Don't Lie

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Minor Stars Record Release Party @ Local 506 1/30/2010

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Deep South The Bar
Raleigh, NC, US | 8:30pm
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Lucky 13 - The Van H...
Nice tunes!!
Messi
You guys sounded great last night at TNN! was my first exposure to you. My name is mike I play in a band called Daughter Element- If you ever need another band to open for ...
MOR
feelin it. Great songs... Peace & Success~
Sills & Smith
Dead Weight is a great song. Blasting from speakers at the moment. Trippy, proggy, damn lovely! Frank Smith
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Will be checking you out @ Nightlight tonight. I'll have earplugs...... so BRING IT \m/ \m/

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