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The Stars links just keep a comin'! Check out reviews of Saturday's show(December 17th) by Just Keep Bloggin' and A soundtrack for everyone. Thanks to both of them for graciously linking back to me. suckingalemon was at Saturday's afternoon show, so stay tuned for her review; in the meantime she has a wonderful photo of Amy Millan from that show.

Update: suckingalemon's review is now up. Also check out Blacking Out The Friction's review of the Saturday show. Amanda has some really nice photos from Stars' December 16th show. And according to committed's comments on Stars Saturday night show, if you saw any couples making out during the show it may have been because Stars needed scenes of people making out because they were shooting part of their new music video...that last bit of news especially for Just Keep Bloggin'

By the way, in Just Keep Bloggin's review linked above she mentioned that the show was recorded for an upcoming live DVD!

A little late with this link, but JAM! spoke to Stars' Torq Campbell in advance of their Lee's Palace stint. I found the following quote from Torq(on why he writes love songs) particularly insightful:

"It seems to me that every major religion and philosophy, since the birth of humankind, has ultimately concluded that, without love, we die. So when people ask me why I write love songs, well, I'm not sure why people write anything but love songs."

And finally, the BBC 6 Music Gideon Coe session of Stars' recent live session from Decemeber 9, 2005 is permanently archived here.

Thank you, Stars.
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XFM recently archived the recent live session that Broken Social Scene performed for them. BSS performed ‘Ibi Dreams Of Pavement’, ‘Fire Eyed Boy’, ‘Swimmers’, and ‘Super Connected’.

Chromewaves mentioned last week that Stereolab are coming back to Toronto for a show at The Phoenix on March 14th.

Effective December 15th, Rogers discontinued access to Usenet newsgroups. More info here. I'm a little disappointed but I guess with the advent of MP3 blogs, I was utilizing the newsgroups less and less anyway.