Minor Stars (my band) got some love this week in the Independent Weekly:
INTRODUCING…
08.12 MINOR STARS @ THE RESERVOIR
“Minor Stars is pretty much a name change from Death of the Sun, even though it’s all new people,” says Minor Stars frontman Eric Wallen. But, at least according to him, maybe it’s a good thing the old band’s name got axed. “I always pictured the name Death of the Sun as kind of an epic, brightly burning image,” he says. “I think a lot of people thought it sounded a lot more like a death metal band.”
A lot of people were wrong: Death of the Sun, now 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. Bassist Bob Dearborn plows deep into the riff as drummer Matt McCallus drives with a steady, swinging beat. Wallen navigates the space between, his guitar wandering between the trio’s harmonized voices.
And as the band aims to become a more regular presence on area stages, the beginnings of a record left in the dissolution of Death of the Sun—the forthcoming, Scott Solter-mixed Death of the Sun in the Silver Sea—will finally see the light. 10 p.m. —Bryan Reed