Video: Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead

Filed under: The Hit List Wintertime means cold weather and heavy snowfall for those of us in non-tropical climes, which is a mixed blessing. Sure, there's snowboarding and snowmen, but how does that help when your car is stuck in a snowdrift? More than a few artists have mined the rich metaphoric potential of winter in music videos, usually to melancholy and SAD effect (that's Seasonal Affective Disorder, by the way). Baby, it's cold outside, so read on for some frosty encouragement while you thaw out your fingers with a mug [...]

By eh Brooklyn Vegan has the report: Apparently Ben Folds slammed Canadian musician Charles Spearin on the CBC and someone, allegedly Torquil Campbell, rushed to his defense via the Stars' MySpace page . But Torq now claims the account was hacked ! Indie rock feuds are fun! But, blog readers, help me out here. I feel like BF has beef with some other (possibly Canadian) indie rock band, for allegedly stabbing their basketball. I could be getting thrown off track [...]