  stellastarr (styled as stellastarr*) is an american indie rock band based in new york city. it is composed of shawn christensen (vocals, rhythm guitar), amanda tannen (bass, vocals), arthur kremer (drums, percussion, keyboards), and michael jurin (lead guitar, vocals). ==history== the band formed in march 2000 from the ashes of a previous musical effort formed while studying art and design at the pratt institute in brooklyn. a few years later, after a chance meeting with jurin, who had recently relocated to brooklyn and had left his former band charlotte's funeral behind in his hometown of philadelphia, the former classmates reunited, this time with christensen on vocals. the band was named after an old purple hearse parked in poughkeepsie, where christensen grew up. stellastarr played their first gig at luna lounge, formerly on the lower east side of manhattan in july 2000, and released a limited series of independent/homemade ep cds shortly thereafter. they have toured with jane's addiction, the raveonettes, placebo, the killers, and editors. stellastarr have played live in the united states, the united kingdom, canada, mexico, japan, and europe. their third album, civilized, was released in july 2009 on their own label, bloated wife. the album recovers the speed of the first and the essence of the second. "graffiti eyes" and "numbers" are the singles, the last one had a b-side that included "winter song." members of the band have collaborated with project runway winner christian siriano and his boyfriend, musician brad walsh on music for siriano's runway shows at fashion week. michael jurin played guitar on walsh's song "pop" which was the runway music in 2009, and amanda tannen contributed vocals to the song "i got what u need" on walsh's 2009 album. the band are currently on an indefinite hiatus. arth
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