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Helen Stellar

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In an age where style is rewarded over content, cynicism inevitably becomes second nature. Passion and originality have given way to cut-and-paste songwriting and carbon-copy imagery churned out for commercial mass consumption. All is not lost. There is a light that still shines. This is HELEN STELLaR.

Listening to the complexity of their sound it’s hard to believe that HELEN STELLaR is only a threesome: Jim Evens on vocals and guitar, Dustin Robles on bass, and Clif Clehouse on drums. Originally hailing from Chicago, the trio is now based in Los Angeles.

In 2002, HELEN STELLaR caught the attention of KCRW’s Nic Harcourt, host of the world-renown radio show “Morning Becomes Eclectic”. A week after receiving their first release, The Newton EP, Harcourt put it on the air. “That was a crazy time for us,” says Jim. “We started getting all these emails from people we didn’t know asking who we were and where we came from. Then Nic Harcourt himself called us because his listeners wanted to know about us and he didn’t know what to tell them.” This attention brought HELEN STELLaR to L.A. for the first time, where Harcourt attended their first show at The Knitting Factory. When the show was over, he asked the band to play live on “Morning Becomes Eclectic” – an honor given to only two unsigned bands before them.

The endorsements kept coming – as Richard Milne of Chicago’s WXRT 93.1 FM exalted, “[The Newton EP] is so good that if I could play all four tracks off this EP, I would, because they flow so well; everything segues beautifully. Just phenomenal – better than 99% of the stuff I get.”

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