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, formed in late 2004. The band has released two albums, one single ("Toast & Marmalade For Tea" on Half Machine Records) and an EP, as well as contributing to

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, and The Flaming Lips. They have opened for The Flaming Lips at the

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D-Fest Festival 2007, on their New Year's Eve shows in 2007 and 2008, and during a brief tour in 2009. They also played the 2008 Wakarusa Festival. In the fall of 2012, Stardeath and White Dwarfs began playing shows with

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. Around the same time, they collaborated with The Flaming Lips, along with New Fumes, Linear Downfall and Spaceface, to do another song-for-song cover of an album. This time, it was the classic debut of

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'', and released it in November 2012. In 2013 they contributed to '' The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down... What a Sound'', a reworking of the Stone Roses debut album, also with The Flaming Lips, New Fumes and friends.

Discography

* ''That's Cool'' ( EP, 2005) * '' The Birth'' (LP, 2009) * '' The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon'' (LP, 2009) * ''

'' (LP, 2012) * ''Wastoid'' (LP, 2014) * ''What Keeps You Up at Night'' (EP, 2015)

References

External links

Stardeath and White Dwarfs Official Website

Review of The Birth by Stardeath and White Dwarfs on the Daily Music Guide

Review of Stardeath and White Dwarfs at London Islington Academy by James Coplin
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