Stellastarr* leave RCA

New York band Stellastarr* have told the NME they are looking for a new recording contract after parting company with SonyBMG's RCA Records, seemingly not approving of the changes that have happened at the major since the Sony/BMG merger back in 2004 (hey, if they waited a few more months, it might be just BMG again, more on that in a minute). The band's frontman, Shawn Christensen, told NME: "It was sad to watch a label that was doing perfectly fine on its own suddenly change their entire structure. Different people were running the show and we weren't profiting from any of it". He says the band are now "flirting" with other labels while working on their third album, adding that the label change "won't affect the progress of our new record. We're just really having fun writing it. Everything else will fall into place eventually".