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In an effort to break the 90's flashback theme going on in the past few posts, our Fresh from the Post artist swings us back to the present....an 80's themed present that is.

The Venus Stare are Anthoni "Toni" Lone, Edward Clipse, Angela Maze and Linda Ipgloss - four friends admittedly obsessed with 1980s powerballads and outrageous 80's fashion. The video above is their freshly released music video for their time-warp generating single Close To You - which the band debuts today on The Indie Music Database.

We had a quick chat with the group about their new release and how one little eighties movie started it all -

For today's Fresh from the Post, we go with some folksy guitar pop with Saul Ste. Marie, Ontario's Kalle Mattson. The group started out in 2007 with singer-songwriter Kalle Wainio, and grew to a full band with the addition of Rory Lewis, Théan Slabbert  and Jimmie Chiverelli, releasing two albums- 2008's Telescope EP and 2009's full length album Whisper Bee.

A group on the rise, Kalle Mattson has been recently nominated at this year's Northern Ontario Music Awards. They're also slotted to perform at the upcoming Canadian Music Week in Toronto.

We talk with the group's frontman Kalle Wainio, who gets to answer this week's Fresh from the Post questions -

En Tout Cas is Jimmy Cain, Dave Cameron, Skube Burnell and Marc Stubberfield, a four-piece band from Melbourne, Australia - who create noisy guitar pop inspired by quiet walks along the beach and hemorrhagic fever.

They just finished wrapping up their new EP, 'Dengue Fever' -  which will be out next month, and had some time to kill for a Fresh from the Post Q and A. Their drummer Skube takes a shot at our questions and gives a sampling of what's in store for us on their upcoming EP release -

I always love bands that come from non-english speaking countries - especially ones that release records in english. For me, there's always a draw to artists that step out of their comfort zone to create something that can reach a larger audience - and I thank them, because with my limited knowledge of the world's many languages and my own unending need for new music - they give me something new to whet my appetite with.

This week's Fresh from the Post artist comes from a little Belgian town called Huy. They've been around for a while, supporting acts such as The Rakes, Maximo Park and The Charlatans and (according to their bio) have a long standing quest to find 'that perfect pop song to appeal to housewives and students, CEOs and motorists stuck in traffic jam for days'. That's a pretty specific target audience if you ask me - whether or not they've achieved it is up to the housewives, students, CEOs and motorists in question. For today though, they take a short break from that long standing quest as Showstar's Chris, Tony, Dave, Dannny and Bruce talk to us about their band and their newly released album 'Think Ringo' -

I never get much mail really. The electronic type I get tons of, but the real type that comes from Mr. Mailman, rarely. So imagine my delight when I received a CD in the mail, along with a cool numbered art print from Chapel Hill, NC band - Polynya.

I have a weakness for indie-pop, female vocals and electronic music, so after a few listens to Crop Rotation , I knew I just had to feature this band. Luckily, band member Luke Berchowitz allowed us to do a virtual sit down, and takes on this week's Fresh from the Post questions -