Shining Stars of indie rock

There may be no more appropriate band in pop music today to perform a pair of concerts titled "Evenings of Sex and Death" than Stars, the Canadian indie pop quintet best known for songs like "Your Ex-Lover is Dead."

In six albums over 12 years, Torquil Campbell and company have kept a laserlike focus on those ideas and, at times, their intersection ("I am destroyer/I am lover," Amy Millan sings on "Death to Death").

As the band prepares for its weekend shows at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, amNY caught up with Campbell to talk about life, death and why soul music may have been the king of both.