Matt & Erin Quarterman are Star Called Sun, a duo that mixes genres, instruments, languages and cultures. They sing together and play electric guitar and accordion. Their music is slowcore, where quiet is the new loud, slow is the new fast, and taste is not the enemy of art.
Along with original songs they include revamped covers ranging from Garbage to Disney tunes to Russian rockers KINO (from whom they get their name). Star Called Sun melds the scope of The Arcade Fire with Sun Kil Moon’s intimacy, like a missing link between The Cure and Gillian Welch.
Matt grew up in Portugal and Ukraine, Erin in Indiana and Mississippi. They met at a small Southern college and began playing music together right away, spending late nights on the steps of campus buildings teaching themselves to play Bob Dylan songs. They’ve traveled the country and the world, including Boston where Matt graduated from Berklee College of Music and Erin from Boston University.
