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The Chinese Stars

American musical group; noise rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3520264 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chinese Stars is an American noise rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2003.

History

The band The Chinese Stars was formed in 2003 with several of the members from Arab on Radar, which had disbanded in 2002. The founding members include Eric Paul, Craig Kureck, and Rick Ivan Pelletier.

The band released their first album, Turbo Mattress, in 2003 through Skin Graft Records.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Chinese Stars” is american musical group; noise rock band. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chinese, Stars and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chinese, Stars and American is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american musical group; noise rock band” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3520264. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2002.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow The Chinese Stars primary sources, The Chinese Stars archive and Chinese research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Chinese Stars” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.