Northstar (band)

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Northstar
Country	Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Years active	1997 – 2005
Genres	Indie rock
Labels	Triple Crown Records
Members	Nicolas Torres (vocals and guitar) Tyler Odom (guitar) Jake Fisher (bass and backing vocals) Gabe Renfroe (drums)

Northstar was an American alternative Indie Rock band formed in 1997 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Since the band's inception, they have had around 5 guitarists and 3 different bassists, have been a 3 piece, 5 piece, and a 4 piece, and have had two different singers. Being from Alabama, where there is not a rock scene, they decided to start touring around the country in 2000. They booked their first tour, bought a van, and set out on the road. Since then, they have been on several U.S. and Canadian tours with many amazing bands, some of these being Taking Back Sunday, Hot Rod Circuit, Piebald and The Jealous Sound. While touring to promote "Pollyanna" the band also made a brief visit to the U.K. with Modest Mouse.

After two years of booking, promoting, and producing everything themselves, the band signed a deal with Triple Crown Records of New York in June of 2002.

With all the band's numerous changes to the setup of band members over the years, the final and most common line-up was Nicolas Torres on lead vocals and guitar, Tyler Odom on guitar, Jake Fisher on bass and backing vocals, and Gabe Renfroe on Drums. This was the line-up on their last album "Pollyanna", although Shawn Regan did replace Jake Fisher right before their signing to Triple Crown Records. Shawn took over bass duties on recording the band's debut "Is This Thing Loaded?", he also toured for over a year on "ITTL" until Jake's return to the band.

Northstar broke up in April 2005. Nicolas Torres and Tyler Odom created Cassino. The demos for Cassino were recorded with Matt Squire and used drummer Will Noon, of Straylight Run fame.