A Head Full of Wishes

It's been almost excactly a year since I posted the first track from the Magnetophone demos, so I guess a reminder is in order. Magnetophone was a short-lived project of Damon & Naomi's after Galaxie 500 split up. The band recorded some demos but nothing was officially released, they (apparently) played a couple of gigs [...]

Arrived home from Portugal Thursday night. We played at the Festival of Oporto.
We went to see Cat Power the night we arrived (Friday). She was solo and sang beautifully until some guy yelled "where's your band," and set her off on a rant that never quite ended until the club turned on the music. She [...]

anywhichway but true ...........................................
1989 , I think it was. Spacemen 3 . The Subterania . London , UK . I don't remember the month - the sweat oozed from the venue walls as it [...]

On June 3 Jetset Records released L'AVVENTURA,an album by Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham. Produced by Tony Visconti.
L'Avventura was recorded in 2002. Britta and Dean played guitar and bass and keyboards,with drummer Matt Johnson (Jeff Buckley, Beth Orton, Elysian Fields). Producer Tony Visconti made many of the greatest rock records ever, he is known for [...]

Fantastic video for Words You Used To Say from Dean and Britta's Back Numbers album. Directed by Richard Agerbeek

I have to admit that I never really noticed Black Postcards as a stand-out track on Luna's penultimate album Romantica. But live, on the band's final tour in 2004/5 the song really came into its own.
This version is from the Friday night show of thier final weekend at The Bowery Ballroom and clocks in at [...]

Nice to see this finally show up, I haven't seen it since it was broadcast...
Video of Galaxie 500 on the UK TV programme Rapido in 1991
Galaxie 500 - Feature on Rapido TVUploaded by jesus_lizard

This year's xmas gift to you is a collection of barely seasonal audio and video for your delectation. Admittedly most of it has been available on the site for a while but here they all are together! Enjoy this lot and have a lovely whatever-it-is-you-celebrate...
Galaxie 500

Video: Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm
Audio: Galaxie 500 - Listen The [...]

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GALAXIE 500RIDING THE FIERY BREEZEMARTIN O'GORMAN CHARTS THE CAREER OF THE SEMINAL BOSTON 'DREAMPOP' BAND, AND ASKS FORMER MEMBERS DAMON AND NAOMI WHY THEY DECIDED TO RECORD THEIR NEW ALBUM WITH ONLY THEIR CAT FOR COMPANY.
"Our sound is a Hegelian synthesis between the abstract and [...]

ASPIRING TO PRIMITIVISMGALAXIE 500
While in New York for last year's College Radio Convention, I was given a tiny fanzine that was praising a new rash of guitar-wave pop groups like The White Sisters, The Witching Hour, The Springfields and Galaxie 500. Later that week, 1 literally bumped into Galaxie 500's singer/guitarist Dean Wareham and Marc [...]