A Head Full of Wishes

Galaxie 500DOWN TO EARTHSTURGE PETERS
"Learned technique Is law method. Natural technique is nature’s method." -Ornette Coleman
"We all learned to play together a few years ago," says Damon Krukowski, sensible drummer of Boston’s Galaxie 500. Three New York high school kids, Damon (drums, percussion), native New Zealander Dean Wareham (guitar, vocals) and Naomi Yang (bass, vocals) [...]

Drivers, start your enginesGALAXIE 500By Susan Tanner
The Boston local music scene is filled with a wide variety of musical styles- from garage-grunge rock to groove-based pop to industrial dance. Yet one of the most promising bands around here these days sneaks up on you with a fuzzy, almost psychedelic sound. They are guitarist/vocalist Dean Wareham, [...]

The spacey name came long before the spacey music, Boston’s Galaxie BBS 500 freely admit, Actually, the name was taken from the ’50s-era car. But it fits their floating, cavernous music like a spacesuit, “We had other ideas, like Joy Division on a Sunny Day. We were trying to think of a very post modern [...]

ROUGH TRADEGALAXIE 500THIS IS OUR MUSIC
611 BROADWAYSUITE 311NEW YORK, NY 10012212 777-0100FAX: 212 505-9314
September 27, 1990
This Is Our Music is stolen from Ornette Coleman - the title that is, not the jazz. Damon elaborates, "We dug it because it was simultaneously so simple and true a statement, and yet so arrogant. The irony [...]

Single of the Week
GALAXIE 500BLUE THUNDER (Rough Trade)
PERFECTION: this has sepulchral bass, guitars which caress and crumble as through an opium-drenched haze, straining out-of-tune vocals which never quite attain, a wired saxophone which bursts in just when you don’t need it, silence so full of wailing noise as to make you shiver with awe every [...]

GALAXIE 500This Is Our Music (Rough Trade LP/Cassette/CD)
LISTEN, THE dawn is breaking. Almost imperceptibly, crisp sunlight creeps across the frosty soundscape of Galaxie 500, causing the gently strumming American trio to stir from their hibernation. Stretching talented little arms, they decide the world is ready for their third album.
Except for recent single ‘Fourth Of July’, [...]

GALAXIE 500 have been "much touted" recently. This means that you couidn’t throw a brick tonight (still less so if you had already thrown it at The Family Cat) without hitting here a hack, there an A&R man, there a press officer, there some other sundry member of the biz, with little chance of clocking [...]

SOME people have no conception of beauty. They think it lies in a casual glance, a trance, a finely-tuned romance, the rain trickling down your lover’s neck as you kiss goodbye, for the final time, "Paris, Texas", lit up and glowing like the world caught fire. But they’re wrong.
Beauty is Harriet’s voice trembling and tumbling [...]

Americans are loud.
This much we know. They wear loud clothes that would blind a mannequin at ten paces. They talk at excessive volumes in art galleries. They eat noisy hamburgers very noisily. And, by gum, they play terrifyingly loud music - all of them. Even Suzanne Vega.
GALAXIE 500, however, are distinctly undemented deviators from the [...]

I guess on their last flit around the world Luna popped into radio studios all along the way. This performance of Malibu Love Nest (which was their show opener during most of the final tour) is from Philadelphia and was recorded as they passed through the city on their farewell tour in December 2004 and [...]