A Head Full of Wishes

I just came across these very lovely videos of Dean Wareham (and Britta and the band!) playing at an instore in Vancouver while promoting Black Postcards last January – lovely stuff!
Hearing Voices

Indian Summer

Tiger Lily

Dean Wareham has a small part in the film (untitled) that opens this weekend and he even gets a line in the trailer.

Guitrarrorists was a compilation of solo guitar pieces curated by Kramer and released on No.6 Records in 1991. Contributions came from such indie lumninaries as Thurston Moore, Steve Albini and J Mascis. I listened to the whole album a few weeks back and must admit I found it mostly heavy going.
Dean Wareham’s contribution is this [...]

I just got an email from Adrian at London’s Different Class Radio to tell me that in his latest show he’s giving away a copy of Black Postcards. You can listen to the show (and it is well worth listening to) over at the website and the competition shouldn’t be too challenging for any of [...]

Quick post to wish a Happy Birthday to Dean Wareham, who reaches 46 today. Anyone in the area can spend the day celebrating with Dean at the Celebrate Brooklyn festival in Prospect Park from 7:30 or at The Bell House in NYC from 10:30. If not… you can grab a bottle of coke and drink [...]

On Saturday Dean & Britta will be performing 13 Most Beautiful at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival. Support comes from Crystal Stilts. The show kicks off at 7:30 and is free (but probably worth the suggested £3 $3 donation). Afterwards Dean & Britta will be heading down [...]

Dean Wareham has a in-depth article on the BOMB Magazine website detailing the process of selecting and scoring the Warhol Screen Tests used in 13 Most Beautiful.
I came home from the museum with a reel of about 40 Screen Tests, and we started thinking about music, watching individual Screen Tests, throwing different pieces of temp [...]

On August 4th Dean Wareham will be appearing at an event entitled Stories in High Fidelity at The Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. The event is described as being “an evening of musical readings” and will feature contributions from other authors. Tickets are $10 in advance and are available from The Union Hall website.

Here’s a lovely set of photos of Dean & Britta’s recent performance of “13 Most Beautiful” in Marseille…

Philadelphia Weekly’s music blog Make Major Moves has just posted part one of a long Q&A with Dean Wareham. Mostly discussing the writing process and content of Black Postcards…
I think at a certain point I realized that several people are going to be upset by this and by that, and if I went back and [...]