A Head Full of Wishes

Dean has answered ten questions for French pop magazine Magic - you can read the full questionnaire at deanandbritta.com
E: What was the worst thing you ever did to achieve your goals?
D: Play an acoustic set at the corporate offices of HITS magazine, a trade magazine for the radio industry, sometimes referred to as SHIT magazine.

There’s an interview with Dean Wareham on the CBC Q podcast. The interview with Dean starts 18′20″ in (after a lengthy item on poo).
Direct link to the mp3 (22MB)

There’s a bit of a followup to Liz Phair’s NY Times review of Black Postcards in an interview on Rolling Stone’s website…
You recently reviewed former Luna and Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham’s autobiography for The New York Times. How did that come about?
I had a really good time writing that. They approached me, and I [...]

Things I’d Rather Be Doing has an interview with Dean Wareham about Black Postcards…
I could barely play the guitar at that point, how could I be a professional musician? But then you learn and perhaps this is the lesson of punk rock that you don’t have to be amazing players to cook up something beautiful. [...]

The New Yorker’s music critic Sasha Frere-Jones reviews both Black Postcards and Liz Phair’s NY Times review of Black Postcards in a post on the New Yorker Online…
Wareham’s book briefly recounts his childhood—there is an excellent line about a hat he wore as a schoolboy in New Zealand—and moves on to his beginnings as a [...]

Dean Wareham is featured in the first episode of a new web TV show called Process, the five minute item features an interview and clips from Dean’s recent appearance at the Book Court in Brooklyn.

Dean will talking with host David Dye about Black Postcards in the second hour of the 8th May edition of NPR’s World Cafe. You can find out when it will be broadcast by your local public radio station on the NPR website or you can listen to the WXPN stream at 2pm Eastern Standard Time [...]

Sunday’s New York Times has a review of Black Postcards written by Liz Phair (who once pretended she was in a Galaxie 500 video)…
The author is nothing if not a connoisseur. But Wareham’s real gift is his ability to capture the minutiae of daily life in a rock ’n’ roll band and somehow make [...]

Listen to a stream of Dean being interviewed at length on Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight on WFUV.

Stranded In Stereo has a cool post about The Days of Our Nights”, the album that Dean described (in Black Postcards) as “possibly the worst” of Luna’s albums (”It’s not for lack of trying that the fifth album is a bloated dud”). It has inspired me to give the album another listen…
“Is that your [...]