A Head Full of Wishes

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 [...]

Dean seems to have moved his blog from deanandbritta.com to the couple’s iLike page (although I suspect crossposting back to the official site and MySpace). In the latest post he blogs about food, upcoming shows and Zabriskie Point…
Thursday we’ll be eating cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia; before our show at Johnny Brenda’s, Friday it will be [...]

Decider New York has a short interview with Dean Wareham touching on fans, fatherhood and drug taking…
Don’t be a rock star. I’ve seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a “go” button and a “stop” button, and [...]

There’s a nice in-depth Q&A with Dean Wareham at the Philly Fringe website promoting Dean & Britta’s 13 Most Beautiful appearances at the festival in September (and their regular show at Johnny Brenda’s on Thursday). The interview deals mostly with 13 Most Beautiful covering, amongst other topics, how they selected screen tests…
The more I read [...]

Dean’s latest blog over at deanandbritta.com plugs upcoming shows, book readings and a KCRW live performance. He also talks about Galaxie 500 songs, drummers and shows off a portrait of himself that a young Luna fan(’s father) sent in.
We are planning on playing a bunch of Galaxie 500 songs; we did this at the Zipper [...]

Earfarm has a nice interview with Dean Wareham and is also giving away five copies of the paperback…
Wait, you haven’t bought it yet? Well, I guess it’s a good thing we have FIVE paperback copies to give away. Interested? Write to us and let us know in a sentence or two why you want to [...]

Frank over at the very wonderful music blog Chromewaves has three copies of Dean Wareham’s memoir Black Postcards to give away – and all you have to do is a pick a fave Wareham track (and say why). So… of you go then.

The excellent Largehearted Boy has published Dean Wareham’s “Book Notes” for Black Postcards; “where authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published books.”
Being a memoir by a musician, my book, Black Postcards, does cover a lot of musical ground, beginning with early memories like “Georgy Girl” by [...]

AOL’s Daily Finance web site has an interview with Dean Wareham about Black Postcards with, unsurprisingly, a more “business” angle than most interviews
Isn’t this the nature of capitalism — deepening cycles of boom and bust? But the compact-disc business is faltering because of changes in technology; that can’t be stopped.

p>Warped Reality has a long interview with Terry Tolkin one of the stars of Dean Wareham’s book Black Postcards. The interview deals with Terry’s independent label No.6 Records as well as his time as an A&R man for Elektra Records during which time he signed Luna and a myriad of other cool bands.
I’m proud to [...]