A Head Full of Wishes

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 [...]

There's a short interview with Dean Wareham on KEXP Blog talking about Black Postcards and Tell Me Do You Miss Me...
Is it much different reading the book reviews than it is reading what people have to say about your music?
Well, the book is more personal, so I guess I do take the reviews for it [...]

Teddy took a bunch of pictures at Dean Wareham's book event at The Lizard Lounge including this rather cool shot of Britta filming Dean as he reads...
photo by Teddy Trevens

Her's a cool picture of Dean reading from Black Postcards at Brookline Booksmith last week.

Photo by Thomas Barrasso.

There's a really cool long audio interview with Dean Wareham on Jon Bernhardt's Breakfast of Champions Program (Friday, March 21, 2008) on WMBR. Jon Bernhardt was one of the first people to play Galaxie 500 on the radio on Christmas day 1987 (Walking Song from the demo tape). The Dean Wareham segments starts about 1hr [...]

This is a trailer for the short film, Pumpkin Hell, that Dean mentioned in an interview a while back but that I'd forgotten about since then - the trailer is pretty funny and Dean looks the part as a sleazy pumpkin seller...so I hope the whole film gets onto the Internet soon...

If you're in the [...]

Dean will be appearing on WNYC - Soundcheck today at 2pm (EDT - what time is that where I live?).
Don't forget the free book event at Union Hall, Brooklyn this evening.

Dean Wareham's book "Black Postcards" is out today and will hopefully be on the shelves of your bookseller of choice. Alternatively you can buy it online from Amazon/A Shop Full of Wishes...
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If you're in the New York City area this evening head [...]