A Head Full of Wishes

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 [...]

The Boston Globe has an interview/article about Black Postcards which covers the break up of Galaxie 500 and specifically comparing the two sides of the story. The article, Making (and losing) the band, also has quotes from Kramer and a "no comment" comment from Damon & Naomi.
Wareham made the provocative choice to open his [...]

Dean will be carrying out a (very) short promotional tour supporting the release of his memoir "Black postcards" - here's the schedule...

13th March 2008 @ Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, New York, NY - 7:30pm
Reading, book signing, Q&A and a short performance
18th March 2008 @ Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY - 7:00pm
Reading, [...]

Dean Wareham is interviewed as part of the The A.V. Club's Random Rules series...
There was pressure at Elektra. There was always someone saying, "What's the radio hit single going to be on this record? If you don't have a hit this time, we're going to drop you." They said that for about four albums, [...]

Dean has just posted the second part of his European tour diary to the official blog...
We took a scenic drive through Berlin, through the Tiergarten, by the Siegesäule, past the Rathaus and along Unter Den Linden, rather than driving directly to our hotel in the eastern part of the city. Our GPS device kept yelling [...]

(Photo: Michael Lavine)
An Excerpt from Dean Wareham's book is on the Men's Vogue website. A diary of a rock 'n' roll divorce covers the period when Britta joined Luna and Dean's subsequent divorce from his wife Claudia. There's a few nice but small photos to accompany it (one of which I've ripped off here!)...
After all [...]

Everett True has a short review of Black Postcards on his Village Voice blogs
He is pretty fucking harsh on himself, full stop. Often, you’re like, “Dean! Quit it! If you don’t like the way you’re behaving, don’t behave like it! You’re a sensitive, intelligent person—get over it.” Yet, despite—or perhaps because of—all that, Black Postcards [...]

Dean has posted an article on the Dean & Britta blog (the real one not the MySpace one although I guess it'll go there as well) summarising the first part of their European tour...
We set out for Newark airport on Thanksgiving day, 2007, flying SAS to Copenhagen, the first stop on our tour of Northern [...]

"Here is both a personal history and a cultural history. For years, Dean Wareham has made music of beguiling intimacy that draws you into mysteries, dreams and romances. Now he has written a captivating book that does the same."
-- Joe Levy, Executive Editor, Rolling Stone
"I have always been a fan of Dean Wareham and have [...]