A Head Full of Wishes

This was just sent by Damon & Naomi to their mailing list and gives details of the Galaxie 500 reissues and what the differences are between the 20|20|20 (North American) versions and the Domino (rest of the world) version. Sorry for the big cut and paste…
The new CD reissues of Galaxie 500 on 20/20/20 are [...]

There’s a rather lovely five star review of the Galaxie 500 reissues in The Guardian by Alexis Petridis
Heard 20 years on, Today, On Fire and This Is Our Music prove not every aspect of that era’s indie rock as been stripmined in recent years. No one is currently offering Galaxie 500’s melange of trebly guitar, [...]

On 22nd March Domino Records will be re-issuing the three Galaxie 500 studio albums on vinyl (with download voucher) and double CD packages. If you pre-order the albums from Domino by March 7th you will be able to download the tracks on March 8th (two weeks before release).
The CD issues are all released with bonus [...]

I’ve come across a few videos of Dean & Britta’s recent show at Tanned Tin where they played a set of Galaxie 500 covers…
Ceremony:

Snowstorm:

Blue Thunder:

Also spotted this rather lovely picture on flickr by Nathan Wind

UPDATE:
Another video (thanks Nathan!)

Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 – Temperature’s Rising (Live at Tanned Tin 2010) from Nathan Wind on Vimeo.

On 22nd March 2010 Domino Records will be reissuing Galaxie 500’s catalogue outside of North America. The three albums will be released as heavyweight vinyl and in deluxe double CD packages. The CD packages of each album will include one of the three additional albums released after the band’s break-up. Today will come with Uncollected, [...]

Another recording pulled out from the not enough I have of Galaxie 500.

In 1991 Galaxie 500 headed out on what was to be their last tour of the US supporting The Cocteau Twins. This recoding is from the second night at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and was probably a couple of nights after [...]

Galaxie 500 are the subject of the Over/Under in Magnet Magazine picking out five ‘over-rated’ and five ‘under-rated’ tracks. Nonsense of course! Anyone who even suggests that Snowstorm could be over-rated…

Galaxie 500 have been selected to be a part of a collection of specially designed memorabilia celebrating “a visual narrative of 20 years (1977-1997) of punk, new wave and indie rock.” Artist Mike Perry has created a design for each of 10 bands which will be screenprinted onto T-shirts, bags and signed posters. These items [...]

I’ve just been re-reading Black Postcards and Galaxie 500 are breaking up again… and it’s making me sad again… maybe sadder than my first read through. Anyway in amongst all that sniping and bitteness Dean describes their festival tour of Europe in 1990. In his description of their appearance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark [...]

An impressive number of entries to this year’s competition – TWO … compared to last year’s NONE – made it tricky to pick a winner. Except… as there was always likely to be more than one winner it was actually pretty easy and the only tricky bit was inventing the categories in which they had [...]