- Galaxie 500 albums to be reissued in March 2010
Monday, December 14th, 2009On 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, [...]
- Mp3: Galaxie 500 in San Francisco 1991 (complete show)
Friday, December 11th, 2009Another 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 in Magnet Magazine
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Galaxie 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 part of “The Insound 10 Classic” collection
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Galaxie 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 [...]
- Mp3: Now we’re gonna take a trip out to the universe
Saturday, August 15th, 2009I’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 [...]
- Fourth of July Competition winners…
Saturday, July 4th, 2009An 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 [...]
- Video & Mp3: Happy Fourth of July
Saturday, July 4th, 2009I wrote a poem on a dog biscuit… but your dog refused to look at it. Have a nice day if it means something to you – have a bed in… but don’t forget to invite somebody.
I’ll post the content winners this evening – so if you want to enter you still can – and [...] - Silly Fourth of July competition…
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009About a year ago I set the challenge for someone to take a picture that proved that the Empire State building was no bigger than a nickel – the challenge was met with tumbleweed – so…
I have a bunch of duplicate CDs from various Track & Field lucky dips (incl. The Clientele, Mahogony etc) I’ve [...] - More details on the Galaxie 500 vinyl reissues…
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009The last post was hastily chucked together before work yesterday so here’s a bit more detail on the Galaxie 500 vinyl resissues. The vinly is described as being “Super Deluxe” although I haven’t managed to identify what this entails but the More Sad Hits reissue was very lovely so I have no reason to believe [...]
- Galaxie 500 vinyl available now
Monday, June 29th, 2009The three Galaxie 500 albums are ow available to order on vinyl. Visit the official store where you can order various packages of vinyl and/or high quality downloads (and T-shirts)
You can also download Fourth of July for free
