A Head Full of Wishes

I’m not sure of David’s sources but it seems that This is Our Music may be featured as the Great Lost Album on Gideon Coe’s BBC 6Music show on the 28th of December.
If it turns out to be true you can visit the website and pick one of three nominated tracks to get played and [...]

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GALAXIE 500RIDING THE FIERY BREEZEMARTIN O’GORMAN CHARTS THE CAREER OF THE SEMINAL BOSTON ‘DREAMPOP’ BAND, AND ASKS FORMER MEMBERS DAMON AND NAOMI WHY THEY DECIDED TO RECORD THEIR NEW ALBUM WITH ONLY THEIR CAT FOR COMPANY.
"Our sound is a Hegelian synthesis between the abstract and [...]

ASPIRING TO PRIMITIVISMGALAXIE 500
While in New York for last year’s College Radio Convention, I was given a tiny fanzine that was praising a new rash of guitar-wave pop groups like The White Sisters, The Witching Hour, The Springfields and Galaxie 500. Later that week, 1 literally bumped into Galaxie 500’s singer/guitarist Dean Wareham and Marc [...]

Galaxie 500DOWN TO EARTHSTURGE PETERS
"Learned technique Is law method. Natural technique is nature’s method." -Ornette Coleman
"We all learned to play together a few years ago," says Damon Krukowski, sensible drummer of Boston’s Galaxie 500. Three New York high school kids, Damon (drums, percussion), native New Zealander Dean Wareham (guitar, vocals) and Naomi Yang (bass, vocals) [...]

Drivers, start your enginesGALAXIE 500By Susan Tanner
The Boston local music scene is filled with a wide variety of musical styles- from garage-grunge rock to groove-based pop to industrial dance. Yet one of the most promising bands around here these days sneaks up on you with a fuzzy, almost psychedelic sound. They are guitarist/vocalist Dean Wareham, [...]

The spacey name came long before the spacey music, Boston’s Galaxie BBS 500 freely admit, Actually, the name was taken from the ’50s-era car. But it fits their floating, cavernous music like a spacesuit, “We had other ideas, like Joy Division on a Sunny Day. We were trying to think of a very post modern [...]

ROUGH TRADEGALAXIE 500THIS IS OUR MUSIC
611 BROADWAYSUITE 311NEW YORK, NY 10012212 777-0100FAX: 212 505-9314
September 27, 1990
This Is Our Music is stolen from Ornette Coleman - the title that is, not the jazz. Damon elaborates, "We dug it because it was simultaneously so simple and true a statement, and yet so arrogant. The irony [...]

Single of the Week
GALAXIE 500BLUE THUNDER (Rough Trade)
PERFECTION: this has sepulchral bass, guitars which caress and crumble as through an opium-drenched haze, straining out-of-tune vocals which never quite attain, a wired saxophone which bursts in just when you don’t need it, silence so full of wailing noise as to make you shiver with awe every [...]

GALAXIE 500This Is Our Music (Rough Trade LP/Cassette/CD)
LISTEN, THE dawn is breaking. Almost imperceptibly, crisp sunlight creeps across the frosty soundscape of Galaxie 500, causing the gently strumming American trio to stir from their hibernation. Stretching talented little arms, they decide the world is ready for their third album.
Except for recent single ‘Fourth Of July’, [...]

GALAXIE 500 have been "much touted" recently. This means that you couidn’t throw a brick tonight (still less so if you had already thrown it at The Family Cat) without hitting here a hack, there an A&R man, there a press officer, there some other sundry member of the biz, with little chance of clocking [...]