A Head Full of Wishes

Boing Boing introduced the wonderful concept of the Unicorn Chaser whereby a particularly unpleasant post would be followed by something considerably sweeter to look at - and what could be sweeter than a unicorn? So here’s my equivalent. This is Galaxie 500 performing Blue Thunder at a soundcheck for a show in Holland in 1989…I’d [...]

Transmissionary Sixoriginally uploaded by kexplive
In their recent KEXP performance The Transmissionary Six do a cover of Galaxie 500’s Tugboat. The set was recorded in March but has just appeared on the KEXP Live Performances podcast.

You can download the whole set from KEXP (41MB mp3).

Rendezvous has plenty of great songs - IMO it’s not Luna’s best album but was a very fine swansong and in Speedbumps has a song that’ll very probably turn up in my top 6 Luna tracks list when I can be bothered to do one. From the first moment I heard it I was taken [...]

The live show that Dean & Britta did at KEXP back on the 15th February is now available to download via the KEXP Live Performances Podcast. The set includes two songs each by Dean & Britta and Karen Ann and then all three of them performing Bonnie & Clyde.
The details (for the Dean & Britta [...]

Luna, final show, after partyoriginally uploaded byHidden Picts

Now I know that three years isn’t one of those meaningful anniversaries but it popped into my head that today was the third anniversary of Luna’s last show - so here’s the the final two songs of the last show - you can hear the emotion through the [...]

Dean & Britta provided a song for kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba! which was turned into this sweet animation…

I’ve ripped the audio and you can download that from here

In February 1989 Galaxie 500 went into Noise NY and recorded eight songs in three days - the recordings where demos for Slash records although four of the recordings eventually turned up on On Fire. During the sessions they recorded the Joy Division track Ceremony for the first time. They would re-record the track in [...]

Slide was the first track I heard Luna play live and, like so many tracks on Lunapark, it gives me a strange feeling of nostalgia in a way that none of the subsequent Luna albums do - I’m almost tempted to say that it sounds “dated” or “of it’s time” but that might give the [...]