A Head Full of Wishes

I 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 [...]

p>In March 1997 Damon & Naomi played their first London show at the tiny 12 Bar Club. I still remember that show with a mixture of bliss and discomfort but the most enduring of the blissful memories is the instrument that Naomi used. A sruti box is a simple one pitch harmonium that produces a [...]

Photo by sinor favela
Cagney & Lacee was Dean Wareham and his (then) wife Claudia Silver. They released an album and a couple of singles between 1996 and 1998. The album, Six Feet of Chain was described on the sleeve as “[an] album of cover versions lovingly performed by Dean Wareham and Claudia Silver” and featured [...]

Photo by Mai Le(not from the same show as the mp3!)
Last Friday night Dean & Britta performed a low key and sparsely attended show at The Grind in Clark University, Worcester MA. A kind soul (thanks Matt) sent me a recording of the show which included a nice mix of Dean & Britta, Luna, Galaxie [...]

Photo by (michelle)
It’s Bringing You Down was released on an EP on No.6 Records which was the label run by Terry Tolkin who features in depth in Black Postcards and got a name-check in justin’s fake-telegram at the last Luna shows. As far as I’m aware the EP has never been released digitally and the [...]

originally uploaded by davidkha
This lovely cover of the beautiful Beach Boys track Forever was released in 2005 on a compilation CD sold through branches of Starbucks.
The song was originally written and sung by Dennis Wilson and originally appeared on the Beach Boys 1970 album Sunflower.

Mp3: Forvever by Dean & Britta (via Box.net).
Video: The Beach Boys [...]

Dean & Britta’s EP of soundtrack music is now available to buy from their online shop. The download-only EP features tracks the couple recorded for The Squid and The Whale (including Dean’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Hey You”) and Just Like The Son (including a reworking of a track used in Tell Me [...]

Oh I’ve been looking forward to using that clever post title for weeks.
To be honest I’m not 100% certain of the exact date that Galaxie 500’s first album was released. But I do know, thanks to a picture in the Box Set booklet, that the launch party took place at The Rat in Boston on [...]

Baking. Blistering. Boiling…originally uploaded by megankills
I came across a podcast named after and featuring this “lost” luna track. Sucking Ice Cubes had its only official release as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Bewithced and in my opinion deserved a wider audience than that. Not a throwaway, a demo or an instrumental, Sucking [...]

OK, so it’s probably a bit arrogant but I really had an idea that this site (and therefore I) pretty much knew all there was to know about Luna and their published work (or at least from 1994/5 onwards) so when I came across a track I knew nothing about this morning I felt a [...]