A Head Full of Wishes

p>As well as announcing the Galaxie 500 reissues, Damon & Naomi also had plenty of news about their post-Galaxie 500 project. On 8th September 20|20|20 will release a compilation of the duo’s Sub Pop years containing 74 minutes of tracks taken from the four albums released by the label. No tracklist as yet but as [...]

p>About 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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

This Tuesday, 23rd of June, Damon & Naomi will be at the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their book publishing company Exact Change. The evening will have musical performance ‘responding to Exact Change texts’ and readings from Exact Change publications.
The show kicks of at 8pm and costs $10. Food [...]

Dean & Britta will performing songs from 13 Most Beautiful live on Thursday’s Morning Becomes Eclectic show on Santa Monica’s KCRW. The show airs at 11:15 Pacific time (find out what time that is where you are) and is streamed live (sometimes with video) on kcrw.org.

p>Almost a year ago a friend of mine put me in touch with Ian Hogarth one of the founders of gig tracking site Songkick. Ian told me that they were planning a new version of the site and was interested in meeting up to talk me through what they were planning and how I, or [...]

Nice, funny interview with Dean & Britta at The New Gay, touching on gays in the army, who they’d “go gay” for and the dawnings of heterosexuality…
The New Gay: When did you first realize you were straight?
Dean Wareham: I remember looking at dirty magazines, probably around age 10, and being aroused by photos of [...]

Philadelphia Weekly’s music blog Make Major Moves has just posted part one of a long Q&A with Dean Wareham. Mostly discussing the writing process and content of Black Postcards…
I think at a certain point I realized that several people are going to be upset by this and by that, and if I went back and [...]

Dean seems to have moved his blog from deanandbritta.com to the couple’s iLike page (although I suspect crossposting back to the official site and MySpace). In the latest post he blogs about food, upcoming shows and Zabriskie Point…
Thursday we’ll be eating cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia; before our show at Johnny Brenda’s, Friday it will be [...]