A Head Full of Wishes

Dean & Britta will be playing some dates in Canada and the US with Mercury Rev at the beginning of December:
# 05 Dec 2008 - @ Paradise, Boston MA, USA
# 06 Dec 2008 - @ Trocadero, Philadelphia PA, USA
# 07 Dec 2008 - @ Highline Ballroom, New York NY, USA
# 08 Dec [...]

The last night of Dean & Britta’s residency at the Zipper Factory in NYC will be a release party for the reissued L’Avventura. Support will be from Sonic Boom’s band Spectrum who are stopping by on their way to the ATP festival.
Three of Sonic Boom remixes make up the bonus tracks on the L’Avventura re-release.

The CD reissue of Dean and Britta’s first album L’Avventura should be available in your favourite stores today. You can also order it along with other D&B goodies from their new web shop that launches today. The album has been unavailable since Jetset went AWOL.
The 12″ vinyl LP of L’Avventura will be available sometime in [...]

Damon & Naomi have just posted their September update on their webpage. Top news is that the vinyl version of the re-release of More Sad Hits is now in stock…
But the truth is, back in 1992, it could only sound this good in the studio. The remastering by Alan Douches, and LP cutting by Kevin [...]

Three quarters of Luna shared the stage of the Bowery Ballroom to perform 23 Minutes in Brussels last Tuesday at the recent benefit show for Frank Bango. Dean & Britta were on the bill and Sean Eden was playing guitar wit Mr Bango as well as with Simone White and Victoria Williams. Sean then joined [...]

A few years back I started a project of putting up mp3s of tracks that Galaxie 500, Luna etc. had covered - the idea was that folk like us who had no idea as to how the original “Listen, The Snow is Falling” sounded could find out - instead it just seemed to be a [...]

Sean Eden emailed to fill me in on the details of the Luna track Westbound and Down that I came across earlier in the week - here’s what he had to say…
[It] was something i agreed to do for a friend in Austin Texas, who came to Luna shows and threw some good parties. His [...]

I can’t help but thinking this is asking for your money a bit too early but anyway you can pre-order the American Laudromat Records Cure tribute CD from their website - the CD isn’t officially released until Jan 27th - but if you pre-order it you can get it in time for xmas! The CD [...]

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 [...]

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Dean & Britta’s next show in their residency at the Zipper Factory in NYC will concentrate on the songs of Galaxie 500. The show is on Thursday 21st August and support will come from El May which is the band of ex(-almost)-Luna keyboardist Lara Meyerratken.
The Zipper Factory is [...]