A Head Full of Wishes

Dean has posted on the deanandbritta.com blog with news about forthcoming gigs in Spain and London; some reminiscences of their recent trip to Australia and a plug for a New Year’s Eve show in Brooklyn… Check it out on their website.
Britta was a ‘One Day Guest’ curator at Schmooze Blog choosing three favourite videos.

Galaxie 500 are the subject of the Over/Under in Magnet Magazine picking out five ‘over-rated’ and five ‘under-rated’ tracks. Nonsense of course! Anyone who even suggests that Snowstorm could be over-rated…

Dean Wareham has a in-depth article on the BOMB Magazine website detailing the process of selecting and scoring the Warhol Screen Tests used in 13 Most Beautiful.
I came home from the museum with a reel of about 40 Screen Tests, and we started thinking about music, watching individual Screen Tests, throwing different pieces of temp [...]

I know I don’t do this for every concert but… it was a special night (for me at least) so in honour of that here’s a round-up of what’s out there on the Internet about Dean & Britta’s recent show at The Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline.
Show organiser Lindsay Hutton who suggested the show to The [...]

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 [...]

Decider New York has a short interview with Dean Wareham touching on fans, fatherhood and drug taking…
Don’t be a rock star. I’ve seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a “go” button and a “stop” button, and [...]

Dean’s latest blog over at deanandbritta.com plugs upcoming shows, book readings and a KCRW live performance. He also talks about Galaxie 500 songs, drummers and shows off a portrait of himself that a young Luna fan(’s father) sent in.
We are planning on playing a bunch of Galaxie 500 songs; we did this at the Zipper [...]

Frank over at the very wonderful music blog Chromewaves has three copies of Dean Wareham’s memoir Black Postcards to give away – and all you have to do is a pick a fave Wareham track (and say why). So… of you go then.