A Head Full of Wishes

The excellent Largehearted Boy has published Dean Wareham’s “Book Notes” for Black Postcards; “where authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published books.”
Being a memoir by a musician, my book, Black Postcards, does cover a lot of musical ground, beginning with early memories like “Georgy Girl” by [...]

Another post on Dean’s blog over at deanandbritta.com covers a lot of subject matter so I won’t try and rehash it here but sugeest you head over there to get the latest news…I will put in an extract just to make this item seem a little more substantial…
Thursday night I went to the premiere and [...]

There’s a nice in depth review of “13 Most Beautiful” over at Movie Morlocks the official TCM movies blog. Although they sadly failed to get Britta’s name right…
Wareham and Murphy [sic] are, hands down, the ideal collaborators for this project as their music has always had a dreamy, drug-induced quality, even in their new incarnation [...]

Nice to see Dean blogging fairly regularly. Today he posts about the new Cheval Sombre album and Sunday’s launch party in NYC
Slept late today, we were up late, celebrating the release of the Cheval Sombre CD. Sunday night was the record release party at Mercury Lounge; Cheval Sombre (joined by Britta on keys and bass, [...]

Anthony – photo by Kyle Dean Reinford
Over at deanandbritta.com Dean has just posted to the blog hinting (but not telling) at which bank to hang out at if you want to meet celebrities…
I walked out in a bit of a huff, and who should I run into by the ATM machines but comedian Todd Barry. [...]

Photo by Robert Loerzel
Robert Loerzel has a good review of one of Dean & Britta’s recent Chicago performances of 13 Most Beautiful in The Huffington Post…
At this show, Dean & Britta sounded more like the V.U. than ever. Other than a few loud moments, they stayed on the more delicate end of the V.U. groove, [...]

Crawdaddy compares Galaxie 500 with a more recent bunch of Ivy League graduates…
When Wareham sings: “I don’t wanna stay at your party; I don’t wanna talk to your friends,” you believe him, because of the sighs of feedback and the secret code-like way he tells you what he does want: “I just wanna be your [...]

Dean & Britta’s week guest editing Magent Magazine’s website has now finished and to sum up here’s links to all the posts they made over the week…

Q&A With Dean & Britta
From The Desk Of Dean & Britta: La Blogotheque – The Take Away Shows
From The Desk Of Dean & Britta: “Badlands”
From The Desk Of Dean [...]

The Sound Of Indie has posted a live recording of one of the songs from 13 Most Beautiful (anyone care to identify it for me? Update: Thanks Jeff for pointing out that I really ought to have known what the track was – it’s The Enabler as previously released on a Luna EP and is [...]

Britta has written a post on the deanandbritta.com blog about the bands recent tour supporting Mercury Rev.
After 20 or 30 minutes, we came back to a much fuller room and finished our set, but my mic died again before our last song, Bonnie & Clyde, so I had to share Dean’s mic. It [was] hard [...]