Archive for the ‘Other people's blogs’ Category

  • Dean Wareham’s Black Postcards playlist on Largehearted Boy
    Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

    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 [...]

  • Dean Wareham blogs about…Dentistry, High School and Facebook
    Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

    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 [...]

  • 13 Most Beautiful DVD review on the TCM blog
    Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

    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 [...]

  • Dean Wareham blogs about…Cheval Sombre
    Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

    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, [...]

  • Dean blogs about banking and drummers
    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

    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. [...]

  • 13 Most Beautiful concert review on The Huffington Post
    Saturday, March 14th, 2009

    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, [...]

  • Galaxie 500 vs Vampire Weekend
    Thursday, March 12th, 2009

    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 [...]

  • Wrapping up Dean & Britta’s week guest editing magnetmagazine.com
    Monday, March 9th, 2009

    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 [...]

  • Live recording of a track from 13 Most Beautiful…
    Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

    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 blogs the Mercury Rev tour
    Friday, December 12th, 2008

    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 [...]