A Head Full of Wishes

This year’s xmas gift to you is a collection of barely seasonal audio and video for your delectation. Admittedly most of it has been available on the site for a while but here they all are together! Enjoy this lot and have a lovely whatever-it-is-you-celebrate…
Galaxie 500

Video: Galaxie 500 – Snowstorm
Audio: Galaxie 500 – Listen The [...]

OK this is a shot at bringing the guestbook back – the code is still a bit flaky so some things may go fruity but please be patient Email me with any bug reports thanks.
It’s using the same code as the commenting so spam should be fairly well managed. The main problems are likely to [...]

Compiled by Andy Aldridge
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The Questions

The artists and the songs

Galaxie 500 and related artists

Galaxie 500
Luna *
Magnetophone
Pierre Etoile
Damon and Naomi
Magic Hour
Kramer
Cagney and Lacee
Tuatara
Collaborators

Angel Corpus Christi
The Pastels
The 6ths/Stephen Merritt
Pee Shy
Mercury Rev
Hugh Hopper
Mutton Gun
Ivy
Laetitia Sadier
Ralph Carney
Sterling Morrison
Tom Verlaine
Tom Rapp
Kickstand
Batoh and Kurihara
Cover Versions

Galaxie 500

Don’t Let [...]

The iambewitched FTP server has now been permanently closed.

A head full of wishes started at the tail end of 1994 sadly neither I nor the Wayback Machine have anything from that long ago – so here’s a quick glimpse of the site’s more recent history…
April 1997 – wayback machine
October 1997 – wayback machine
January 1999 – wayback machine
October 1999 – wayback machine
August 2000 – [...]

Rock fans who crave daring, innovation and an assertive stance in their music aren’t apt to take a shine to Luna.The band’s leader, Dean Wareham, is a small, slight fellow with a wan, murmuring singing voice and the personal magnetism of a loan officer. No stylistic adventurer, Wareham is content to follow in the well-trod [...]

The show was pretty well attended and the crowd was enthusiastic – I know I say this every time but I’m always astounded to find that there are people over here who love Luna as much as I do.Support act Scanners made pretty much the sort of racket that kids of their age should make [...]

Luna at Irving Plaza-New York, November 27, 2004The anticipation had been killing me for the entire twenty two day period between the Middle East show and the Irving show. Not only was it a road trip to New York for a Luna show but this time I had the added excitement (or even danger) of [...]

LUNA w/ Apostles of Hustle $14.00Tuesday, November 09, 2004Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OHA few observations from the Beachland Ballroom show* Once the opening band had cleared their equipment from the stage, Lee was setting up sticks of incense in various spots on the stage and around his drum kit.* First time hearing Malibu Love Nest sung [...]

Written by Jen Rajkowski
Luna- Rendezvous: Jetset 2004This review has been sitting on my desktop since the day I received the promo in the mail, waiting for a date closer to the October 26th release to post. Things have changed, as many may have recently read, Rendezvous is to be the LAST Luna release (announced [...]