A Head Full of Wishes

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, [...]

Dean Americaoriginally uploaded by kirstiecat
Very cool composite picture of Dean Wareham and Paul America from Dean & Britta’s recent show in Chicago. Photo taken from Kirstiecat’s photostream where you can find another of my favourite Dean & Britta pictures.

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 first non Dean & Britta release on the couple’s Double Feature Records is out now. A Thousand Wild Flowers is a compilation of previously released but difficult to get hold of tracks by Australian band Sand Pebbles. The album can be ordered from Dean & Britta’s online shop or can be bought in CD [...]

The Walker Arts Center blog has posted a nice Q&A with Dean & Britta in preparation for next weeks two performances at the Minneapolis venue.
What do you see as your artistic legacy?
Dean: I like getting emails from kids telling me that they just listened to Galaxie 500 as the sun came up.
Britta: For me it’s [...]

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has added a second performance of 13 Most Beautiful…there will now be two shows on the 28th February, the originally scheduled one at 8:30pm and a late show at 10:30 – tickets for both are $22.

The blog Dan & Mikala’s Fantabulous Adventures in Canadia has a lovely little video of Dean Wareham reading an extract from Black Postcards at the Zulu Records instore appearance last Saturday.

Photo: Carolyn Coles on Flickr
A couple of blogs (1, 2) have mentioned that Dean Wareham will be doing a reading/signing/performance at Zulu Records in Vancouver on Saturday (31st Jan) at 4pm. I was waiting for confirmation on the Zulu records site or Dean & Britta’s blog or MySpace, but so far nothing so best get [...]

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 [...]

The New York Times has a great review (accompanied by a fantastic picture) of Dean & Britta’s show at the Lincoln Center in New York last weekend. Looks like it was quite a spectacle!