A Head Full of Wishes

Dean & Britta are giving away for free an EP of tracks they’ve recorded for film soundtracks to anyone who buys anything (books, cds, t-shirts etc.) from their online store. The first three tracks are from the film The Squid and the Whale and includes Dean’s cover of Pink Floyd’s Hey You (from The Wall) [...]

Here’s a review of sorts of 13 Most Beautiful…, although the fact that it was on the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts blog means it might not be considered objective. It does give a nice bit of insight and makes the wait (for me) until the DVD release seem rather a long one.
It mentions a [...]

Here’s the trailer for the DVD release of 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for the Andy Wahrol Screen Tests, it features an instrumental version of the Dean & Britta song Knives from Bavaria…

The DVD will be released in early 2009 and is available to order from Plexifilm.

Plexifilm are taking pre-orders for the DVD release of “13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” with music by Dean & Britta. There are two versions - a very limited deluxe edition for $250 and a standard DVD at $30.
This is what you get for $250 if you can stretch to that…

The limited edition [...]

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Next Friday sees the premiere of 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts. The show features 13 of Andy Warhol’s famous “screen tests” (chosen from the 200 in the Warhol Museum’s archive) including those of Lou Reed, Edie Sedgewick, [...]

Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom will appear on yet another Cheval Sombre 7″ single. I Found it Not So will be released on the UK label Static Caravan in November and is available to pre-order direct from the label now. The order button says its sold out but the home page has the Paypal [...]

American Laundromat Records are streaming all the tracks from their upcoming tribute album to The Cure “Just Like Heaven”. Dean and Britta cover Friday I’m in Love and the album also features contributions from The Wedding Present, Tanya Donnelly and Elk City.
To hear the whole album you can head over to the American Laundromat’s web [...]

The excellent blog The Sound of Indie recenly posted a lovely sounding track from Dean & Britta’s “Galaxie 500 show” from a few weeks back (see previous post), I was among a number of people who pleaded for an opportunity to hear the whole show. Sadly Howard Wolfson a pundit for the vile “media” outlet [...]

The Sound of Indie has posted an mp3 from Dean & Britta’s Galaxie 500 set at the Zipper Factpry a couple of weeks back.
This show featured ten (!!!) Galaxy 500 tunes. Needless to say, the show was sublime. Imagine sitting is a small theater listening to [the] set performed perfectly [...] It was good enough [...]

Dean & Britta will be playing some dates in Canada and the US with Mercury Rev at the beginning of December:
# 05 Dec 2008 - @ Paradise, Boston MA, USA
# 06 Dec 2008 - @ Trocadero, Philadelphia PA, USA
# 07 Dec 2008 - @ Highline Ballroom, New York NY, USA
# 08 Dec [...]