A Head Full of Wishes

I just noticed that Dean & Britta have one of the tracks from 13 Most Beautiful streaming on their MySpace page. The tracks is Silver Factory and is used to accompany the Billy Name screen test.

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This lovely cover of the beautiful Beach Boys track Forever was released in 2005 on a compilation CD sold through branches of Starbucks.
The song was originally written and sung by Dennis Wilson and originally appeared on the Beach Boys 1970 album Sunflower.

Mp3: Forvever by Dean & Britta (via Box.net).
Video: The Beach Boys [...]

Dean & Britta’s EP of soundtrack music is now available to buy from their online shop. The download-only EP features tracks the couple recorded for The Squid and The Whale (including Dean’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Hey You”) and Just Like The Son (including a reworking of a track used in Tell Me [...]

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 [...]

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There’s a lovely set of photos of Dean & Britta’s performance fo 13 Most Beautiful at The Wexner Center in Columbus OH a couple of weeks back. The photos were taken by Kim Rottmayer

Tickets are now on sale for the performance of “13 Most Beautiful…” at the Lincoln Centre in NYC on January 17th 2009.

Dean Wareham will be taking part in a panel discussion about “Warhol, Music, and Image” with Mark Richardson of Pitchfork , and Ohio State Professor Barry Shank. The event is on Thursday 20th November at 5pm at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus OH. Dean & Britta will be performing “13 Most [...]

Dean has posted a “what we’re up to” post to the Dean & Britta blog…
We have been super busy in the studio the last couple of weeks, recording and mixing the thirteen tracks for the DVD release early next year. Basic tracks were recorded by the band at Bryce Goggin’s Trout Recording studio in Brooklyn, [...]

You may remember a couple of months back that excellent blog The Sound of Indie decided to hold a recording of Dean & Britta’s Galaxie 500 show at the Zipper Factory hostage to prevent Howard Wolfson, pundit for the vile media outlet Fox News, getting his paws on it. The recording would be kept locked [...]

Pre orders of the American Laundromat Records album Just Like Heaven – A Tribute to The Cure have started shipping (I got mine on Friday). American Laundromat have put up a media web page where you can stream some tracks (including Dean & Britta’s cover of Friday I’m in Love), read quotes from the contributors [...]