A Head Full of Wishes

Dean Wareham is featured in the first episode of a new web TV show called Process, the five minute item features an interview and clips from Dean's recent appearance at the Book Court in Brooklyn.

Dean will talking with host David Dye about Black Postcards in the second hour of the 8th May edition of NPR's World Cafe. You can find out when it will be broadcast by your local public radio station on the NPR website or you can listen to the WXPN stream at 2pm Eastern Standard Time [...]

Sunday's New York Times has a review of Black Postcards written by Liz Phair (who once pretended she was in a Galaxie 500 video)...
The author is nothing if not a connoisseur. But Wareham’s real gift is his ability to capture the minutiae of daily life in a rock ’n’ roll band and somehow make [...]

Teddy took a bunch of pictures at Dean Wareham's book event at The Lizard Lounge including this rather cool shot of Britta filming Dean as he reads...
photo by Teddy Trevens

Her's a cool picture of Dean reading from Black Postcards at Brookline Booksmith last week.

Photo by Thomas Barrasso.

There's a really cool long audio interview with Dean Wareham on Jon Bernhardt's Breakfast of Champions Program (Friday, March 21, 2008) on WMBR. Jon Bernhardt was one of the first people to play Galaxie 500 on the radio on Christmas day 1987 (Walking Song from the demo tape). The Dean Wareham segments starts about 1hr [...]

This is a trailer for the short film, Pumpkin Hell, that Dean mentioned in an interview a while back but that I'd forgotten about since then - the trailer is pretty funny and Dean looks the part as a sleazy pumpkin seller...so I hope the whole film gets onto the Internet soon...

If you're in the [...]

Dean Wareham's book "Black Postcards" is out today and will hopefully be on the shelves of your bookseller of choice. Alternatively you can buy it online from Amazon/A Shop Full of Wishes...
Buy Black Postcards from A Shop Full of Wishes (US)
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If you're in the New York City area this evening head [...]

The Boston Globe has an interview/article about Black Postcards which covers the break up of Galaxie 500 and specifically comparing the two sides of the story. The article, Making (and losing) the band, also has quotes from Kramer and a "no comment" comment from Damon & Naomi.
Wareham made the provocative choice to open his [...]

Dean will be carrying out a (very) short promotional tour supporting the release of his memoir "Black postcards" - here's the schedule...

13th March 2008 @ Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, New York, NY - 7:30pm
Reading, book signing, Q&A and a short performance
18th March 2008 @ Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY - 7:00pm
Reading, [...]