A Head Full of Wishes

According to I read the news today: All Beatle news. the August issue of UK pop culture mag UNCUT has a cover feature on George Harrison and a covermount CD that features both Damon & Naomi's cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from The Earth is Blue and Galaxie 500's version of "Isn't It [...]

Because any excuse is a good excuse...
Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July

Luna - Fourth of July

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Boing Boing introduced the wonderful concept of the Unicorn Chaser whereby a particularly unpleasant post would be followed by something considerably sweeter to look at - and what could be sweeter than a unicorn? So here's my equivalent. This is Galaxie 500 performing Blue Thunder at a soundcheck for a show in Holland in 1989...I'd [...]

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In their recent KEXP performance The Transmissionary Six do a cover of Galaxie 500's Tugboat. The set was recorded in March but has just appeared on the KEXP Live Performances podcast.

You can download the whole set from KEXP (41MB mp3).

Lovely Spanish indie outfit Polar are celebrating their 10th anniversary with the release of a covers album that features versions of Galaxie 500's "Tell Me" and "King of Spain" and Damon & Naomi's "Information Age". The album also features covers of songs by Yo La Tengo, Bedhead and The Velvet Underground. The album will be [...]

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 [...]

This is an attempt to collect together all the groups and communities related to to A Head Full of Wishes, please leave a comment (or email me) if I've missed anything out. You can find me as "grange85" in most of these...
Mailing Lists etc.:

The Galaxie 500 Mailing List (417 members)

Facebook:

Don't Let Our Youth Go To [...]

Last call to vote in the A Head Full of Wishes 2007 Survey
Results will be announced by the end of the week so if you haven't already please go and pick your fave albums and tracks by Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta...

In February 1989 Galaxie 500 went into Noise NY and recorded eight songs in three days - the recordings where demos for Slash records although four of the recordings eventually turned up on On Fire. During the sessions they recorded the Joy Division track Ceremony for the first time. They would re-record the track in [...]

Galaxie 500 albums have recently popped up in a couple of meaningless lists.
The Guardian Unlimited has a list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die that features an appearance from On Fire and the December issue of Blender Magazine has the "100 Greatest Indie-Rock albums Ever" that has Today slotting in at No.75