A Head Full of Wishes

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

I just came across this very sweet version of Tugboat by Spanish Boy/Girl pop band Espanto - I know nothing more than the precious little English that their label’s page has to offer…

Independent UK based music magazine Bearded has a one page feature on Galaxie 500 in it’s second edition. You can download the magazine for free from their website, although you need to register and answer some mildly intrusive questions along the lines of “how much do you spend on clothes?”
The best covers always add something [...]

Galaxie 500’s 1990 show at The Glasgow College of Printing & Design is available to download via bittorrent on Dimeadozen - you’ll need to register. The same show is also available to download from Tea With Tufty (via Megaupload)

I just came across this review on derives.net of the “Decomposing” fan tribute album - nice to see it’s getting out there…
Once this has been said, “Decomposing” features a lot of successful exercises in style. A few contributors have tried to add beats, keyboards or organ but most of them are completely faithful to the [...]

Last weekend Patti Smith played the last ever show at the legendary New York venue CBGBs - so here’s my little tribute…
First up here’s Galaxie 500 performing Hearing Voices from a show at CBGBs in October 1990.Galaxie 500 - Hearing Voices CBGBs (192kb/s mp3 - 5.0MB)
…and here’s Luna performing Rock Your Baby from their 2000 [...]

Ok, it’s been a (very) long time coming but it’s time to resurrect the Track of The Month and I guess it should start with a rarity.This is another of the “extra” tracks that were included on a few of the original Galaxie 500 demo cassettes that the band hawked round in 1987. Some of [...]

This is the excellent version of Flowers that was released on the Melody Maker compilation CD “Gigantic 2″ - recorded in Amsterdam.
Galaxie 500 - Flowers (live) (mp3)

Time for another real rarity. Well…Alll Right is a cover of the Buddy Holly and The Crickets song that turned up on a few Galaxie 500 demo tapes that the band sent out in 1987. The demo tape officially had just three tracks (Walking Song, The Other Side and On The Floor) however a limited [...]

Time for a real rarity. Open Road is a lost Galaxie 500 classic. It’s only known appearance was on a few demo tapes that the band sent out in 1987. The demo tape officially had just three tracks (Walking Song, The Other Side and On The Floor) however a limited number had a further four [...]