A Head Full of Wishes

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It’s Bringing You Down was released on an EP on No.6 Records which was the label run by Terry Tolkin who features in depth in Black Postcards and got a name-check in justin’s fake-telegram at the last Luna shows. As far as I’m aware the EP has never been released digitally and the [...]

The North Fork Sound blog has just posted a video of Luna playing Pup Tent in-store at Amoeba Records in San Francisco from April 2000 (which makes it a pretty early Britta appearance).

Video: Luna – Pup Tent

Baking. Blistering. Boiling…originally uploaded by megankills
I came across a podcast named after and featuring this “lost” luna track. Sucking Ice Cubes had its only official release as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Bewithced and in my opinion deserved a wider audience than that. Not a throwaway, a demo or an instrumental, Sucking [...]

A nice sounding recording of Luna playing at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco, CA USA from 2002 is being seeded on Dimeadozen. You need to be registered with the site to grab this. Registration can ocasionally be difficult (the site is generally at its user limit) but apparantly persistence is the best advice for [...]

Three quarters of Luna shared the stage of the Bowery Ballroom to perform 23 Minutes in Brussels last Tuesday at the recent benefit show for Frank Bango. Dean & Britta were on the bill and Sean Eden was playing guitar wit Mr Bango as well as with Simone White and Victoria Williams. Sean then joined [...]

Sean Eden emailed to fill me in on the details of the Luna track Westbound and Down that I came across earlier in the week – here’s what he had to say…
[It] was something i agreed to do for a friend in Austin Texas, who came to Luna shows and threw some good parties. His [...]

OK, so it’s probably a bit arrogant but I really had an idea that this site (and therefore I) pretty much knew all there was to know about Luna and their published work (or at least from 1994/5 onwards) so when I came across a track I knew nothing about this morning I felt a [...]

Tell Me Do You Miss Me, the film documenting Luna’s last tour will be screened at the Revolve Film & Music Festival in North Carolina. The film will show at the Salem Fine Arts Center on the 9th of August at 8pm, and will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Matthew Buzzell and ex-Luna [...]

SOLD OUT

I’ve just came across 13 copies of the Dear Paulina single put out by Grange85 Records (that’s me) in 1999. The single contains two of the tracks that Luna recorded for the film Thursday. Here’s the info from the database…
Dear Paulina
7″ – Grange85 (1999)
Written by LUNA, recorded and mixed by Gary Maurer Limited edition [...]

Because any excuse is a good excuse…
Galaxie 500 – Fourth of July

Luna – Fourth of July

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