A Head Full of Wishes

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 [...]

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 [...]

Transmissionary Sixoriginally uploaded by kexplive
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).

Dean & Britta, Copenhagen 2007originally uploaded by MorkyGorky

While in Copenhagen in November 2007 Dean & Britta played a secret show with guest spots from a couple of luminaries of the Danish indie scene. Most notable of these was Nikolaj Nørlund (who as well as being a solo performer is in the band The Rhonda Harris [...]

Rendezvous has plenty of great songs - IMO it's not Luna's best album but was a very fine swansong and in Speedbumps has a song that'll very probably turn up in my top 6 Luna tracks list when I can be bothered to do one. From the first moment I heard it I was taken [...]

The live show that Dean & Britta did at KEXP back on the 15th February is now available to download via the KEXP Live Performances Podcast. The set includes two songs each by Dean & Britta and Karen Ann and then all three of them performing Bonnie & Clyde.
The details (for the Dean & Britta [...]

Luna, final show, after partyoriginally uploaded byHidden Picts

Now I know that three years isn't one of those meaningful anniversaries but it popped into my head that today was the third anniversary of Luna's last show - so here's the the final two songs of the last show - you can hear the emotion through the [...]

Dean & Britta appeared on "The Current" on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday. You can listen to a good interview and them performing "Knives From Bavaria," "Words You Used To Say," and "Night Nurse."
Such nice versions of those three tracks that I recorded them and have uploaded them to Box.net (if anyone has better quality or [...]

Dean & Britta provided a song for kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba! which was turned into this sweet animation...

I've ripped the audio and you can download that from here

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 [...]