A Head Full of Wishes

Photo by Mai Le(not from the same show as the mp3!)
Last Friday night Dean & Britta performed a low key and sparsely attended show at The Grind in Clark University, Worcester MA. A kind soul (thanks Matt) sent me a recording of the show which included a nice mix of Dean & Britta, Luna, Galaxie [...]

Photo by (michelle)
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 Sound Of Indie has posted a live recording of one of the songs from 13 Most Beautiful (anyone care to identify it for me? Update: Thanks Jeff for pointing out that I really ought to have known what the track was – it’s The Enabler as previously released on a Luna EP and is [...]

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 [...]

The excellent blog The Sound of Indie recenly posted a lovely sounding track from Dean & Britta’s “Galaxie 500 show” from a few weeks back (see previous post), I was among a number of people who pleaded for an opportunity to hear the whole show. Sadly Howard Wolfson a pundit for the vile “media” outlet [...]

The Sound of Indie has posted an mp3 from Dean & Britta’s Galaxie 500 set at the Zipper Factpry a couple of weeks back.
This show featured ten (!!!) Galaxy 500 tunes. Needless to say, the show was sublime. Imagine sitting is a small theater listening to [the] set performed perfectly [...] It was good enough [...]

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 [...]