A Head Full of Wishes

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…
Viacom have asserted their copyright on this so sadly you ca no longer watch the video of “Sometimes We Win.” Sad how pathetically out of touch the media industry can be…

I’ve ripped the audio and you [...]

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 [...]

Slide was the first track I heard Luna play live and, like so many tracks on Lunapark, it gives me a strange feeling of nostalgia in a way that none of the subsequent Luna albums do – I’m almost tempted to say that it sounds “dated” or “of it’s time” but that might give the [...]

While I haven’t, as yet, linked all the audio from the articles most of the mp3s are now available to download from the MP3 section. I’m using Box.net for hosting just to see how things go if anyone has any problems, comments or suggested alternatives please get in touch.
Most of the concert pictures are now [...]

During 1994 Luna took to performing the John Lennon track “Hold On”. This version is from a 1994 KCRW radio session. The complete session is currently being seeded on Dimeadozen. John Lennon’s original was released on his first solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
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This is Luna reluctantly performing California (All The Way) on Philadelphia’s World Cafe in 1997.
Luna – California (All The Way) (mp3)