A Head Full of Wishes

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 [...]

Another Luna gem - this one was recorded for KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on 26th October 1995. It’s a cover of Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side (from his Transformer album).
Luna - Walk on the Wild Side KCRW (192kb/s mp3 - 5.8MB)

It’s been a while since I posted any new audio so here’s a little Luna treat…
This is the first of three tracks Luna recorded around the time of Bewitched for the “Citibank Coffee House Sessions” which were, I guess, a promotional CD-based radio show hosted by Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens. First up is Tiger [...]

The break-up of Galaxie 500 was not a pleasant one and for many years after Damon & Naomi chose to keep a very clear distinction between their past and the present. In 1997 when I decided to try and put a mailing list/fan club single together I emailed Damon and Naomi asking if they’d be [...]

Music View was (maybe is??) as far as I can tell a syndicated college radio alternative music show. This interview with Dean Wareham was from around the time of the release of Luna’s second album “Bewitched”. I was sent this on a CD absolutely ages ago and have been meaning to get it on line [...]

The last time Luna were in London was in January 2005 - they played an a absolute corker of a show at ULU - we all cheered and cried and went home. Earlier in the day Dean and Sean had gone into the BBC 6Music studios to record this live session for the Gideon Coe [...]

Magnetophone were…

Damon Krukowski (guitar/vocals)
Naomi Yang (bass/vocals)
Jon Williams (guitar)
Chris Guttmacher (drums)

And this is what the out of date Galaxie 500 and related bands FAQ (snappy title huh?) has to say about Magnetophone. (courtesy of Sean O’Brien)…
At the time, Chris was also a member of Cul-de-Sac, a band he left about a year and a half ago [...]

I got a very specific request for Luna performing Season of the Witch at the show in Portland Oregon on the 10th February 2005 - if anyone has a copy of this show could you please let me know.
I ploughed through a bunch of recordings I had and found this pretty darn fine version from [...]

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 [...]

photos: Pablo ChangLuna - New Years Eve 2002
A New Years Eve show became a Luna tradition and part of that tradition was a performance of George McCrae’s disco anthem “Rock Your Baby”. The song was written by Harry Wayne Casey and Rick Finch of KC and The Sunshine Band, and was a hit for McCrae [...]