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The Guardian on Slowcore with Dean Wareham

Posted by Andy on 2 August 2023

The Guardian today has a piece on Slowcore that discusses Galaxie 500 and has some contributions from Dean Wareham. We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful. Dean Wareham in “The glacial pleasures of...

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#056: Dean & Britta - Mistress America

Posted by Andy on 31 July 2023

Having assumed that the previous Mistress America CD was sent to me by Dean I guess I must have bought this somewhere, although I can’t find any evidence to suggest where. This one’s been opened so it was the first one I owned. Dean & Britta - Mistress America So...

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#055: Dean & Britta live at The Legion

Posted by Andy on 27 July 2023

For a while in the early years of the century, my regular gig going partner was a taper. He mostly taped Van Morrison and Dylan shows but he liked to get practice in so I’d have him practicing at slightly smaller venues. This is a DAT of his recording of...

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#054: Füxa - Electric Sound of Summer

Posted by Andy on 24 July 2023

Füxa’s Electric Sound of Summer was released in 2012 as a picture disc on top London indie Rocket Girl Records, and featured Dean Wareham’s vocals on the cover of Suicide’s Cheree and Britta Phillips singing on the cover of Daniel Johnson’s Some Things Last a Long Time. Both are fine...

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#053: Galaxie 500 - Peel Sessions

Posted by Andy on 20 July 2023

As much as I adored the beautiful Galaxie 500 box set when it came out in 1996, it wasn’t perfect. It did have a very glaring omission! The band had recorded two sessions for the John Peel show and these being missed from the collection made it only almost perfect....

Damon & Naomi to play shows in Iceland, the UK and France in September

Posted by Andy on 19 July 2023

Damon & Naomi are heading to Europe to play their first dates outside North America since 2019. Damon & Naomi tour poster They will play their first ever date in Reykjavik, Iceland om the 1st September and will follow this with three dates in the UK and one in Paris....

Listening party for the upcoming re-release of Luna's The Days of Our Nights

Posted by Andy on 17 July 2023

Luna’s… difficult fifth album The Days of Our Nights is getting a vinyl reissue in August courtesy of Real Gone Music. On the 4th of August H.I. Art on the Edge are hosting an online listening party. The Days of Our Nights listening party promo The listening party will be...

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#052: Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music

Posted by Andy on 17 July 2023

The Chain With No Name was a collection of independent record stores that was set up in the late 1980s to try and loosen the grip of the big chains with names like HMV, Virgin and Our Price. This was mostly done by arranging limited editions from indie record labels....

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#051: Dean Wareham - Anesthesia

Posted by Andy on 13 July 2023

Released in February 1992, just under a year after the heartbreaking break-up of Galaxie 500, Anesthesia was a balm to help soothe that wound. By the time the single was released Dean had formed Luna and a couple of weeks later I saw them at The Underworld and all was...

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