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Dean Wareham on Writing Music in a World on Fire
Interview by Christopher J. Lee “Bombs and bullshit fill the air” is the line that opens “Yesterday’s Hero,” a track from Dean Wareham’s new solo album, That’s the Price of Loving Me. It isn’t difficult to grasp the reference to Gaza, though it may be surprising to hear Wareham deliver an unvarnished sentiment of this kind. His latest album is infused with politics in a way that makes transparent a side of Wareham that has long existed, if not always expressed directly.
“You Were The Ones I Had To Betray" by Dean Wareham
Dean Wareham will release his new album That’s The Price Of Loving Me on March 28th via Carpark Records (Ducks LTD., The Beths). The LP was produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Will Oldham, Low) as producer, marking their first collaboration in 34 years. The pair last worked together on Galaxie 500’s swan song This Is Our Music in 1990. The album is buoyed by Wareham’s signature electric guitar stylings. “Kramer insisted that I play all the guitars on this record,” says Dean. “And we worked quickly.
Legado de terciopelo eléctrico
Van ya unas cuantas visitas a Zaragoza de los neoyorquinos Luna, la última este sábado en un horario más propio del vermú. Quien suscribe nunca fue especialmente devoto de sus discos allá por los 90 y, sin embargo, en directo los disfruta con fruición una y otra vez; incluso en alguna ocasión en que parecían un tanto espesos o poco inspirados, de pronto resurgían con intensos fogonazos eléctricos que valían por todo el concierto.
Encounters with Tom Verlaine
Everyone knows that Television was instrumental in creating New York’s punk scene — that CBGB’s would not have existed as a venue without their intervention — but ever since their debut Marquee Moon came out in 1977, critics wondered if there was anything punk about the band at all. Maybe that’s why, for all the classic punk records released in the late seventies, this is the one that seems as relevant and modern today as it was then; it is not dated by slogans, fashions or sounds.
Eleanor Marx: The Last Word
Eleanor Marx at the age of 18, in 1873. Last year the New Yorker published Paul McCartney’s essay on how he came to write “Eleanor Rigby.” It turns out the main character was based on an old woman he knew in his childhood and her name was not Eleanor at all; it may have been Daisy Hawkins but that didn’t work in the scheme with Father MacKenzie (verse two), so he created “Eleanor” from Eleanor Bron, who worked on the Beatles’ Help movie, and “Rigby” after a shop sign he saw in Bristol.
Dean Wareham Has Something to Say About the City of LA
After releasing his first collection of songs written since relocating from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 2013, the songwriter known for his work with Galaxie 500 and Luna pens an open letter about assimilating to life in Echo Park. This article appears in FLOOD 12: The Los Angeles Issue. You can purchase this special 232-page print edition celebrating the people, places, music and art of LA here.
I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A., by Dean Wareham
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Dean Wareham interviews Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom
Dean Wareham and Pete Kember were both part of elemental, influential bands that started in the 1980s but stretched well beyond. Wareham was one-third of Galaxie 500 before forming Luna, and he’s also released solo material and records with Britta Phillips.
The Carnival is Over — Möistworks
by Dean Wareham I spent my earliest years in Wellington, New Zealand, where the Seekers were as big as the Beatles—really, they (and the Beatles) are the first things I remember hearing on the radio. I was two in 1965, when they released their biggest hit, “The Carnival is Over.” Years later we moved to America, where this Australian folk-pop quartet was not a big deal at all. To this day, it’s hard to explain the Seekers to Americans.
Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) Talks Mazzy Star's Seasons of Your Day
“You have to fight every day to stop censoring yourself. Compromise is beginning to feel a lack of confidence in your innermost thoughts… these innermost thoughts become less and less a part of you and once you lose them then you don’t have anything else.” — John Cassavetes In 1983 I hosted a radio show at my college radio station, WHRB in Cambridge. I drew the graveyard shift, Wednesdays 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM. It was terrible for my studies, or so I thought.
White Winter Hymnals (15 Songs For Cold Days And Long Nights) (2019, CD)
Tracklist Hide Credits 1 –Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal 2:26 2 –The Waterboys Winter Blows 3:11 3 –The Chills Pink Frost 13 5:01 4 –Thea Gilmore Listen The Snow Is Falling 3:22 5 –Galaxie 500 Snowstorm 5:10 6 –Vashti Bunyan Winter Is Blue (Immediate Version) 2:54 7 –Rachel Unthank & The Winterset January Man 3:30 8 –The Watersons Stormy Winds 3:10 9 –PG Six Come In / The Winter It Is Past 5:42 10 –Blind Willie McTell Cold Winter Day 3:07 11 –Albion Christmas Band* River 4:17 12 –Laura...
On Fire | 30, by A Head Full of Wishes
Streaming + Download Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app. Purchasable with gift card Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album The deluxe edition of On Fire | 30 contains a CD of the tribute album plus a beautiful 28 page 7" square book containing artwork and stories inspired by Galaxie 500's masterpiece. The package will also include two badges (buttons) and two postcards.
Dean Wareham on Galaxie 500's On Fire Playlist - Created by DEAN WAREHAM
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Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre announce 'Western Dreampop' album - Soundblab
Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 and Luna has announced a new collaboration with Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre. The album, Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre, is described as 'Western themed Dreampop' and will be released 26th October via Double Feature Records. Recorded at Palmetto Recordings Studio in L.A. and produced by Jason Quever (Papercuts, Beach House). The pair were joined by Britta Phillips (Luna, Dean & Britta), Anthony LaMarca (the War on Drugs) and Will Halsey (Sugarcandy Mountain).
“We’re your local Velvet Underground”: This season’s one essential box set is the “Complete Matrix Tapes”
It is December, the season for deluxe CD box sets. I’ve been making my way through some interesting ones: the Ork Records box with essential rare singles (and a superb accompanying book) from New York’s punk era; the Velvet Underground’s six-disc expanded edition of “Loaded”‘ and Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series Volume 12,” which collects alternate studio takes and demos that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966.
“When I first saw Patti Smith, I didn’t listen to another Grateful Dead record for five years”: Dean Wareham interviews Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan
Topics: Music, Yo La Tengo, Dean Wareham, Ira Kaplan, Facebook, Luna, Editor's Picks, The Cure, Stuff like that there, Chris Stamey, Big Star, steve albini, Entertainment News I first saw Yo La Tengo onstage at CBGB’s in 1986. Or maybe it was 1987, I’m not quite sure. But I brought my friend and bandmate Damon Krukowski along that night and the band made an impression on both of us.
Luna Demos 1991 | Luna
These are demo tracks from the period after Galaxie 500 broke up, recorded at Wharton Tiers' Fun City Studios in New York City, featuring Dean Wareham accompanied by drummer Jimmy Chambers (Mercury Rev) and, on "I Can't Wait" by Hamish Kilgour of the Clean. Later versions of the songs appear on Luna's Lunapark album. Luna (at this early stage Dean Wareham) was signed to Elektra by A&R man Terry Tolkin who had previously worked at Rough Trade, Touch & Go and Caroline Records.
“It’s starting to sound like Luna up in here”: Dean Wareham’s reunion tour diary
In April my band Luna played our first show in 10 years. It had ended on a snowy February night in 2005 at Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom. The rebirth took place at the Echo in Los Angeles, where three of us now reside; drummer Lee Wall, bassist (and my wife) Britta Phillips and myself.
“Get Lucky”: Rick Moody and Dean Wareham debate Daft Punk, disco and whether pleasures should be guilty
Rick Moody: It is perhaps a commentary on awards and the weakness of awards-season stuff generally that among the very worst, most cynical and utterly vapid records of the decade is the one that won album of the year at the Grammys. And yet if I had been asked to pre-select the winner, I would have drafted it. Dean Wareham: I listened to that Daft Punk album all summer long. I suppose it’s vapid, about as vapid as “Rock Around the Clock” or “Sexual Healing.” But I enjoy those songs too.
Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta) Talks Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
It’s four o’clock in the afternoon and I’ve just arrived home from Daft Punk’s offices in the heart of Hollywood, on La Brea near Sunset, where I listened to Random Access Memories on my trusty Audio Technica ATHM50 headphones. The security around this release is so intense that the only way reviewers can hear it is in person. Having just moved to Los Angeles, this enabled me to get a short history lesson: the buildings at 1416 N.
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