Brooklyn Vegan — The 2018 edition of Athens Popfest takes place August 8-11 in Athens, GA and the lineup also includes Man or Astroman?, Dean Wareham, His Name Is Alive, Essex Green, Elf Power, and more.
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Brooklyn Vegan — After more than 30 years in music, Britta Phillips of Luna and Dean & Britta (both with her husband Dean Wareham) released her solo debut. Luck or Magic came out last month and to mark the occasion Britta will be playing a free show at...
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Guardian Music — (Double Feature)The formula that the bassist Britta Phillips and her guitarist husband (and former Luna bandmate) Dean Wareham hit upon for their three albums together as Dean & Britta – sumptuous pop arrangements and an even mix of astutely c... more info
Stereogum — Britta Phillips started off her career as the singing voice of Jem, the ’80s cartoon-fantasy pop star. Then she played bass in Luna. That’s a pretty wide swing! More recently, she’s been half of Dean & Britta with her husband, the former Galaxi... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — When Galaxie 500 broke up in 1991, Dean Wareham signed to Elektra where his friend Terry Tolkin was doing A&R. He made a five-song demo with Mercury Rev's Jimmy Chamberlain and The Clean's Hamish Kilgour playing drums... all songs... more info
Stereogum — Ex-Galaxie 500 leader Dean Wareham’s dream-pop band Luna released their debut album, Lunapark, in 1992 on Elektra Records, and continued working with the label on their next four records. Terry Tolkin, the vice president of A&R at Elektra who origi... more info
LargeHeartedBoy — On the importance of physical bookstores. Rolling Stone listed the greatest prog rock albums of all time. Authors discussed fatherhood at Biographile. Dean Wareham shared a Luna reunion tour diary at Salon. Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai interviewed To... more info
Stereogum — Dean Wareham’s Post-Galaxie 500 experimental dream pop group Luna already announced their reunion and a slew of North American tour dates. The band toured Spain in April, but prior to a recent Northside Festival listing and a one-off L.A. show, all... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Luna in Spain in April Luna, the band Dean Wareham formed after the breakup of Galaxie 500, are reunited this year, and they've already toured Europe and played a single LA show. Now a lengthier North American tour has finally... more info
Stereogum — The gauzy New York guitar band Luna never seemed to burst with importance, the way Luna frontman Dean Wareham’s previous band Galaxie 500 did. But Luna were just a ridiculously good band in ways that never really demanded attention. If you ever saw... more info