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Athens Popfest 2018 lineup: Guided by Voices, Mummies, Ex Hex & more

2163 days ago
Brooklyn VeganThe 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. Continue reading… more info

Britta Phillips playing free NYC show with Dean Wareham before opening for Luna

2880 days ago
Brooklyn VeganAfter 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... Continue re... more info

Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic review – elegant and woozily seductive

2889 days ago
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

Stream Britta Phillips Luck Or Magic

2895 days ago
StereogumBritta 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

Luna released 1991 demos to help raise money for Terry Tolkin, the man who signed them (and is very ill)

3196 days ago
Brooklyn VeganWhen 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

Luna Offer Up Earliest Demos To Benefit A&R Man Who Signed Them

3196 days ago
StereogumEx-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

Shorties (The Importance of Physical Bookstores, The Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time, and more)

3206 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyOn 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

Luna Add Reunion Show In Brooklyn Next Month

3236 days ago
StereogumDean 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

Luna announce North American reunion tour (3 NYC shows)

3248 days ago
Brooklyn VeganLuna 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

Watch 6 Songs From Luna’s First Concert In 10 Years

3272 days ago
StereogumThe 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

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