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

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

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Twerps' new album, Range Anxiety, will be out next week via Merge/Chapter Music and it's one of my favorite 2015 records (so far). This is rambly/shambly indie rock in the grand tradition of The Clean, Galaxie 500,... more info

Stereogum — Grand Vapids hail from Athens, where they’ve honed a droning take on indie rock in the lineage of Galaxie 500, Low, and fellow Georgians Deerhunter. “Kiln,” from the band’s Drew Vandenberg-produced debut album Guarantees, is a fine demonstrat... more info

KEXP Seattle — If Dean Wareham‘s own name isn’t familiar, his previous projects most likely are. Galaxie 500 and Luna may never have quite reached the commercial success to match their critical acclaim, but both bands inspired a generation to follow of dream-po... more info

Stereogum — Cheekily named Welsh indie-pop band Joanna Gruesome’s first original release since last year’s debut album Weird Sister — that is, not counting their great Galaxie 500 cover — will be a split 12-inch with Bristol rockers Trust Fund featuring ... more info

NME — The former Galaxie 500 man will play four dates on a UK tour this month more info

Stereogum — By sheer coincidence, Stereogum just published a Galaxie 500 feature the same day Marissa Nadler released a video directed by Galaxie member Naomi Yang. Yang combined footage by French artist Bernard Faucon with striking closeups of Nadler to create ... more info

Stereogum — If rock-critic clichés never existed, Galaxie 500 would have had to invent them. Named after a classic model Ford that none of the band members had ever actually driven, Galaxie 500 — vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham, bassist/vocalist Naomi Yang, a... more info