LargeHeartedBoy — Fresh Air interviews Claire Messud about her new novel The Woman Upstairs. "As a reader since very early I have found myself drawn to rants," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I was in my senior year of high school... more info

Consequence of Sound — Britta Philips also releasing a solo album, collaborating with Wareham. more info

Chorus.fm — Damon Krukowski of *Galaxie 500 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxie_500)* has written a column for Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8993-the-cloud/) discussing the business of royalties since releasing the band's first LP in 1988 t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dean Wareham at Maxwell's in 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) As mentioned, Dean Wareham is touring this summer and coming to NYC for a 'Galaxie 500 show' at Le Poisson Rouge on July 20. Since posting that show, LPR's website... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dean at Maxwell's in 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) Like he's done in years past, Dean Wareham has scheduled a few 'Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500' shows for 2012. One of those shows is in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge... more info

Guardian Music — Which is the greatest autobiography by a musician? Six readers tell us their thoughtsEarlier this week we asked readers to tell us about their favourite musical autobiographies. Here are a few of the responses we received.Scott Homiak on A Drink with... more info

KEXP Seattle — Galaxie 500 casts such a long shadow in the indie rock universe (including but not limited to the long career of Damon and Naomi) that it’s easy to forget that they were together for only a few years and produced only three studio albums, culminati... more info

Stereogum — So many covers today! Here’s another one: Ryan Adams, playing live at Boston’s Orpheum this weekend, doing a lovely solo-piano cover of Galaxie 500′s classic “Blue Thunder,” a sort of holy text for all the dreampop and slowcore that followe... more info

Altsounds — On Sunday, December 11th at 7:30 p.m. Damon & Naomi are to play a show at the Whirled Cinema - Arch 260 - Hardess Street in London. Damon (drums) and Naomi (bass & occasional vocals) started playing music together in Galaxie 500, in Boston back in ... more info

Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be attending this week, and tell us about any live music you've seen recentlySince the dawn of photography 200 years ago, somewhere in the region of 3.5trn photos have been taken. How many of those pictures we... more info