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  • Galaxie 500’s ‘Copenhagen’ live album to receive 2LP vinyl reissue for Record Store Day

    Galaxie 500’s ‘Copenhagen’ live album to receive 2LP vinyl reissue for Record Store Day

    • 8 March 2020
    • Album News, Vinyl
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    The live album recorded at Galaxie 500’s final European show — Dec. 1, 1990 in Copenhagen — will be reissued in a special 2LP vinyl edition for Record Store Day, with its nine songs stretched over three sides and a special etching filling out the fourth side of the vinyl. Full details right here.

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  • Watch: Rose McGowan stars in video for Luna’s cover of The Cure’s ‘Fire in Cairo’

    Watch: Rose McGowan stars in video for Luna’s cover of The Cure’s ‘Fire in Cairo’

    • 21 August 2017
    • Video
    • 0 comments

    Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — today debuted a Rose McGowan-starring video for its new cover of The Cure’s “Fire in Cairo,” which will appear on its new covers album A Sentimental Education, due out next month. Watch it here.

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  • Watch: Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500’s ‘Fourth of July’ on the Fourth of July

    Watch: Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500’s ‘Fourth of July’ on the Fourth of July

    • 4 July 2017
    • Video
    • 1 comment

    In a bit of holiday synchronicity, former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham today shared video of himself and some fellow musicians performing his old band’s melancholy 1990 song “Fourth of July” on the Fourth of July itself (“4th of July on 4th of July,” he wrote). Watch the performance, and the original video, here.

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  • Dean Wareham to play Galaxie 500’s ‘Today’ in San Francisco — ‘one time only’ performance

    Dean Wareham to play Galaxie 500’s ‘Today’ in San Francisco — ‘one time only’ performance

    • 10 June 2017
    • Concerts
    • 2 comments

    Dean Wareham will step out of his ongoing Luna reunion next month to celebrate his earlier band with a one-off performance of Galaxie 500’s 1988 debut album Today in San Francisco — a concert Wareham is calling a “one time only” event. Tickets are on sale now for the July concert.

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  • Luna covers The Cure, David Bowie, Mercury Rev on new album — hear first single

    Luna covers The Cure, David Bowie, Mercury Rev on new album — hear first single

    • 6 June 2017
    • Album News, Digital Music, Reunions
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    Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — will put out its first new music since 2004 in September with the simultaneous release of a 10-song covers album called A Sentimental Education and a 6-song instrumental EP titled A Place of Greater Safety.

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  • Vintage Video: Galaxie 500 drifts through a 40-minute set at an Atlanta club in 1990

    Vintage Video: Galaxie 500 drifts through a 40-minute set at an Atlanta club in 1990

    • 16 February 2017
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 1 comment

    For our first post-hiatus installment of Vintage Video, we spotlight a band that, at least in its live incarnation, is sadly underrepresented on YouTube: dream-pop icons Galaxie 500. So here’s a 7-song, 40-minute set that finds Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang performing material from 1988’s Today and 1989’s On Fire.

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  • Luna to play first show in 10 years this spring in L.A., with more U.S. dates in the fall

    Luna to play first show in 10 years this spring in L.A., with more U.S. dates in the fall

    • 9 February 2015
    • Reunions, Tour Dates
    • 4 comments

    Last fall, Dean Wareham announced plans to reunite his post-Galaxie 500 band Luna for the first time in a decade for shows this coming spring in Spain. Today, though, he followed that up with big news for U.S. fans: The band’s reunion will open with an April 13 show in Los Angeles, with more American dates this fall.

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  • Stream: Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, ‘Love is Colder Than Death’ — off upcoming mini-LP

    Stream: Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, ‘Love is Colder Than Death’ — off upcoming mini-LP

    • 27 August 2013
    • Digital Music, Single News
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    Dean Wareham, former frontman of dreampop favorites Galaxie 500 and Luna, today released a new solo single — “Love is Colder Than Death” b/w “She Want Walking in the Rain” — in advance of a mini-LP he’s prepping for release this fall, according to Pitchfork, which premiered the single.

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  • New releases: Specials live DVD, Gary Numan vinyl box set, Dean & Britta’s Warhol CD

    New releases: Specials live DVD, Gary Numan vinyl box set, Dean & Britta’s Warhol CD

    • 26 July 2010
    • New Releases
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    This week’s new releases include the U.S. version of The Specials’ ’30th Anniversary Tour’ live DVD; Gary Numan and Tubeway Army’s 4LP ’78/79 Box Set’; and Dean & Britta’s ’13 Most Beautiful… Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests,’ featuring ex-Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham.

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  • Additional ‘Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500’ concerts scheduled through December

    Additional ‘Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500’ concerts scheduled through December

    • 16 June 2010
    • Album News, Tour Dates
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    That concert in Atlanta featuring ex-frontman Dean Wareham ‘performing the Galaxie 500 songbook’ that we told you about last month won’t be a one-off after all: Wareham and his Dean & Britta bandmates have announced a scattered string of such shows between August and December.

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  • Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500: Special one-off concert set for Atlanta this fall

    Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500: Special one-off concert set for Atlanta this fall

    • 7 May 2010
    • Concerts
    • 4 comments

    Former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham will commemorate the recent re-release of the seminal dream-pop act’s catalog with a special one-off concert in Atlanta this fall at which he will be ‘performing the Galaxie 500 songbook.’

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