AHFoW (slight return)

 

Sunday Times review of Damon & Naomi's False Beats and True Hearts
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‎"A quarter of a century ago, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang sold the world that pervasive slowcore guitar sound with Galaxie 500, then split to work as a duo with subtler methods. They have been peddling diaphanous acid folk-pop for two de...
cades now, bowing their heads patiently as it billows in and out of fashion, and their ninth album is among their best. The quicksilver guitar of Michio Kurihara, from the Japanese psychedelic collective Ghost, drips magic dust over lightly jazzy drums, arrestingly inexact harmonies and cautious, languid melodies that uncoil like cats in the sun."

★★★★

False Beats and True Hearts is released soon on Broken Horse records

 

Dean & Britta "play Galaxie 500" for KEXP

 Dean & Britta will be playing a short set of "five or six" Galaxie 500 songs live on KEXP's KEXP at CMJ2010 on the 20th October. The event is being broadcast from the Ace Hotel in New York City at 12pm EST and you can listen live on  KEXP.com (check what time that is where you live) - no idea if it's something that you can go along to.
 

Audio: Happy 70th to John Lennon

 In honour of John Lennon's 70th birthday:

Here's Galaxie 500 covering Rain by The Beatles from a show in Germany in 1989
MP3: Galaxie 500 - Rain (live - 1989-12-02: Forum, Enger, Germany)

And here's Luna covering Hold On John for KCRW in 1994
MP3: Luna - Hold On, John (live radio - 1994-04-04: KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA)

Here's John & Yoko having a bed in (they remembered to invite people)

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Happy birthday John - peace and love

 

Damon & Naomi's October update

 The latest update from Damon & Naomi is short and sweet - it mentions their two upcoming US shows at the Homegrown II festival in Jamaica Plain, MA and with Masaki Batoh in Brooklyn. Also the news that the songs for the next album are "in place".

They'll be heading to Europe in December - keep an eye on the A Head Full of Wishes upcoming shows page (there are a couple of Euro dates there already and more will be added as soon as I hear of them).

 

Dean Wareham playing at the Boston Book Festival

 Dean Wareham will be playing at The Book Revue: An Evening of Music and Words as part of the Boston Book Festival. The event takes place at the John Hancock Hall in Boston on the 16th October. The show also includes Kristin Hersh and Joe Penrice amongst others. Tickets are $10 and available from the Book Festival website.

* Details on the A Head Full of Wishes wiki
* Post on HubArts.com

 

Video: Dean plays Galaxie 500 (and Luna!) in Atlanta

 Here are a couple of videos from Dean & Britta's show in Atlanta on Friday night. You can download the whole show from Dimeadozen (registration required)


 

Video: Dean & Britta in Pittsburgh

 Here are some videos of Dean & Britta's performance at the Haiti benefit show in Pittsburgh on Friday...

I'll Keep it With Mine

Blue Thunder

Indian Summer

And they played You Turn My Head Around for the first time in a while which gives me an excuse to post this slideshow...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/677374@N21/pool/show/

 

Photos: Dean & Britta live in Pittsburgh

 Here's a lovely set of pictures from Dean and Britta's performance at a benefit for the Haiti earthquake at Ellis Armory in Pittsburgh last Friday.

(via stupid blue on flickr)
 

Dean & Britta opening for Belle & Sebastian in Boston

Dean & Britta are taking the "Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500" show back home to Boston on 15th October when they open for Belle & Sebastian at the Wang Theatre. Be there sharp at 8pm if you want to catch them!

 

Video/Audio: Dean & Britta and The Fire Escapes

I just came across this version of Incandescent Innocent, from 13 Most Beautiful, mashed up with The Fire Escapes song My Dreams are like Diamonds (with a bit of The Velvet Underground's Heroin thrown in) and sung by Lucy Pullin of The Fire Escapes... it is rather lovely:

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