Dean Wareham
Background information
Birth name	Dean Wareham
Born	August 1, 1963 (age 43)
Genre(s)	Shoegaze, Indie Rock
Occupation(s)	Musician,Songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar
Years active	1987-
Label(s)	Various
Associated acts	Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta, The Pastels
Website	http://www.deanandbritta.com/

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Biography

Dean Wareham (born August 1, 1963, Wellington, New Zealand) is a musician who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. He left Galaxie 500 to found the band Luna in 1991. Since Luna's breakup in 2005, Wareham has released albums with fellow Luna bandmate (and wife) Britta Phillips. Wareham and Phillips have also written score pieces for the Noah Baumbach film The Squid and the Whale and the Morgan J. Freeman film Just Like the Son. August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... For other uses, see Wellington (disambiguation). ... Album cover for On Fire Galaxie 500 was a seminal slowcore guitar band from the late 1980s. ... Luna was a Dream Pop/Indie Pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood (Demeski formerly of The Feelies and Harwood formerly of New Zealand band The Chills). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Britta Phillips (born June 11, 1963, Boyne City, Michigan) is an American musician. ... An independent film writer-director, Noah Baumbach was born in 1969 and raised in Brooklyn. ... The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. ... Morgan J. Freeman (born December 5, 1969 in Long Beach, California, USA) is an American film director. ... Just Like the Son is a poignant American feature film written and directed by Morgan J. Freeman (“Hurricane Streets”) that chronicles a petty thief’s mentoring of an apparent orphan, which takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to...

A 1997 studio project called Cagney & Lacee consisted of Wareham (Cagney) on Instruments and Claudia Silver (Lacee) providing vocals. The album, "Six Feet of Chain", consisted of cover versions.

He has collaborated with Stephin Merritt, singing vocals on a song for The 6ths entitled "Falling Out of Love With You". He also collaborated with Japanese band Shonen Knife providing vocals on the song "Under My Pillow" for the 2006 album "Genki Shock!" Stephin Merritt (born 1966) is an American singer-songwriter based in New York City. ... The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. ... The all-female band Shonen Knife (少年ナイフ, Shōnen Naifu; lit. ... Genki Shock! is an pop-punk album by Shonen Knife, released in 2006 (2005 in Japan) on Glue Factory. ...

Galaxie 500

Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University. In their early years, Krukowski didn't own a drum kit, so he borrowed one from his Harvard classmate Conan O'Brien, who'd bought a kit but had recently given up playing it. This drum kit can be heard on many of Galaxie 500's early recordings. In interviews on the Galaxie 500 DVD "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste", The band's name comes from a Ford car of the 1960s, the Ford Galaxie 500. Galaxie 500's records were released in the US and UK on the independent Rough Trade label. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Damon Krukowski is an American musician and publisher. ... Naomi Yang is one half of the duo Damon and Naomi and one of the founding members of the seminal band Galaxie 500. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. One of the eight Ivies, it was founded in 1636. ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963[2]) is an Emmy-winning American television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... Ford Motor Company, (Fomoco on mechanical parts), is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker based on vehicle sales in 2005. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... 1966 Ford Galaxie 7 Litre Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ford Galaxie For other uses, see Galaxie (disambiguation). ... Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England. ...

Galaxie 500 leveraged fairly minimal instrumental technique with intense atmospherics, provided by producer Mark Kramer, and their distinctive sound bore an influence beyond the small audience for their independently released albums. Wareham cites the Spacemen 3 as another key inspiration. With Kramer's live sound production at the mixing board at the band's every gig, the sound and the increasingly loyal audience grew with each release until Wareham quit the band in 1991 to form Luna. This article is an autobiography, and may not conform to Wikipedias NPOV policy. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Spacemen 3 were an English space rock band who formed in 1982 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to Acid House eras. ... Luna was a Dream Pop/Indie Pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood (Demeski formerly of The Feelies and Harwood formerly of New Zealand band The Chills). ...

Luna

Luna was a Dream Pop/Indie Pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood (Demeski formerly of The Feelies and Harwood formerly of New Zealand band The Chills). Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 784 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (850 × 650 pixel, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 784 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (850 × 650 pixel, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, and A.R. Kane (to whom the term has been attributed) began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Album cover for On Fire Galaxie 500 was a seminal slowcore guitar band from the late 1980s. ... Justin Harwood is a New Zealand-born bass guitarist notable for his work with two indie rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s, The Chills, Luna, and Tuatara where he worked alongside New Zealands Martin Phillipps (The Chills), Australian-born Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna), and Peter Buck (REM... The Feelies were an alternative rock band from Haledon, New Jersey. ... Taking a leaf out of the Beatles Help!, the Chills signal COLD in semaphore on the cover of their first studio album. ...

The original line-up was expanded with the addition of guitarist Sean Eden for their second album, 1994's Bewitched. Lee Wall replaced Demeski on drums in time for 1997's Pup Tent, and Britta Phillips of Belltower (also known as the singing voice of animated character Jem) joined when bassist Justin Harwood departed in 2000. Phillips and Wareham eventually became romantically involved and married. They now release records under the moniker “Dean & Britta” Jem is an American animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run syndication. ...

In 1992, Wareham signed a demo deal with Elektra Records and recorded a number of tracks with Mercury Rev drummer Jimmy Chambers. Some of these recordings were later released on the Anesthesia single on No.6 Records in the US and Mint Tea in the UK under the name Dean Wareham. Mercury Rev are an American rock music group, formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. ...

Elektra were suitably impressed and Dean signed a deal and started pulling together a band. He first contacted Justin Harwood who Dean had met while Justin was playing with The Chills and they recruited drummer Byron Guthrie, the trio recorded some more demos (produced by Dave Fridmann) and played a couple of live dates augmented by Mercury Rev guitarist Grasshopper. Guthrie was then replaced by former Feelies drummer Stanley Demeski and this line up recorded the first album Lunapark, produced by Fred Maher and released by Elektra under the name Luna² to avoid confusion with a new-age musician who was already using the name Luna (later an agreement was reached which allowed the band to use the name Luna). Taking a leaf out of the Beatles Help!, the Chills signal COLD in semaphore on the cover of their first studio album. ... Dave Fridmann is a musician and record producer. ... Families Superfamily: Tridactyloidea Cylindrachaetidae Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae Superfamily: Tetrigoidea Tetrigidae Superfamily: Eumastacoidea Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae Superfamily: Pneumoroidea Pneumoridae Superfamily: Pyrgomorphoidea Pyrgomorphidae Superfamily: Acridoidea Acrididae Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae Tristiridae Superfamily: Tanaoceroidea Tanaoceridae Superfamily: Trigonopterygoidea Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects... Infocom used the term feelies to refer to the extra content included with the boxed versions of their interactive fiction computer games. ... As the first musical outing of Dean Wareham since the disbanding of Galaxie 500, Lunapark set forth the new musical directions of Wareham and embraced a musical sound that would continue to evolve throughout Lunas tenure. ... New Age is a broad movement of late 20th century and contemporary Western culture, characterised by an individual eclectic approach to spiritual exploration. ...

In the summer of 1993 the band landed the prestigious slot supporting the reformed Velvet Underground on their European tour after which they set about recording their second album. Bewitched was recorded in New York City and co-produced by the band with Victor Van-Vugt. Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison played guitar on two tracks. The album was released in 1994. The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... // Track listing California (All the Way) (4:15) Tiger Lily (4:46) Friendly Advice (6:33) Bewitched (4:45) This Time Around (3:29) Great Jones Street (3:36) Going Home (5:26) Into the Fold (3:12) I Know You Tried (3:18) Sleeping Pill (5:52) Credits Personnel... Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ...

Despite producing solid material and being popular on the indie music circuit, Luna experienced issues and/or disputes with their record labels. One Label went bankrupt, taking the rights to and thus leaving The Days of Our Nights (1999) out of print. Nevertheless, the band labored on to release three more albums. They announced plans to breakup in 2004, and played their final concert at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on February 28, 2005. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Selected Discography

External Links

• Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips Official website
• Comprehensive fan site

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