false 1978035 2 <b>A bewitching account of the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing some of the most interesting music in some of the most iconic indie bands (Galaxie 500, Luna) in recent memory</b> <br/><br/> What do you do if you're an outsider with a funny accent coming of age in alien bastions of privilege in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts? If you're a certain sort of kid, you front a rock band. And if you're Dean Wareham, you end up founding a rock band, Galaxie 500, that continues to enjoy what can be called notable postmortem cult success. And then you start a new band, Luna, which enjoys even more spectacular, albeit still "cult" success (which means they don't play your songs on mainstream radio and you never crack MTV), until, some fifteen years after it began, that band reaches its natural end too. And then you write a book about it all: an unsentimental journey through the great, world-wide indiemusic landscape. <br/><br/> A wickedly honest and unsparing account of a journey through the music world-the artistry and the hustle, the effortless success and the high living as well as the bitter pills and self-inflicted wounds-by a brilliant and fearless participant-observer, Black Postcards is absurdly rich in rewards for anyone who was ever in a band or just took an interest in indie music over the past twenty years-a sort of <i>Kitchen Confidential</i> written by a different species of front man. <i>Black Postcards</i> also captures what has happened, for good and ill, to the entire ecosystem of popular music over this time of radical change, a time when categories like "indie" and "alternative" started to morph beyond all recognition. Rolling Stone called Dean Wareham's band Luna "the greatest band you've never heard of " and named its album Penthouse one of its 100 greatest rock albums of our time. Black Postcards is also about what it's like to have to pretend to be civil as you answer the same helpful question over and over again, "Why aren't you guys more famous?" Why indeed? 1981400 13 3 2008 Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance total:297|5:50|4:143|3:81|2:20|1:3| 297 1108 506 104 5 2 false false Thu Apr 24 20:06:33 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 22:12:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 16:02:33 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:06:28 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING interview with Black Postcards author Dean Wareham:

Dean Wareham, singer and primary songwriter for Galaxie 500 and later Luna, has written a different kind of rock story — the indie-rock underdog’s life story. Sure, there’s sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, b...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 17:54:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 18:13:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 23:43:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 01:46:50 -0700 2008
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A few things I wish I could say to Wareham:

1) I don't have a lot of patience for people who leave their family when they have a small child. I wish you had giv...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 05:57:35 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 19:13:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 23:11:07 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 09:28:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 31 14:39:02 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 15:07:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 16:14:36 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 18:51:40 -0700 2008 Dean Wareham, former lead singer of the bands Galaxie 500 and Luna toured multiple countries over the course of the last two-plus decades. Now he's committed to paper a compelling set of his own recollections in Black Postcards.

I grew up on Galaxie 500. they were ‘the’ band fo...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1978035