Galaxie 500 founder and Luna frontman, Dean Wareham, has written a book called Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance. Street date will be March 13. I found sound information about it on Amazon.com that I thought was worth sharing:
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 Kitchen Confidential written by a different species of front man. Black Postcards 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?
“Here is both a personal history and a cultural history. For years, Dean Wareham has made music of beguiling intimacy that draws you into mysteries, dreams and romances. Now he has written a captivating book that does the same.” - Joe Levy, Executive Editor, Rolling Stone
“Dean Wareham has already given the world some of the greatest music of the last many years, and now he offers us this-part blueprint of the creative process, part punk rock field guide, part map of America, part dreamscape of despair, part song.” - Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“I have always been a fan of Dean Wareham and have worked with him and Luna many times. I love reading the thoughts of frontmen. I think it’s a great read for the fan of adventure.” - Lou Reed
Click here to pre-order Black Postcards.
MP3: Galaxie 500 - “Strange”
MP3: Luna - “Sideshow by the Seashore”
