The Galaxie 500 & Luna frontman is hitting the Press Room in support of his brand new record.
Dean Wareham w/ Escape-Ism
Mon 6/2
6pm doors/7pm show
18+ | $20 adv./$25 day of
Dean Wareham was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He moved to New York City as a teenager in 1977, and attended the high school where he met his future Galaxie 500 bandmates. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies. In 1987 he founded Galaxie 500, who released three albums, all produced by Kramer and released on Rough Trade.
2024 saw the release of new compilation of B-sides and previously unreleased tracks: Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 . Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet (including Penthouse, on Rolling Stone’s list of best albums of the 90s), followed by three albums as Dean & Britta (with his wife Britta Phillips), and two solo albums. His most recent release, also on Carpark Records, was a holiday album in collaboration with Britta and Sonic Boom.
His memoir Black Postcards is a chronicle of his years in indie rock and was published by Penguin. He has also co-composed soundtracks and acted in several films for Noah Baumbach, most recently White Noise.
That’s the Price of Loving Me is the fourth solo album by Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta), and his first album with producer Kramer since 1990’s This Is Our Music. Recorded in Los Angeles with Britta Phillips on bass and vocals, Anthony LaMarca (the War on Drugs) and Roger Brogan on drums. Eight new Wareham compositions plus covers of Nico and Mayo Thompson. Dean Wareham will be touring Europe and the USA in April and May, 2025
Escape-Ism is the latest project from musician and author Ian Svenonius (the Makeup, Chain & the Gang, Nation of Ulysses). Their new album, Charge of the Light Brigade, is out now on Dischord Records.