Longtime Everybody Taste favorites Luna have digitally remastered and released the LPs Romantica, Rendezvous and the 2002 EP Close Cover Before Striking over on Bandcamp . Word on the street is the band may even try and repress a few of these classic records onto vinyl (we've got our fingers crossed over here). If you're a fan of the band's dreamy and mesmerizing pop music, former bandmates Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have also been keeping busy as the duo Dean & Britta with the acclaimed and spectacular 13 Most Beautiful: Songs [...]
Anyone who cares to can take a guess in the comments at which Luna releases provided each of the letters of Happy New Year above Hope 2012 brings to you all that you could want and more... for me that includes a gig or two by each of my favourite duos and some new material by Dean and/or Britta (I'd add Damon & Naomi in there but expecting an album every year might seem a little greedy). Luna's new years eve shows in (or around NYC) became a regular as did their [...]
MP3: Damon & Naomi - White Christmas MP3: Dean & Britta - Old Toy Trains (original 2004 mix) (via Box.net) MP3: Dean & Britta - He's Coming Home / Old Toy Trains (2006 remix) (via Box.net) MP3: Luna - Egg Nog (via Box.net) 73: Dean & Britta - He's Coming Home / Old Toy Trains MP3: Galaxie 500 - Listen The Snow is Falling (live in San Francisco 1990) (via Box.net) MP3: [...]
The Dean & Britta online store is having a holiday sale which runs until the end of the year. All CDs are priced at $10.99 and includes some copies of the out of print Luna albums released on Jetset - these have recently been reissued for download only but some copies of the Jetset releases have been tracked down. Also available are some copies of the 73 single of Speedbumps released on German indie Little Teddy in 2004.
One of my college roommates introduced me to Luna . Our copy of Bewitched was worn out in a matter of months. From there it was on to Penthouse and eventually I went all the way back to Galaxie 500 . This was the start of a beautiful friendship with the music of Dean Wareham. Been trying to get my hands on a decent live Luna show to share here, preferably one which includes "23 Minutes in Brussels" [...]
Luna on World Cafe in October 1997 cave into the DJ's requests to perform that song from the ad... Justin seems accommodating... Dean less so - but somehow gives in anyway Audio: Luna - California (All The Way) radio session 1997 (via Box.net) ... and if California is your favourite Luna song you can go and vote for it in the 2011 Survey - or if it's not you can vote for something else! Vote in the 2011 A Head Full of Wishes survey
guest mix: weird fall from a. horton of FM TOWNS (part of the eepsociety collective ) 01. kavinsky & lovefoxx - nightcall 02. marc bolan and t.rex - teenage dream 03. leonard cohen - iodine 04. the aluminum group - two lights 05. prince - lady cab driver 06. lou reed - make up 07. joy electric - how friends are made, then lost 08. luna - moon palace (live) 09. blur - top man [...]
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Tina Tyrell It's saying something when Annie Clark's looks rank a ways down the list of things she has going for her as St. Vincent . If we're keeping score, then you'd have to put her angelic, crystalline coo of a voice and virtuosic, elliptical guitar skills right at the top (though which of the two should come first is grist for hours of debate). And of course neither would be anything without her songwriting acumen, which nimbly treads the terrain between odd and accessible, between abstract and evocative. But underpinning all of [...]
Luna may have broken up in 2005 but their last three releases (20022s Romantica , 20022s Close Cover Before Striking (EP), 20052s Rendezvou s) have just been issued digitally on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody and Bandcamp and all come with bonus tracks. Here's the previously unreleased (I think) cover of Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" which can be found on Close Cover Before Striking . Dancing Days (bonus track) by Luna
Luna's last two albums Romantica and Rendezvous, as well as the mini-album Close Cover Before Striking have all been reissues in digital form with previously unreleased tracks 2002 album Romantica comes with the never released track "Mystic Rattlers" and alternate versions of "Lovedust" and "Renée is Crying." Buy Romantica on iTunes 2002 mini-album Close Cover Before Striking comes with the addition of a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" as well as Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" that was previously the b-side of the Lovedust promo single. Buy Close Cover [...]
This particular podcast was somewhat railroaded by two different things, and hence has very little of the new music/inbox harvesting stuff you may have come to expect from Song, by Toad. Firstly, I went to see Jeffrey Lewis on Wednesday. He was supported by Seth Faergolzia from Dufus and covered 2+2=? by the Bob Seger System, which explains two of the songs. Secondly, I went out to visit a couple of pals on Thursday night. That resulted in an epic Pearl Jam-a-thon, so I was looking for some Pearl Jam to play today, only to happen [...]
Terry Tolkin and Dean Wareham ( picture by Howard Thompson used without permission) Going through my hard drives last night I seem to have misplaced a folder of "Dean Wareham" recordings (including the phone message Dean left me from Brussels in 1997!) - also missing were some of the recordings Dean made with Jimmy Chambers and Hamish Kilgour after getting a demo deal with Elektra shortly after Galaxie 500 split. A few of these recordings made their way onto a single (and subsequently onto the Speed Dating compilation that [...]
Today is the 7th anniversary of the great man's passing. Spend the day considering just how important he was to music - no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to overestimate that impact! Here he is introducing Galaxie 5002s Listen The Snow is Falling (mp3 via Box.net) - this has been lifted from the very excellent Keeping It Peel podcast . Previously: Here's last year's John Peel Day post from where you can download the [...]
Name : Ava Luna Location : Brooklyn, USA Genre : Alt-Soul-Rock Described in 5 words A Six Piece Soul Gem. For Fans of : Sly and The Family Stone, Toro y Moi Website : Bandcamp
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Dirty Projectors, Man Man, Pattern Is Movement "Ava Luna - Clips" What's so good? Ava Luna is not a band who's easy to define. That doesn't mean they don't ooze incredible energy and talent. They've got soul, funk, and tons of groove... and they're bringing it all at full force. I'll start off with saying [...]
One of the great and greatly missed Sterling Morrison 's final appearances on record was playing on a couple of tracks on Luna's second album Bewitched , one of the tracks he appeared on "Great Jones Street" was also recorded for the syndicated radio show Modern Rock Live. This version of the track never got a commercial release but did turn up on a 1994 Modern Rock Live promo compilation . I believe this version was recorded some time in 1994, Sterling passed away on August 30th 1995. From a 2008 interview for Things [...]
photos & videos by Jessica Amaya Twin Sister @ Mercury Lounge Twin Sister played the second show of their current tour at Mercury Lounge in NYC on Thursday night (9/29), with Ava Luna (Factory Floor played the same venue earlier that night). Here are some pictures and videos. They continue below... Continue reading "Twin Sister & Ava Luna @ Mercury Lounge (pics & video)" at BrooklynVegan.com
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