If Dean Wareham's own name isn't familiar, his previous projects most likely are. Galaxie 500 and Luna may never have quite reached the commercial success to match their critical acclaim, but both bands inspired a generation to follow of dream-pop wanderers and romantic rock dreamers. And both were favorites among KCMU and KEXP DJs and listeners alike. Fortunately, Dean Wareham kept busy after Luna's demise, focusing on soundtracks and collaborative work with former Luna bassist, and his wife, Britta Philips, and he returns now with his self-titled "solo debut", which forgoes none of the dreamy psych-pop, chiming guitars, atmospheric keyboards and gentle vocals that he's always been known for. Accompanied by Philips, in addition to guitarist/bassist Raymond Richards and drummer Roger Brogan, Dean Wareham stopped by KEXP recently to draw us back into his own world and it couldn't be dreamier.
The latest release from Hundred Waters is one of the biggest surprises to wash up on the musical shores this year. Two years ago, the Florida-based band became the first act to sign with Skrillex's OWSLA record label, but they take his trademark EDM-sound to celestial heights on their latest releas…
Courtney Barnett may prefer the mundane, but that doesn't mean we have to. In the songs on her debut album, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, really two early EPs mashed together, the young Australian singer-songwriter relates with hyperfocus the details of a day or of moments of average signific…
