"Cheval Sombre" CD Cheval Sombre is the lastest release on our label,
Double Feature Records.
"Delicate, druggy, slowcore folk. Produced by Sonic Boom, with musical contributions from Dean &Britta. This CD contains tracks from his out-of-print 7” singles (issued on the UK label, Static Caravan, and a whole lot more.
Dean & Britta will play with Cheval Sombre when he opens shows for them June 4th, 5th & 6th!
"A Thousand Wildflowers" CD The Sand Pebbles are another great band recently released on our Double Feature Records label - Australian flower punk -- equal parts Buffalo Springfield & Wire. A Thousand Wild Flowers, a compilation of the best songs from three extremely rare albums by the band, is now available in our STORE.
Soundtrack EP
Includes 3 tracks from The Squid & The Whale
BAND MEMBERS:
Dean Wareham: Vocals & guitar
Britta Phillips: Vocals, bass, keys
Matt Sumrow: Wurlitzer, keyboards, guitar, vocals
Jason Lawrence: drums, bass, guitar, vocals
Lee Waters: drums, bass, guitar, vocals
Anthony LaMarca: drums, vocals, bass, guitar
Influences
New Order, Dusty Springfield, Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Jonathan Richman, Nina Simone, John Barry, The Velvet Underground, Nancy Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Spacemen 3, The Bee Gees
As the leader of slowcore pioneers Galaxie 500 and Luna, Dean Wareham crafted practically perfect atmospheric pop,
spacey lounge-act fare suitable for cocktails and candles. Wareham's book, "Black Postcards: A Memoir", was just released in paperback by Penguin Press.
Before joining Luna as a bass player, Britta starred in the movie Satisfaction with Julia Roberts, Justine Bateman and Liam Neeson, and was the singing voice of 80s cartoon character, JEM.
Over the past several years, Wareham & former Luna bandmate Britta Phillips have scored Noah Baumbach's film The Squid & The Whale and teamed up with producer Tony Visconti (Bowie, T. Rex) to record two albums, "L'Avventura," and "Back Numbers."
'Steeped in the 1960s avant-kitsch made everlastingly cool by Lee Greenwood and Nancy Sinatra—as well as Serge Gainsbourg and his conquests du jour—the singers strike a comely balance between the retro and the real. Phillips is a charming sex kitten, one whose breathy allure can swell into a shout on mock-orchestral love anthems like “Turn My Head Around,” a song so perfectly shaped it fits the vocalist like Anna Karina’s sweater.'
Dean & Britta started up their own label last year, Double Feature Records, to re-release "L'Avventura" which had gone out of print. They have now released albums by other artists they love.
Last year, Dean & Britta were commissioned by The Warhol Museum to write and perform songs to accompany 13 of Andy Warhol's screen tests.
Now on DVD,
13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests features 13 of Warhol's classic silent film portraits with songs & instrumentals by Dean & Britta. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City, this is the first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy Warhol.
Dean & Britta, with their band, will continue touring the world with the show through 2010, performing beneath projections of these 13 Silver Factory Superstars.
Though Luna may have imploded, leaving the core fans with our collective mouths hanging open, much as we did with the untimely death of Jerry Garcia, wondering where in the galaxie were were going to find such trippy music again ... it was both a joy and exhalation that Dean & Britta rose from the embers, and fanned the flames for a collective sigh of relief.
After seeing you at The Black Cat, in Washington D.C., it’s evident that you’ve settled on some choice selections from Dick’s Picks by The Grateful Dead circa 1978, and like true starship troopers embracing drugs that end in “pam,” have mastered the technique of “the jam.” While Dean & Britta don’t stretch out for twenty minutes or more, the songs echo a blistering slow-drive, neo-psychedelic, mind bending, danceable set, well suited for the return of LSD, or those lustrous Mushrooms that just never seem to go out of fashion.
Dean. Britta. Play to your core fans, others WILL find you, life goes one, just visit any street corner in New York City to reenforce this fact. We’re all gonna’ live forever as long as you and your band are walking the planet.
Dean, I recently finished reading Black Postcards and just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. I've been a long time fan of Galaxie 500, then Luna and love the music you and Britta have put out. Thanks for the book and take care.
Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site!
LOVE your music ! Great idea with using Warhol's screen tests as the setting/background to an album. (If you listened) I hope you enjoyed our little songs even half as much as I've enjoyed yours. CC-
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