Black Postcards
Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance Dean Wareham,
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
ISBN: 1594201552
DDC: 782.42166092
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-03-13
Summary:
A bewitching account of the lures, torments, and rewards of making
and performing some of the most interesting music in some of the most
iconic indie bands (Galaxie 500, Luna) in recent memory What do you
do if you're an outsider with a funny accent coming of age in alien
bastions of privilege in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts?
If you're a certain sort of kid, you front a rock band. And if you're
Dean Wareham, you end up founding a rock band, Galaxie 500, that
continues to enjoy what can be called notable postmortem cult
success. And then you start a new band, Luna, which enjoys even more
spectacular, albeit still "cult" success (which means they don't play
your songs on mainstream radio and you never crack MTV), until, some
fifteen years after it began, that band reaches its natural end too.
And then you write a book about it all: an unsentimental journey
through the great, world-wide indiemusic landscape. A wickedly honest
and unsparing account of a journey through the music world-the
artistry and the hustle, the effortless success and the high living
as well as the bitter pills and self-inflicted wounds-by a brilliant
and fearless participant-observer, 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?
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