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Black Postcards

Dean Wareham

2008352 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2008
first published
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101030554
  • 2009Penguin Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780143115489
  • 2008Penguin Press HC, The · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9781594201554

Dean Wareham s seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted cult following and extolled by rock critics. Now he brings us the blunt, heartbreaking, and wickedly charismatic account of his personal journey through the music worldthe artistry and the hustle, the effortless success and the high living, as well as the bitter pills and self-inflicted wounds. It captures, unsparingly, what has happened to the entire ecosystem of popular music over a time of radical change, when categories such as indie and alternative meant nothing to those creating the music, but everything to the major labels willing to pay for it. Black Postcards is a must-have for Warehams many fans, anyone who has ever been in a band, or the listeners who have taken an interest in the indie rock scene over the last twenty years.

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