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I’ve been a committed Luna fan for about 30 years now, starting from the day I bought a copy of Bewitched during university at the Kitchener location of The Beat Goes On when I probably should have been studying instead of cruising the used CD bins of the Kitchener-Waterloo region. And, from those very first […]
I still remember clearly the dagger to the heart in 2004 when Luna announced they were splitting up. They were my favourite band, in a simpler time when people declared such things, and I took the farewell tour as an opportunity to go on my first rock’n’roll road trip. A few days after seeing their […]
Here’s one to put on in the background while you do other things – an interview Dean Wareham gave to the Life Of The Record podcast back in 2021 about the making of Luna’s majestic 1995 album Penthouse on the occasion of the album’s 25th anniversary. Well it’s not an interview, really, but 45 minutes […]
Truly this is and odd one. One one hand, it’s a complete live 80-minute Luna show and is pretty well-shot if a bit static with three fixed cameras and a great sound mix. On the other hand, seeing the band in a gazebo beside a parking lot and a row of porta potties is a […]
It has not gone unnoticed that despite being one of my all-time bands and certainly fitting within in the genre mandates of this site, Luna have not featured in these pages very much. Partly because while they are again an ongoing concern since reuniting in 2014, they’re mostly a touring act with their only new […]
I’m just to get this out there and out of my drafts folder, and make it three Cure pieces three Fridays in a row. And they’ve all been on Fridays because, well, duh. The 30th anniversary deluxe of edition of Wish finally came out a few weeks ago – digitally and in Record Store Day […]
It was Dean Wareham’s birthday a few days ago, so here’s a hug of a tribute to the man. I’m one of those who hold his work with Luna far closer to his heart than the Galaxie 500 records, but suspect I’m in the minority with that. In any case, we’re going with the band’s […]
If there was a way to measure musical influence per second of recording, Wire’s “Outdoor Miner” would surely be in the 99th percentile. The original version, which appeared on 1978’s Chairs Missing, clocked in at an efficient 1:44 but would be one of the most-loved tracks by the massively influential outfit. Now that quotient drops […]
One of the greatest <insert term here> ever. No matter what you put in that phrase – “Songs”? “Recordings”? “Title tracks”? “Performances”? – it would be accurate. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s interlocking guitars and alternating solos are just epic and a clinic in awesome. Effusive much? Yes, but I can’t not hear that opening […]
