13 MB is now available for digital download on our webstore as well as iTunes, Amazon, etc…

Order the CD from our website and receive a free 11″ x 17″ poster

MORE “Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500″ shows added!

Nov. 15 - Vancouver, BC
Nov. 16 - Seattle, WA
Dec. 10-12 - ATP’s Bowlie Festival 2
Butlins, Minehead, Somerset UK
(exact date TBC - either Friday or Saturday)

ALL tour dates: www.deanandbritta.com/shows

On July 27 Double Feature will release a deluxe gatefold double-CD package by Dean & Britta

13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests. This limited edition (3,000 copies) package contains a 12-page booklet with an essay on the project by Dean, still photographs from Warhol’s films, and two discs of music: the original 13 studio recordings created for the Screen Test DVD, plus an additional 8 remixes by Sonic Boom, Scott Hardkiss, My Robot Friend, and Anthony LaMarca. The songs are a blend of instrumentals, originals and covers (including Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep it With Mine.”) This project was initially commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum. Dean & Britta created 13 songs and instrumentals to perform live in a multimedia show, with Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests projected on a large screen above the band while they play.

Pre-order from our website and receive an 11×17 poster, designed by Frank Olinsky.

Best album of 2009 – Time Out New York

May 21, 2009.

I recently received an email from a pen-pal of mine, formerly in Cambodia, now living in Washington, D.C.; he wondered if we might be performing some Galaxie 500 songs at our upcoming shows (in Philadelphia, D.C., and at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City). Yes, we are planning on playing a bunch of Galaxie 500 songs; we did this at the Zipper Factory last year and it was fun and I managed to hit all the high notes. The Galaxie 500 video “Fourth of July” ran on New York Noise last week, followed by amusing comments from some young children. Warning: the video contains violent war imagery in addition to gorilla and clown suits. You can view it here; click on Episode 89, Section 1:

http://nyc.gov/html/nycmg/nyctv/html/music/nynoise.shtml

We rehearsed this week with drummer Jason Bemis Lawrence, who usually sits behind the traps for the Caledonia Mission, and is (like Anthony Lamarca), a graduate of the New School’s jazz program.

June 30 will find us performing the Andy Warhol Screen Test show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles June 20. We will also be doing a live radio session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic – June 18. And I’m doing a book reading at Skylight Books 5pm Sunday the 21st (Father’s Day). One father wrote to us this week – said that he was clearing the table after dinner and stumbled upon this drawing of yours truly, created by his 10-year-old son Lucas. Thank you Lucas.

- Dean

After performing this Andy Warhol Screen Test show in museums across the country for the past six months, the DVD from Plexifilm has finally arrived and is a thing of beauty. The DVD is housed in an elegant hardcover booklet with with forty pages of notes and photographs. It contains the original Andy Warhol films, with our songs (brand new studio recordings) as the soundtrack, along with a short documentary about the making of the live show. The DVD officially hits the streets April 7, but we have copies available now.

We are playing our last 13 Most Beautiful show for a while, this Saturday night at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, but will pick up again July 2 with a show at the Ann Arbor Arts Festival, followed by July shows in Marseille, Dunfermline (Scotland), St Etienne and Paris.

Here is the official description of the DVD from the Plexifilm site:

Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests features 13 of Warhol’s classic silent film portraits. 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, the Screen Tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean & Britta (and band).
This is the first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy Warhol.

The DVD is presented in a slipcovered hardbound package. DVD extras include a behind-the-scenes documentary on the live production of the 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Testsperformances, and a video interview with Dean & Britta about Andy Warhol, the music and the project. The booklet includes brief biographies of the Screen Test subjects, liner notes from the Warhol Museum’s Thomas Sokolowski, Geralyn Huxley, and Ben Harrison and notes on the music from Dean Wareham.

13 Most Beautiful: Songs for
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
13 “Screen Test” portrait films
by Andy Warhol, with songs
performed by Dean & Britta

DVD (Region 0 - World)
$30
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thanks,

Dean