Dean Wareham
| Dean Wareham | |
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Wareham performing in New York City in June 2007.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Dean Wareham |
| Born |
1 August 1963 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Genres | Dream pop, slowcore, indie rock, indie pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels | Various |
| Associated acts |
Galaxie 500 Luna Dean and Britta |
Michael Dean Wareham (born 1 August 1963) is a New Zealand musician and actor who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. He left Galaxie 500 in April 1991 and founded the band Luna. Since Luna's breakup in 2005, Wareham has released albums with fellow Luna bandmate (and wife) Britta Phillips (see Dean and Britta). He also works as a film composer, notably on the Noah Baumbach film The Squid and the Whale. He released a self-titled album in 2014 and reformed Luna in 2015.
Born in Seatoun, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, Wareham is the son of John Wareham, a management consultant and author. His family moved to Sydney, Australia, before settling in New York City in 1977. Wareham attended the Dalton School in New York and Harvard University, graduating with a B.A. in social studies. He has three siblings, including Louise Wareham, a novelist.
Guitarist Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang began playing together as Galaxie 500 in 1987, after their time as students at Harvard University. The band's name comes from a Ford car of the 1960s, the Ford Galaxie 500. Galaxie 500's records were released in the US and UK on the independent Rough Trade label and went out of print upon Rough Trade's demise. Galaxie 500's entire catalog, along with a box set including singles, EPs and rarities was reissued during the 1990s by Rykodisc.
Galaxie 500 leveraged fairly minimal instrumental technique with intense atmospherics provided by producer Mark Kramer, and their distinctive sound bore an influence beyond the small audience for their independently released albums. The sound and the increasingly loyal audience grew with each release until Wareham quit the band in 1991. To mark twenty years since the release of the Galaxie 500 albums, Wareham embarked on his Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 tour. Notably absent were Krukowski and Yang.
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