A Head Full of Wishes - podcasts: Recent Episodes
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A Head full of Wishes is a site for fans of Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Dean Wareham. The podcast is as much about being a fan as it is about the music.
Naomi has a lengthy interview for the Self Portrait Gospel podcast discussing her career.
It’s available in all the usual places you get your podcasts.
Self Portrait Gospel: Season 6 Ep. #19 - Naomi Yang :: Galaxie 500 (play on YouTube)
The latest edition of the Run Into The Ground podcast has Matthew Caws of Nada Surf who during the chat talks at length about Luna’s Lunapark. You can listen to it wherever you listen to your podcasts. The Lunapark discussion starts about 50 minutes in.
- Run Into The Ground via Apple Podcasts
- Run Into The Ground via Spotify
Naomi Yang guests on the latest Free Association podcast, during the hour long chat with the host Brian Carpenter she talks mostly about her new film “Never Be a Punching Bag for Nobody”, and the the recording of the soundtrack album, but also touches on touring, playing bass, and Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Naomi”.
It was a bit shocking to Damon because I just wanted to plug my keyboard directly into my computer and just record the soundtrack that way and he was like “no beautiful microphones, no amplifiers. no me mixing it?” and I was like “nope”.
It’s well worth checking out in wherever you listen to podcasts… or here:
Naomi Yang on Free Association with Brian Carpenter (29th April 2023)
Source: Free Association
Dean Wareham is the guest on the latest edition of the Jokermen podcast talking about The Velvet Underground album Loaded.
Dean joins us to talk opening for the Velvets in 1993, Billy Joel’s bodyguard, and a record full of wonderful rock songs.
- Jokermen - The Velvet Underground: LOADED with Dean Wareham
Dean Wareham at the Olympia in Paris, 1993 (Photo: Howard Thompson)
Dean Wareham appears on the latest issue of the Before The Stream podcast (almost) talking about the Nirvana Unplugged cover of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World. The shows host is singer songwriter and sometime Dean & Britta drummer Jason Bemis Lawrence.
Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.
Dean’s band Luna was making major label rock albums at the same time Nirvana was, so he has an interesting perspective on the time period.
Dean and Jason talk about the aesthetics of “Unplugged”, vocals, covers, and more.
Always cool to hear him talk music!
Check out the chat on Before The Stream.
Damon Krukowski - The New Analog Damon Krukowski is the first guest on the new podcast Devalued whose remit is to “talk about art and money and how creative people are navigating the ever changing landscape to make a living for their work” which is bread and butter to Damon.
In this debut Devalued episode, Krukowski discusses all of these topics and how artists empowerment is truly a political issue that goes well beyond the imbalance of Spotify payments. His experience with both the indie and major label industries spans decades and his insights are invaluable.
He is of course always well worth a listen - so check it out.
Dean Wareham appears on the latest issue of the Sound Opinions podcast where he picks Five albums that shaped him … anyone who’s listened to Dean over the years could porbably guess five out of five…
Always cool to hear him talk music!
Check out the interview on the Sound Opinions website.
Damon & Naomi / Aquarium Drunkard Damon and Naomi are the guests on the latest edition of the Aquarium Drunkard podcast
Our talk covers the duo’s days in Galaxie 500, Naomi’s interest in boxing, Damon’s ever fascinating and insightful takes on the state of the industry, and their gorgeous new album, A Sky Record.
Damon has also recently launched a Substack newsletter, The Dada Drummer Almanach which promises…
new music, old music, my own music, my friends’ music, music I’ve found while traveling on tour, music that’s found me at the flea market, record store, or on my favorite AM radio station (there is still one where I live, in Cambridge MA, although at night it’s only audible within a mile or so of the transmitting tower).
I’ll be writing about sounds I hear at art exhibitions, in books, in my garden, and in my head (no drummer doesn’t have at least a touch of tinnitus).
I’ll be writing about drums.
You can sign-up for free, or pay $5 per month and join Damon in subscriber-only roundtables.
Damon Krukowski's award winning podcast series Ways of Hearing is now available on Bandcamp and a book version will be released in the new year.
Earlier this year Damon wrote and presented an excellent six part radio series inspired by the themes explored in his book The New Analog. The whole of Ways of Hearing is now available to listen to and buy from Bandcamp and is well worth throwing a few dollars Damon's way to get to hear it in a lossless format for the first time.
The series will also be getting a release in book form by MIT Press in April.
Each chapter of Ways of Hearing explores a different aspect of listening in the digital age: time, space, love, money, and power […]. Music has been dematerialized, no longer an object to be bought and sold. With recommendation algorithms and playlists, digital corporations have created a media universe that adapts to us, eliminating the pleasures of brick-and-mortar browsing. Krukowski lays out a choice: do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only?
Ways of Hearing book Ways of Hearing podcast
Damon has taken the themes that he explored in his book The New Analog and has developed them into a new six-part podcast series that launches today as part of the new Radiotopia series Showcase.
In the first episode Damon ponders the differences between digital and analog time and how "machines have a different sense of time".
You can find out more about the series and listen to (or subscribe to) the first episode over at the Showcase web site.
The first episode was also previewed as part of the excellent 99% Invisible podcast earlier in the week.
Ways of Hearing
So despite my threats to the contrary the AHFoW podcast reaches episode 2 in which I witter on about social media and the web - it kind of gets a bit wayward at the end, so forgive me for that. Once again this podcast was recorded by the river at Kew with accompaniment from ducks, trains, boats, and the tide. The whistle at the end is the sound of a District Line train going over Kew Bridge, and the wash lapping my feet is from a tourist boat heading towards Richmond. I thought for this episode I'd talk about how AHFoW has tried to be the place where fans can mingle and how the success has been mixed, I talk about how social media has changed AHFoW and briefly at the end touch on how the fans relationship with bands has changed in recent year. If the podcast reaches episode three I'd like to perhaps expand on that - but we'll see.
Over on NPR right now (or down at the bottom of this page) you can listen to a lovely short item on the Luna reunion by journalist Ike Sriskandarajah. But this post is mostly about me… and for that I apologise! Ike got in touch with me a couple of weeks back when he was prepping this piece asking if I would (or knew of anyone who would) like to record some thoughts about Luna and the reunion for possible use in the show. I did this, but I ended up on the cutting room floor. You'd think that would mean that you don't get the chance to hear 15 seconds of me gushing… and you'd be right. No! What that means (and I feel I may regret this!) is that you get the full nine minutes of me gushing in the first (and probably only) ever A Head Full of Wishes podcast! Ike threw a few questions at me in an email and I headed to The Thames at lunchtime and sat on the steps leading down to the river, and talked into my phone. In theory I was trying to answer the questions, but in actual fact I was just streaming whatever came into my head. You can hear the ambience of the River Thames at Kew, you can hear the planes going overhead (all the flipping time) and (at the end) you can hear me saying hello to a dog that came to investigate what I was doing. But mostly, you can just hear me talking about how much I love Luna.