Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500 was a trio: Dean Wareham, Naomi Yang, and Damon Krukowski. The band formed in Boston in 1987, and broke up in 1991, releasing three albums on Rough Trade Records: Today (1988), On Fire (1989), and This Is Our Music (1990). Since the band’s demise, three additional archival recordings have also been released: Uncollected Noise New York ’88—’90 (studio rarities and outtakes), Peel Sessions (recorded for BBC Radio 1′s John Peel Show, 1989 & 1990), and Copenhagen (recorded live by Danish National Radio, 1990). The three original albums have now been remastered and reissued on LP, as they originally appeared, available worldwide from 20-20-20.
All Galaxie 500 recordings are available digitally via download from the Galaxie 500 bandcamp page
September 2024 Galaxie 500 New York Times interview
Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 is Galaxie 500’s first release of new archival material in nearly 30 years and is their most comprehensive collection of unreleased and rare archival material ever. Its 24 tracks make up the complete Noise New York studio recordings of the band’s outtakes and non-album tracks. Compiled by the band it traces their career from among their earliest recorded moments in the studio to their last. Including eight never-before-heard studio tracks culled from all the sessions throughout Galaxie’s career, chronologically sequenced along with previously released but rare and long out of print studio material. Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 plays like a secret history of the band following the arc of their growth and creative expansion from their career’s beginning to end.
Produced and Engineered by Kramer at Noise New York 1988-1990.
Packaging includes archival images and historical liner notes by the band.
Classic Black: 2xLP black vinyl in gatefold jacket including archival imagery and a triple panel fold-out insert with historical photos and liner notes by the band. (Universal; Edition of 1750)
$30
Colored Vinyl: 2xLP cyan + semi-transparent black vinyl in gatefold jacket including archival imagery and a triple panel fold-out insert with historical photos and liner notes by the band.
(Exclusive edition to label/band Bandcamp; Edition of 750)
$32
Colored Vinyl: 2xLP "Cloudy violet" vinyl in gatefold jacket including archival imagery and a triple panel fold-out insert with historical photos and liner notes by the band.
(EU exclusive; Edition of 200)
$32
Colored Vinyl: 2xLP "Galaxy blue" vinyl in gatefold jacket including archival imagery and a triple panel fold-out insert with historical photos and liner notes by the band.
(USA indie retail exclusive; Edition of 2500)
$32
Handmade TMOQ Edition: 2xLP Silver and Blue Iridescent Colored Vinyl
Double gatefold Cotton Candy Stoughton tip-on jacket with metallic silver and blue printed inner panels and hand written, numbered, stamped, glued, taped and stickered jacket with exclusive pasty Galaxie 500 flyer on back cover. In the tradition of TMOQ bootlegs. Including a fold-out triple panel insert with historical photos and liner notes by the band and an exclusive vintage-style 8x10 glossy promo photo of Galaxie 500 by Michael Macioce shot on infrared film in 1989 in Queens, NY.
(Edition of 500)
$75
2024 release
Uncollected Noise New York
Compiled by the band, a 24 track collection of unreleased and rare archival material – the complete Noise New York studio outtakes and non-album tracks. From their earliest recorded moments in the studio to their last. Including eight never-before-heard studio tracks.
Galaxie 500's influential 1988 debut, remastered in 2009.
“An astonishing debut by anybody’s standards… A haze of warm psychedelic-like torpor.” — Melody Maker
Galaxie 500's second and most popular album, remastered for LP in 2009.
Galaxie 500's second and most popular album, remastered in 2009.
“A wintry opiate… a hypnotic open loop of gentle drums, a bass that becalms, and a guitar that drifts purposefully from languid to leveling.”
— Spin magazine
Galaxie 500's ambitious final album, remastered for LP in 2009.
Galaxie 500's ambitious final album, remastered in 2009.
“Feedback never sounded so sweet.” — Billboard
An oral and visual history by Mike McGonigal
with visual archive and commentary by Naomi Yang
This oral and visual history provides a complete account of the band’s rise to indie stardom and their difficult breakup. Includes dozens of rare and never-before-seen photographs, as well as posters and other ephemera from the archives of Naomi Yang, along with her commentary. The definitive book about Galaxie 500 and a crucial chapter in the story of U.S. indie rock.
192 pages paperback, 8″ x 10″, with 214 full color illustrations