QRO turns its spotlight back onto two of the most beautiful people in indie-rock, Dean & Britta.
Name: Dean & Britta
Associated act(s): Galaxie 500, Luna
Hometown: New York, NY
Members: Britta Phillips, Dean Wareham
Albums: L’Avventura (2003), Sonic Souvenirs (2005), Words You Used To Say EP (2005), Back Numbers (2007), 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (2008)
Dean Wareham: Emancipated Hearts EP (2013), Dean Wareham (2016), Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre (Dean Wareham with Cheval Sombre), I Have Nothing To Say To the Mayor of L.A. (2021), That’s the Price of Loving Me (upcoming, 3/28/25)
Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic (2016)
w/ Sonic Boom: A Peace of Us (2024)
Related Articles:
Review as part of CMJ Day One at Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY on October 16th, 2007
Photo gallery from Bowery Ballroom
Review of Wareham’s autobiography, Black Postcards
Photo gallery from (le) Poisson Rouge in New York, NY on June 6th, 2009
Photos from Prospect Park Bandshell
Photo gallery of Dean Wareham from Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain on May 29th, 2011
Photo gallery from Royale in Boston, MA on November 3rd, 2011
Review of Dean Wareham’s Emancipated Hearts EP
Review of Dean Wareham’s Dean Wareham
Photo gallery of Dean Wareham (with Britta Phillips) at Bowery Ballroom on April 5th, 2014
Photo gallery of Luna at McCarren Park
Review of Britta Phillips’ Luck or Magic
Review of Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre’s Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre
Review of Dean Wareham’s I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.
Tour dates: (Dean Wareham)
April 1 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage
April 2 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
April 3 – Liverpool, UK @ Hangar 34
April 4 – Leamington, UK @ The Assembly
April 5 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
April 6 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
April 7 – London, UK @ 229
April 8 – Paris, FR @ Le Petit Bain
April 10 – Utrecht, NL @ DB’s
April 12 – Groningen, NL @ Aa Theater
April 13 – Hamburg, DE @ Nachtasyl Theater
April 15 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
April 18 – San Sebastian, Spain @ Dabadaba
April 20 – Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Upload
April 21 – Valencia, Spain @ 16 Toneladas Rock Club
April 22 – Zaragoza, Spain @ La Lata De Bombillas
April 24 – Granada, Spain @ Caja Granada Cultural Center
April 25 – Madrid, Spain @ Sala Villanos
May 10 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s
May 11 – Ojai, CA @ Deer Lodge
May 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
May 17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
May 20 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
May 21 – Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
Dean & Britta playing Galaxie 500’s “Temperature’s Rising” live at (le) Poisson Rouge:
Dean & Britta playing “Herringbone Tweed (for Dennis Hopper)” live at (le) Poisson Rouge:
Dean & Britta covering Joy Divisions’s “Ceremony” live at (le) Poisson Rouge:
Dean & Britta playing Luna’s “Bewitched” at (le) Poisson Rouge:
Dean Wareham playing Luna’s “Tiger Lily” at Bowery Ballroom on April 5th, 2014:
