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PRICE OF PERFORMANCE: CORPORATE CONTROL OF LIVE MUSIC

Featuring Dean Wareham, Bob Mould, Lisa Gottheil, Rose Marshack, and Andre Perry.

Dean Wareham was born in Wellington, New Zealand and moved to New York City as a teenager in 1977. In 1985 he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies. He then founded Galaxie 500 (as singer/guitarist and songwriter), recording three albums between 1988 and 1991. His next band, Luna, recorded seven studio albums between 1992 and 2004. Since then he has recorded several albums with his wife, Britta Phillips as Dean & Britta. The duo also compose music for film, including the Squid & the Whale (2005) and Mistress America (2015) for Noah Baumbach, the Irma Vep series by Olivier Assayas, and 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, which is a live multi-media commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Dean’s memoir, Black Postcards, published by Penguin Random House, is a personal and cultural chronicle of his years spent in indie rock. His most recent album, I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A., was released in 2021 on Double Feature Records.