Pitchfork

While not exactly at the apogee of the band's popularity, the ending of Dean Wareham's post-Galaxie 500 group Luna was just a bit too much fizzle, not enough bang for our liking. Those pining for fireworks can carouse now, however, because on Tuesday, June 20, Rhino Records will be picking up the slack big time by giving Luna a belated send-off worthy of their career.

The festivities are scheduled for three fronts: a "best of" album creatively called Best of Luna which features 17 songs released between 1992-2004; Lunafied, a digital-only collection of standards done the Luna way; and a Matthew Buzzell-directed final tour documentary, Tell Me Do You Miss Me, on DVD. We do indeed miss you, we really miss you. Tracklists:

Best of Luna:

01 Moon Palace
02 California (All the Way)
03 Anesthesia
04 Friendly Advice
05 Sideshow by the Seashore
06 Pup Tent
07 Slide
08 Tiger Lily
09 Chinatown
10 Tracy I Love You
11 Bewitched
12 Superfreaky Memories
13 Astronaut
14 Lovedust
15 I Want Everything
16 Lost in Space
17 23 Minutes in Brussels

Lunafied:

01 Bonnie and Clyde [Clyde Barrow version] (Serge Gainsbourg)
02 Indian Summer (Beat Happening)
03 Ride Into the Sun (Velvet Underground)
04 That's What You Always Say (The Dream Syndicate)
05 In the Flesh (Blondie)
06 Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)
07 Season of the Witch (Donovan)
08 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Talking Heads)
09 No Regrets (Tom Rush)
10 Outdoor Miner (Wire)
11 Happy New Year (Eugene Chadbourne)
12 Everybody's Talkin' (Fred Neil/Harry Nilsson)
13 Fly Into the Mystery (Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers)
14 La Poupée Qui Fait Non (Michel Polnareff)
15 Bonnie and Clyde [Bonnie Parker version] (Serge Gainsbourg)

Wareham's main musical focus is now with later-days Luna member Britta Phillips, in the duo Dean & Britta. A new Dean and Britta album, the duo's second full-length, is tentatively due at the beginning of 2007 and has again been recorded by producer Tony Visconti (T. Rex, Bowie, Morrissey). Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) once again lends his mastery of electronics to the proceedings. Video of new recording sessions is available on the Dean & Britta website, and their version of ex-Moldy Peach Adam Green's "We're Not Supposed to Be Lovers" is available on their Myspace page.