• 1980s alternative rock band Galaxie 500 were only together for 5 years, from 1986 to 1991, but their lo-fi, atmospheric, dreamy sound proved influential to other bands in the "slowcore" or "shoegazer" movement, including Arab Strap, Low, Slowdive and Lush.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Formed in 1986 at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
  2. Members: Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang
  3. Label: Rough Trade Records, Rykodisc
  4. Named after the Ford Galaxie 500 muscle car
  5. Damon Krukowski borrowed his first drum set from Harvard classmate Conan O'Brien
  6. Original name: Speedy and the Castanets
  7. Recorded a popular edition of Peel Sessions
  8. Covered "Listen, the Snow is Falling" by Yoko Ono on third album This is Our Music

• Albums

  1. Today (1988)
  2. On Fire (1989)
  3. This Is Our Music (1990)

• Career Overview

  Band members Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang had met in high school, and formed Galaxie 500 while attending Harvard University. They recorded a demo together, called Shimmy Disc, and used it to get a record deal with the small, independent Aurora label.

  Their second album, the first of two released on Rough Trade Records, was On Fire, generally considered the most significant of the band's three recordings. This Is Our Music followed in 1991, and the band embarked on a large-scale American tour before breaking up that same year.

  Wareham went on to record with the band Luna before they, in turn, broke up in 2005. He married Luna bandmate Britta Phillips in 2007.

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