LUNA

“When bands reform, something in me resists listening to their comeback albums.”

– Dean Wareham

To most of our readers, Luna hopefully need no introduction. The band were a ’90s indie rock fixture until their public breakup in 2005, documented in the 2006 documentary film

Tell Me Do You Miss Me?

It’s not like they rested on their laurels during the decade they were gone, though. Songwriter/singer/guitarist Dean Wareham (formerly of late ’80s/early ’90s indie legends Galaxie 500) and his wife Britta Phillips (once the singing voice of Jem on the cult ’80s cartoon

Jem and the Holograms

and also a veteran of the ’90s bands Ultrababyfat and The Belltower) formed the duo Dean and Britta, releasing several albums of original material while also scoring the film

13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

and doing a tour of only Galaxie 500 material. In 2008 Wareham released a memoir,

Black Postcards

, and put out a self-titled