Dean Wareham was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He moved to New York City as a
teenager in 1977, and attended the high school where he met his future Galaxie 500
bandmates. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies. In 1987 he
founded Galaxie 500, who released three albums, all produced by Kramer and released on
Rough Trade. 2024 saw the release of new compilation of B-sides and previously unreleased
tracks: Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90. Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven
albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet (including Penthouse, on Rolling Stone’s list of best
albums of the 90s), followed by three albums as Dean & Britta (with his wife Britta Phillips), and two solo albums. His most recent release, also on Carpark Records, was a holiday album in collaboration with Britta and Sonic Boom.
His memoir Black Postcards is a chronicle of his years in indie rock and was published by
Penguin. He has also co-composed soundtracks and acted in several films for Noah Baumbach, most recently White Noise.
That’s the Price of Loving Me is Dean's first album with Kramer since Galaxie 500’s This Is Our
Music in 1990.