Brooklyn Rail Contributor

Sandra Nygaard

Sandra Nygaard is a Brooklyn-based writer.



They’re in the Mood for Love

by Sandra Nygaard

| Music

“It’s hard to keep a band together for ten years and not expect some turmoil, not to mention a few unfortunate business situations,” muses Dean Wareham, frontman and founder of the dreamy New York guitar band, Luna. Maybe the successful release of their seventh full-length LP, Romantica, has allowed Wareham to feel at ease with the sticky situations plaguing the band for the last few years.

An Unhappy Ending?

by Sandra Nygaard

| Music

Even the most promising unions can wind up disastrously, like David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen; Conan and Andy; and even Goober Grape, a premixed jar of grape jelly and peanut butter that inexplicably still graces the shelves of supermarkets around the country.

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