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Sandra Nygaard
Sandra Nygaard is a Brooklyn-based writer.

Theyre in the Mood for Love
by Sandra NygaardAUG-SEPT 2002 | Music
Its 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 NygaardAUG-SEPT 2002 | 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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