Richie Unterberger is the author of around a dozen rock history books, including Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll ; Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to QuadropheniaTurn! Turn! Turn!/Eight Miles High . His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.He has contributed to numerous publications, including Record Collector and MOJO . He's written liner notes for several hundred album reissues, including the extensive notes for the super deluxe edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico and Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65 . He gives regular presentations on rock and soul history throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches courses at several universities in the US. 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. 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 .