CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/22/2022

'Temperature's Rising' — a new oral history of Galaxie 500

"I always think the band was like a movie star or a musician that died young—part of the mystique afterwards was that we never had a chance to grow old and for people to get bored of us." So says Naomi Yang, bassist and vocalist of the legendary late-80s / early-90s punk band, Galaxie 500, which she joined with drummer Damon Krukowski and guitarist and vocalist Dean Wareham. Featured spreads are from Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising, the highly anticipated oral history re-release with text by noted music journalist Mike McGonigal, who interviewed not just the members of the band, but dozens of fellow musicians, critics and others from the scene. The book is filled with rare and never-before-seen photographs, posters and ephemera from Yang's personal collection, which she describes in a running commentary.