I missed The Dream Syndicate the first time around: I was living in Philadelphia and in grad school. When I finally found my way to The Dream Syndicate, they had long broken up, and their second album, Medicine Show, was out of print. Steve Wynn, the leader of The Dream Syndicate, along with his current band, The Miracle 3, came to The Bell House last year to play the entire album on the 25th anniversary of its release (as then noted in OTBKB).
But on June 15th, Medicine Show was reissued and remastered. As with many modern remasters, the sound on this reissue is incredibly full and clean and a huge improvement over the versions of the record (LP and CD) which had gone before. You can learn more about this great record at Now I’ve Heard Everything.
–Eliot Wagner
I caught the Miracle 3 when they played Lakeside Lounge this past winter. It was Wynn’s 50th birthday. I shot some pretty cool video of it.
http://inklake.typepad.com/ink_lake/2010/02/through-the-looking-glass.html