A handful of terrible photos taken with my Kodak Instamatic of Galaxie 500, playing the loading dock of the Harvard Coop bookstore in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA), first week of September 1988. Just one month later, local label Aurora released the band’s debut album, Today

This was part of a series of concerts featuring local bands put on by local “alternative rock” station WFNX. Since they were aimed at arriving college freshmen, the shows were all outdoors/all-ages. I got to see maybe 10 different bands over the course of two days, and that was the start of my obsession with local/indie music.

Oh, and I also wrote a review of this one, where I explain exactly what Naomi is doing in that last pic…