Galaxie 500 was a seminal American underground band from the late 1980s.

There are two bands with the name Galaxie 500: 1: The widely known shoegazing Galaxie 500 Though overlooked in their own lifetime, Galaxie 500 later emerged as one of the pivotal underground groups of the post-punk era; dreamy and enigmatic, their minimalist dirges presaged the rise of both the shoegaze r and slowcore movements of the 1990s. The group formed in Boston, MA, in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted New Zealand native), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Da