This Swedish duo have covered Brian Wilson's magnum opus SMiLE with just voice and guitar – and it's breathtaking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/30/new-band-polly-tones
(PA) http://www.citizensvoice.com/arts_living/entertainment/2.211/brian_wilson_makes_stop_at_kirby_nov_11
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/fleetwood-mac-secc-glasgow-1809347.html
http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/ENTERTAINMENT/910290311
The N.H. native has backed up Brian Wilson for 10 years as a member of his acclaimed touring band http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/ENTERTAINMENT/910290314
2009 live
youtube.com/watch?v=BuTfDYXWtRg&fmt=18
FORTY years since Brian Wilson formed the Beach Boys, it's hard to say anything about them that they haven't already contradicted themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/arts/music-a-rock-utopian-still-chasing-an-american-dream.html?pagewanted=1
The Beach Boy gets older, but his songs stay the same age http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/brian-wilson-at-pabst-theater,34534/
I wasn’t expecting to write this much, so I’m going to split this discussion about last week’s Brian Wilson concert at Springfield’s Sangamon Auditorium last week. http://www.herald-review.com/app/blogs/timcain/?p=1456
This Fall, Time Life commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame with an unprecedented, comprehensive collection of performances compiled from a quarter century of induction celebrations. http://www.readjunk.com/news/music/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-25th-anniversary-3-disc-dvd-set-out-nov-3rd/
2008? youtube.com/watch?v=FX6uO90Vmc0&fmt=18
Cheap prizes! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ANHMS4/sr=8-1/qid=1256401825/ref=sr_digr_1/191-6761426-0176119?ie=UTF8&qid=1256401825&sr=8-1
When asked for his high school yearbook what he thought he’d be doing in five years, Jeffrey Foskett wrote: “I’ll either be playing in the Beach Boys or the Beatles.” http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2009/10/21/entertainment/doc4adf32a808805883377607.txt
The book, written by Peter Ames Carlin and published by Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster ($26), is described in a press release as "a fresh perspective on his many triumphs -- and failures" and says it offers evidence "that the widely accepted Beatles 'myth' -- with McCartney as villain and John Lennon as avant garde genius -- requires some revision." http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m10d22-New-Paul-McCartney-biography-takes-new-perspective-on-former-Beatles-life
Never an artist noted for thinking small, with The BQE Sufjan Stevens brings us his gesamtkunstwerk about the piecemeal construction and subsequent decline of the notoriously congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in New York. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-sufjan-stevens-the-bqe-rough-trade-1803333.html
Who'd have ever thought Walt Disney Records — or "Disney Sound," as it's called here — would be responsible for one of this year's most enjoyable albums, not just for kids but for rock fans and adults as well? http://www.metrotimes.com/music/review.asp?rid=25706#
http://www.moogmusic.com/news/?cat_id=231
The California dream of security and prosperity is dead. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/17/california-failed-state-economy
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-10-Best-Beach-Boys-Songs-Youve-Never-Heard-Of
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Sangamon Auditorium, on the campus of the University of Illinois Springfield
Tickets
$52, $42 and $32, available at the Sangamon Auditorium ticket office, by phone at (217) 206-6160 or online at http://www.sangamonauditorium.org/
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/lifestyle_entertainment/x593085584/Former-Beach-Boy-Brian-Wilson-sees-sunnier-days-ahead
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