PHIL SPECTOR PRODUCES NEW ALBUM -- FOR WIFE

(The album will be released digitally on June 8)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -

Pioneering music producer and convicted killer Phil Spector has produced his first major recording project in 30 years -- a debut album for his wife Rachelle, her publicist said on Monday

May 24, 2010
abcnews.go.com

+ site rachellespector.com

Brian Wilson - Southern California

"Live At Abbey Road"
2008

2008 Written by Brian Wilson, Scott Bennett



Southern California

> God Only Knows also Live At Abbey Road

(There used to be a perfect version of Sloop John B from the same location but it's no more on youtube)

THE BEACH BOYS ON TOUR: JUNE 2010

For more or other agenda topics for each month: see sidebar right (almost bottom)








June 12 — Chicoutimi, QC, Canada (Vieux Port)
June 18 — West Wendover, NV (Peppermill Concert Hall)
June 19 — Reno, NV (Silver Legacy Casino)
June 20 — Snoqualmie, WA (Mountain View Plaza at Snoqualmie Casino)
June 25 — Belfast, Northern Ireland (Waterfront Hall Auditorium)
June 26 — Castlebar, Ireland (Royal Theatre and Event Centre)
June 27 — Dublin, Ireland (National Concert Hall)
June 29 — Helsinki, Finland (Ice Hall)
June 30 — Randers, Denmark (Justesens Plæne)

BBFC
beachboysfanclub.com

MAGIC TRANSISTOR RADIO: 20 GOOD VIBRATIONS RECORDED BY BRIAN WILSON AND THE BEACH BOYS

Originals, now on one cd!
Do You Wanna Dance ? - Bobby Freeman / The Wreck Of The John B - The Kingston Trio / Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings / Bluebirds Over The Mountain - Ershel Hickey / Hully Gully - The Olympics / Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry / One Kiss Led To Another - The Coasters / A Casual Look - The Six Teens / Alley Oop - Dallas Frazier / I’m So Young - Naomi Wilson / Shortenin Bread - The Andrews Sisters / Why Do Fools Fall In Love? - Frankie Lymon And The Teenager / In The Still Of The Nite - The Fivesatins / Talk To Me - Little Willie John / Gee - The Crows / Cottonfields - Leadbelly / Riot In Cell Block No 9 - The Coasters / Tennesse Waltz - Patti Page / Graduation Day - Four Freshmen / Rock N Roll Music - Chuck Berry

Cherry Red Cecords
cherryred.co.uk

+ More originals / covers overview

BRIAN WILSON: SURE, PET SOUNDS IS GREAT, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD BEACH BOYS PARTY!?

About the album Party! & more...

Brian Wilson is not a great interview.
Actually, the best quote I can pull from 10 painful minutes of taped conversation between me and my all-time favorite musician is this:

"Print that Brian says: 'Please, come out to my concert.'"

May 27 2010 Martin Cizmar
phoenixnewtimes.com

Q&A WITH BRIAN WILSON

Interview for concert promotion

Q: What have you been working on in the studio?

A: I've been putting the final touches on my Gershwin album.
I did interpretations of some of my favorite songs, and then I actually was able to finish two fragments of unfinished music from the estate. Very exciting.
I think the album is going to be released later this year. We will do some (live) shows for it as well.

May 26, 2010 Mandy Zajac
eastvalleytribune.com

+ http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2010/05/
brian_wilson_at_talking_stick.php

THE BESNARD LAKES AT MILLENNIUM PARK

Concert reviewsQUOTE:

Those vocals – especially Lasek’s otherworldly tenor – were pure heartbreak.
Sometimes they were presented unadorned, with a lone guitar or keyboard as accompaniment. Other times they emerged from a maelstrom of noise whipped up by the guitars of Lasek, White and Goreas.
The dynamics were executed with breath-taking precision, beginning with the epic opener, the two-part “Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent.”
Four- and three-part harmonies over Lasek’s guitar built the foundation for a steady ascent into tolling guitar harmonics, as White spiked the tempo with a series of giddy-up fills.

May 24, 2010 greg@gregkot.com
leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com

+ The Besnard Lakes + The Ponys: chicago.timeout.com

+ Last Night: The Besnard Lakes, Woven Bones and Binary Sunrise at the Granada: blogs.dallasobserver.com

+ DOWNLOAD THEN SEE: The Besnard Lakes: chicagoist.com

Family of the Year--Stairs

Live at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland
2010 (written 2009?)





Stairs

Chugjug - Family of the Year

2009





Chugjug

+ Site (& listen for free) familyoftheyear.net

> myspace.com/familyoftheyear


+ Boston Pops and Ben Folds pick Family of the Year (It's a band) hubarts.com

+ Family of the Year Interview: SXSW 2010 spinner.com

+ wiki/Family_of_the_Year

Family of the Year @ Sonicbids

2010 (written 2009?)





Stupidland

Family Of The Year - Summer Girl

2009





Summer Girl

I Went to Sleep (Beach Boys Cover)

Brand new publication!
2010 Cover by Kayla Williams

1968? Written by Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson
(1968 recorded, 1969 published)

I Went To Sleep

+ site kaylawilliams.com

NEW CAROLE KING TRIBUTE CD

Monkees singer Micky Dolenz's new cd is "King For A Day". It is produced by Jeff Foskett!

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Artist Official Website) - Gigatone Entertainment, a Sacramento-based next generation entertainment company has announced that the company is planning to release a new album by Monkees lead singer, MICKY DOLENZ.
Scheduled for release on August 24, 2010, the new album entitled KING FOR A DAY is his tribute to the songs of singer/songwriter Carole King.

2010-05-11
top40-charts.com

> Micky Dolenz - I Feel The Earth Move

+ timescolonist.com/entertainment
/Wacky+Monkee+drummer+pays+tribute+King/3119283/story.html

+ Mickey Dolenz puts his spin on Carole King songs

ADVICE TO GRADUATES: EMBRACE USELESSNESS

'Praise of uselessness & some aforisms from wikipedia'
QUOTE:

If we remember another of Santayana's pronouncements, we may not be condemned to getting the liberal arts wrong.
Music, he once observed, is essentially useless. (He added that this is also true for life, but let's not go down that path.)

To say music and its kindred arts are useless is not the same as saying they are worthless.
What is worthless, of course, is a world without J.S. Bach or the Beach Boys.
What Santayana meant is that music has no end or goal outside itself. It is absolute and absolutely pointless

May 8, 2010 ROBERT ZARETSKY
chron.com


+ More examples from wikipedia

Usually an aphorism is a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written. Aphorisms can be both prosaic or poetic, sometimes they have repeated words or phrases, and sometimes they have two parts that are of the same grammatical structure. Some examples include:

Good Art seems ancient to its contemporaries, and modern – to their descendants. — Plutarch

Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

Mediocrity is forgiven more easily than talent. — Emil Krotky

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.— Benjamin Franklin

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. — Theodor Adorno

If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you. — Al-Mutanabbi

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. — Mikhail Turovsky

Many of those who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lampposts. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A mystic hangs a fig leaf on a eunuch. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. — John Coltrane

When you are expected to exceed expectations, expect the unexpected. — Oleg Vishnepolsky

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green

It is not uncommon to commiserate with a stranger's misfortune, but it takes a really fine nature to appreciate a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. — Unknown, possibly French proverb, or authored by François de La Rochefoucauld

Only that which always existed can be eternal. — G. Antuan Suárez

Empathy is lost whenever it is most needed. — Arturo Mendívil

Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see. — Mark Twain

It is better to be hated for what one is, than loved for what one is not. — André Gide

Truths are not relative. What are relative are opinions about truth. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana, "The Life of Reason," Volume 1: "Reason in Common Sense," 1905.

AND THE GREATEST YEAR IN MUSIC IS...

Rock´s Backpages

What was the greatest single year in music?

This question often comes up in my mind. Don't ask me why.

All I know is I'm fascinated by the fact that certain years produce a huge number of songs that still mesmerize us decades later.

Why is it that all years are not created equal?

Why did some years produce one awesome album after another?

May 04, 2010 Ken Ross
masslive.com

Let the Wind Blow-Beach Boys Cover

Four great covers by Kayla Williams

2010

1967 Written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love




Let The Wind Blow

+ Forever
Vegetables
Time To Get Alone

NEW BRIAN WILSON CD IS (?) EXPECTED ON AUGUST 17

Walt Disney Records will release a Cd called The Gershwin Songbook by Brian Wilson.

The Gershwin Songbook is expected on August 17!

May 3 2010
that's all... musictap.net



UPDATE from the official webforum:

there are rumors, however, Disney has not yet set a release date for Brian's forthcoming "Gershwin" album. We've been assured that as soon as a date is set, you will be the first to know.
brianwilson.com

+ ABOUT THE SONG TITLES
News (December 2009?) from beachboysbritain :
Prior to embarking on this recent jaunt, Brian and the band spent a few days in Oceanway (the old Western) studio, recording seven basic tracks for an album tentatively titled Wilson Sings Gershwin, these included:

"I Loves You Porgy"
"Summertime"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
"Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"
"I Got Plenty Of Nothing"
'the pretty section from "Rhapsody in Blue"'.

+ recent additions from smileysmile.net/board
"A three-song medley"
"It Ain't Necessarily So"
"Two unfinished Gershwin piano pieces"

UPDATE
Gershwin-Songbook-Brian-Wilson on AMAZON Wishlist

FALSETTO ROCKS ’N’ ROLLS

The falsetto voice in indierock

Indie singers go for the high notes

OK Go’s “WTF?’’ kicks off with a sludgy punk-guitar line, but the strangely seductive intonations from Damian Kulash are more Earth Wind & Fire than Johnny Rotten.
When Dougie Mandagi opens his mouth on the Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition,’’ his skyward vocals take the listener by surprise, piercing all that anthemic reverb.

May 2, 2010 Adam Conner-Simons
more... boston.com

+ Indie music = Beach Boys + Velvet Underground
Contrary to popular belief, the indie rock movement didn’t start with recent bands such as Modest Mouse or Death Cab for Cutie. This movement started in the 1960’s with legendary bands like The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys.

BOOKS BY BOB GREENE

When We Get To Surf City is his latest book from 2008



From WikipediaRobert Bernard Greene, Jr. was an award winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he worked for 24 years.
Greene has written books on subjects varying from Michael Jordan, to small towns, to U.S. presidents.
His Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller.
Greene has two children, Nick and Amanda, from a 31-year marriage with Susan Koebel Greene.

more... en.wikipedia.org