GEEKING OUT WITH THE APPLES IN STEREO’S ROBERT SCHNEIDER

(cd: The Apples In Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time)

QUOTE:

Wired.com: That’s OK, we also got hazed for snubbing big shots like The Beach Boys. Is Pet Sounds the greatest concept album ever made?

Schneider: I would say the finished version of Smile, not Pet Sounds, would take first place if I was allowed to revise the list. That’s based on the godlike beauty of the interwoven musical parts, which is unlike anything else in pop music, and far beyond Pet Sounds from a conceptual standpoint.

April 20, 2010 Scott Thill
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/04/qa-robert-schneider/3/

+ Robert Schneider and Brian Wilson
http://opticalatlas.com/2008/11/robert-schneider-and-brian-wilson/

SETH SWIRSKY’S WATERCOLOR DAY IS A PICTURE OF POP DELIGHTS

cd: Seth Swirsky - Watercolor Day

LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) Seth Swirsky just wants to make the world whistle and hum.
And that’s just what he does on Watercolor Day, the new album from the hit songwriter and co-leader of the acclaimed, The Red Button as he presents a new song cycle that conjures images of sweet summer days.

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 Chrissy Sutphin
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/seth-swirskyrsquos-watercolor-day-is-a-picture-of-pop-delights,1260353.shtml

COACHELLA 2010: GRIZZLY BEAR IS FOR LOVERS

Festival: Coachella 2010 / Grizzly Bear
A few minutes before Grizzly Bear played its Mojave tent set, a young couple passed the wait by eagerly proving their affection for each other by the tent entrance.

April 16, 2010 August Brown
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/04/coachella-2010-grizzly-bear-is-for-lovers.html

+ Coachella 2010: Grizzly Bear Review and Photos

http://beatcrave.com/2010-04-18/coachella-2010-grizzly-bear-review-and-photos/

MANAGING THEIR FAME

CD: MGMT - Congratulations

MGMT have narrowly avoided falling victim to the hedonistic rock'n'roll lifestyle.

IT WAS not supposed to come to this. Midway through 2008, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser had an alarming realisation.
As the Brooklyn-based electro-pop duo known as MGMT, their lives had become exactly the kind of circus their debut single Time to Pretend had derided.

April 16, 2010 theage.com.au
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/managing-their-fame-20100415-sgxw.html

+ Surprise success MGMT surprise again on new album
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/entertainment/article/502726--surprise-success-mgmt-surprise-again-on-new-album

+ Official website (& listen for free)
http://www.whoismgmt.com/us/home?utm_medium=columbia-email&utm_source=mgmt&utm_campaign=columbia-email%7Cmgmt%7C20100322

+ Coachella 2010: MGMT and Muse, from one extreme to another

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/04/coachella-2010-mgmt-and-muse-from-one-extreme-to-another.html

Ravi Shankar feat Philip Glass - Meeting Along The Edge

1990
Written by Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass




youtube.com/watch?v=lGHtW2d6Vw8&fmt=18

+ On the Edge - homage to Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass 2008
By the Sabina Rakcheyeva Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFyTCq7pz4&fmt=18

Department of Eagles - Sailing by Night

2009 live

2003 Written by Daniel Rossen



youtube.com/watch?v=x7OMkmJQ9nE&fmt=18

+ Department of Eagles - Sailing By Night (Studio Version) 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0se3U3BqU&fmt=18

DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES ARCHIVE 2003-2006

cd: Department Of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006


Daniel Rossen and Fred Nicholaus were roommates at NYU when they began composing songs using samplers and goofy effects under the name Whitey On The Moon UK, borrowing their neighbor Chris Taylor’s microphone, who would later join Daniel to form Grizzly Bear.
Daniel and Fred created bedroom beats with funny lyrics as WotM, but later changed their name to Department of Eagles to avoid clashing with the similarly named San Fransisco band.

April 12th, 2010 Adam Kearney
http://www.deathandtaxesmagazine.com/?p=10679

Army (Ben Folds) on Acappella U HD - University of Rochester Midnight Ramblers

2008 a capella cover

1999 Ben Folds



youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR5rFh9gBs&fmt=18

IF THERE'S ONE THING BEN FOLDS' CAREER PATH HASN'T BEEN, IT'S PREDICTABLE

Concert and upcoming new cd: Ben Folds - Picture Window

Weather permitting, singer-songwriter-pianist Ben Folds can't wait to return to Cleveland.
Sure, he has a show booked for Thursday at the House of Blues, but his anticipation is based more on a hobby.

April 12, 2010 John Benson
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/04/12/life/nh2307219.txt

Stephen Fairweather's 'Love You - Stack-O-Tracks'

Online: Stephen Fairweather's 'Love You - Stack-O-Tracks'

As far as we knew, the 'BBB Love You' event (Dec 10th, 2005 @ Lutterworth) was the first time this album could be heard in its entirety in one live performance.

(tip: Honkin' Down The Highway)

Stephen Fairweather
http://www.beachboysbritain.org.uk/loveyou.html

+ The Beach Boys Top 25 Best Most-Overlooked Singles
http://talkaboutpoppopmusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/beach-boys-top-20-most-overlooked.html

WELL-READHEAD: I'VE GOT WORMS

There's nothing wrong with the Beach Boys per se.

The album Pet Sounds routinely shows up on best-of-all-time lists.
But I'm feeling a bit less fondly towards them after recently having the chorus of Help Me Rhonda stuck in my head on a loop.
It reappeared several days in a row.

Fri Apr 9, 2010 Leigh Sales
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/09/2868049.htm?site=thedrum

+ Why do songs get stuck in my head?
http://health.howstuffworks.com/songs-stuck-in-head.htm

QUARRINGTON TRIBUTE INVOLVES MANY

QUOTE:

A Renaissance man in the most hands-on sense, Quarrington was an accomplished non-fiction writer and novelist, musician, screenwriter and educator.
He's best known for his novel Whale Music which is loosely based on the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.
Whale Music won the 1989 Governor General's Award and became a film by the same name in 1994.

April 8, 2010 ERROL NAZARETH
http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/music/2010/04/08/13521051.html

+ About the book 'Whale Music'
http://www.beachboys.com/booksIV.html

Super Furry Animals- The Placid Casual

1997





youtube.com/watch?v=I5HO8GfD0QY&fmt=18

+ Super Furry Animals - Citizens Band RARE HIDDEN SONG! 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjr5u8aivE&fmt=18

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS INTERVIEW

“I think all the Beach Boys had pretty good beards for a while,” muses Gruff Rhys, gently stroking his chin, “Dennis had a fantastic beard…and Mike Love had a beard for the duration of the Beach Boys career, I believe.
In fact, when Mike started losing his hair, the beard appeared in relation to the hair loss.
It was a strange kind of correlation.”

April 09, 2010 Ric Rawlins
http://www.artrocker.com/node/629

10 REASONS WHY THE BEACH BOYS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT BAND IN HISTORY

In the world of pop music, a lot of great personalities cast a long shadow.
Most of the durable bands and artists from the past 50 years, if we still remember them today, have left some kind of legacy.

April 6th, 2010 Josh Hoisington
http://www.soundsgoodink.com/featured/10-reasons-why-the-beach-boys-are-the-most-important-band-in-history

AT 60, BOBBY MCFERRIN FINDS HIS MUSIC JUST FLOWS EFFORTLESSLY

The music on vocalist Bobby McFerrin's new CD, "VOCAbuLarieS," is dream-world stuff. It floats and spins, a choir of voices as a chiffon sound tapestry, blowing about, shimmering and shimmying — delicate and complex, beating like a heart, or glowing like a jellyfish in the dark.

04/03/2010 Richard Scheinin
http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_14795556?nclick_check=1

+ listen to samples of this cd (& more streaming 'radio')
http://bobbymcferrin.com/radio.php

+ Surprise!
http://www.bobbymcferrin.com/dwbh_loader.html

+ Bobby McFerrin a vocal master
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20100322bobby_mcferrin_a_vocal_master/srvc=home&position=also

IN FULL MIKE LOVE INTERVIEW

QUOTE:

Performing so many gigs indicates a real passion for performing?
Mike Love: This year we will probably do 150 to 160 shows. After Ireland we’re going to Finland and Denmark and then Sweden and then down to the Canary Islands and the Spanish Coast and back to Sweden and who knows from there.
What we like to do every night is prove we can recreate those songs like they’re meant to be sung, like the recordings.
We have an excellent musical director and lead guitarist to make sure every part is what it should be and we have got nothing but compliments recently on how fantastic the show sounds and [people saying] that the group has never sounded better.
To see how people respond so beautifully to your efforts and to see that reaction from all ages is really, really fantastic.
Obviously we get to travel to some pretty cool places and see the world and obviously we make a living doing it and those are two good things, but the special part of it is recreating those songs and doing the absolute best job that we can and seeing the audience join in and have a great time with us.

2 April 2010 Edwin McGreal
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9400:in-full-mike-love-interview&catid=52:going-out&Itemid=146

+ The Maharishi Makes the Scene (January 25, 1968)
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/the_maharishi_m.php

+ How The Beatles' meditation technique could cure depression
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/how-the-beatles-meditation-technique-could-cure-depression-1938712.html

THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING UNIQUELY PROFILES CAROLE KING'S CAREER AS AMERICA'S BEST KNOWN SINGER AND SONGWRITER

NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- From her earliest forays into music at the age of four, it was Carole King's destiny to pursue a career as a composer, musician and vocalist.
A decade before the mid-'60s folk boom put the term "singer and songwriter" into American and British pop music vernacular, Carole was, in fact, exactly that – a singer and songwriter.

April 6 2010 / PRNewswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-essential-carole-king-uniquely-profiles-carole-kings-career-as-americas-best-known-singer-and-songwriter-89992482.html

DR. DOG: SHAME, SHAME

Considering they already have six albums to their credit, it's great to say Philly band Dr. Dog truly hits their stride with Shame, Shame.

With 2008's Fate looming in the background as some of the band's finest work, Shame had a lot to live up to. It mostly does.

Apr. 6 2010 Michael Lopez
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2010/04/dr_dog_shame_shame.php

+ CD REVIEW: Dr. Dog’s dose of ’60s sun
http://www.theweekender.com/music/Dr__Dog_rsquo_s_dose_of__rsquo_60s_sun_04-06-2010.html

+ Liner Notes: Dr. Dog, 'Shame, Shame' (including 12 TubeVideo's)
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/04/dr-dog-shame-shame-liner-notes-930-club.php

Dr. Dog - 100 Years

2008





youtube.com/watch?v=LZjnAs9XoLU&fmt=18

+ Dr. Dog - My Old Ways (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xrC19GJcsw&fmt=18

+ Unbearable Why 3:13 (2010)
http://www.last.fm/music/Dr.+Dog/_/Unbearable+Why

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dog

The Break - Cylinders - Complete Clip

2010

(The Break is Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Brian Ritchie and Rob Hirst)


youtube.com/watch?v=n0p9DyBSzU4&fmt=18

OILS LEAVE THE HIGH-OCTANE ROCK TO TRY CALMER WATERS

JIMI HENDRIX'S grand and dire 1967 psychedelic prediction ''you'll never hear surf music again'' proved as short-lived as that year's summer of love.

Five decades later the reverb refuses to die.

April 3, 2010 DAMIEN MURPHY
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/oils-leave-the-highoctane-rock-to-try-calmer-waters-20100402-rjtu.html

Build Me Up, Buttercup on ukulele

2008 by Jaaaaaaa aka Julia Nunes

1968 Written by: Mike d'Abo, Tony Macaulay (for the Foundations)



youtube.com/watch?v=HeP1Klmk0ng&fmt=18

+ Julia Nunes performs Jesus Walks, Kanye West
http://www.youtube.com/user/jaaaaaaa#p/u/32/KARlYABG3AQ

SOMEONE NOT NAMED JUSTIN BIEBER GETS BREAKS BIG ON YOUTUBE

Julia Nunes and the ukulele seemed fated to be together.
She's half Portuguese, and her father is Mañuel Nunes, a name he shares with the Portuguese immigrant who moved to Hawaii in 1879 and was responsible for transforming a Madeiran instrument called the machete into the ukulele.

April 01, 2010 Andrew Dansby
http://blogs.chron.com/peep/2010/04/someone_not_named_justin_biebe.html

SUSANNA HOFFS GETS UNDER THE COVERS

Amid the synth-pop and glam-metal that dominated mid-1980s American radio, the Bangles seemed an anachronism.
The all-female Southern California quartet imbued their songs with jingle-jangle guitars and sweet harmonies that placed them firmly in the folk-rocky traditions of the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas.
While their most famous tracks, the novelty hit "Walk Like an Egyptian" and the power ballad "Eternal Flame," were rather radio-friendly, their album cuts showcased a band wearing their Beatles badges proudly on their lapels.
After peaking commercially in the late '80s, the Bangles went their separate ways, occasionally reuniting since.

Apr. 2, 2010 Frank Spignese
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20100402TDY12T01.htm

+ buy cd
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Covers-Matthew-Sweet-Susanna/dp/B000EQ5QFE