July 2012
28 posts
Rolling Stone "10 Coolest Summer Albums of...
Brian Wilson and crew specialized in summer concept albums – All Summer Long in 1964, Today and Summer Days in 1965, the decidedly more downbeat Pet Sounds in 1966. But Wild Honey is where the Beach Boys really capture the grimy feel of beer-soaked California sand under your feet, even if they released it in December 1967. It cruises through the yearning Carl Wilson soul of “Aren’t...
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‘Hey, Wilson’ says Mike Love, placing his hand gently on Brian Wilson’s forearm. “Hey, Love,” says Wilson, brightly, as his cousin slides into the booth next to him. “You were great last night,” Love says. “Animated. Ani-fuckin’-mated.” Wilson beams. “Gracias, amigo. Our harmonies – we sound good together.”
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Rolling Stone Playlist: The Beach Boys "Pacific...
Brian Wilson performs in Chicago, Illinois
“Sunlight’s fading, and there’s not much left to say,” Brian Wilson sings on this perfectly melancholy, Smile-ish ditty – part of the seriously moving medley that closes out the Beach Boys’ new LP, That’s Why God Made The Radio. Listen to “Pacific Coast Highway”:
The Beach Boys: Back catching another wave
Brian and the ‘Boys featured on CBS Sunday Morning:
(CBS News) For at least two generations now, the musical sound track to summer fun has been provided by The Beach Boys. Their good vibrations have survived many a pop music trend, and they’ve even triumphed over some bad vibes among the band members themselves.
A few notes and you know immediately: It’s a sound as...
"That's Why God Made The Radio" vinyl now...
It’s the Beach Boys highest album debut ever on Billboard (#3) and the vinyl version is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Release date is August 14, 2012.
Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 studio album from the reunited California Pop outfit led by Brian Wilson, their first new studio material in over two decades. Celebrating their 50th Anniversary, all surviving members came together to...
Phoenix News Times: Beach Boys, Grand Canyon...
50 songs for 50 years. It’s hard to imagine any band getting away with it, right?
It’s even harder to imagine it being exceptional, but that’s the best word I can use to describe what The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston, and their crack nine-piece backing band) did last night at Grand Canyon University.
Beach balls bounced in the...
Beach Boys Reunion Offers 'Fun, Fun, Fun" and Real... →
Arizona Central review of the July 7 show in Phoenix AZ
The Beach Boys Show Phoenix They're Still Cruisin'
They were a band. Take them for all in all. We shall not look upon their like again. With apologies to Shakespeare, watching The Beach Boys perform Saturday night, July 7, 2012 at the Grand Canyon University Arena, one felt as if they were witnessing history. Here was The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and the new kid who joined the band in 1965, Bruce Johnston,...
“We took about two months to do the new album. When we heard the harmonies on the...”
– Brian Wilson
Virginia Review: Beach Boys Make the Old Sound... →
Brian Wilson provided the show’s most touching moment, when he sang “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times.”
Good Vibrations as Brian Wilson Reinforces Beach...
Buffalo News
DARIEN LAKE - Why were the Beach Boys playing at Darien Lake, and not at a ballpark, as has been their wont for decades?
Because Brian Wilson was in the house. That’s a game-changer, for anyone who has followed this band’s odd trajectory through the history of American popular music. He is both the Beethoven and Stravinsky of rock, the man who could hear the most...
Brian Wilson Puts Paul McCartney in Awe
FROM SKY NEWS
Sir Paul McCartney ‘lost it’ when he got to perform with Brian Wilson.
The Beatles legend sang at a charity concert on the Beach Boys star’s hit ‘God Only Knows’ and admits he was very overwhelmed by the opportunity.
He explained: ‘We were doing a benefit together, and I was OK on the actual performance, I held it together, but at the sound...
Beach Boys 50th Anniversary tour catches a...
As fans filed into DTE Energy Music Theater’s amphitheater for the Beach Boys 50th Anniversary show Saturday, a pair of long legs ending in Nikes could be seen at the side of the stage. The legs belonged to Brian Wilson, who was sitting at stage left, just out of view to most of the seats.
The heart and soul of the Beach Boys, composer/auteur Wilson sat waiting patiently – or was it...
“In the end, Brian Wilson never really fit in … he expressed himself the only way...”
– Steven Van Zandt
Oren Moverman Says His Brian Wilson Biopic Script...
Oren Moverman has completed a script for a Brian Wilson biopic, and he’s proud to report is “pretty much done.” “Unlike the Kurt Cobain thing,” he said, referencing another biopic project that fell apart, ”there is a general feeling that an unconventional storytelling approach is the way to go.”
Moverman hopes to place the audience inside the Beach...
