Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
At his creative peak, Beach Boys auteur Brian Wilson retired from touring to concentrate on composition and production. Fighting back from a late-'60s nervous breakdown, Wilson returned to touring in 1999. Yet at concerts like the one he played Tuesday at the Warner Theatre, Wilson seems hardly...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Smiling liberated Brian Wilson. The act of completing his pop opus "Smile," 37 years after he'd abandoned it, suddenly reopened the creative floodgates for the reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,...
Culture Bully (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Twin Cities News: — How Was The Show reviews the Bill Mike Band’s CD release show. — City Pages reviews Brian Wilson’s State Theatre show. — While presumably wearing women’s clothing, Prince gives it up for Prop 8. — Radio K has tossed a few more in-studio sessions online, including My Brightest Diamond and The Giraffes. — The Wake interviews [...]
City Pages - Culture To Go (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
The haunted genius of the Beach Boys speaks, though briefly.
larry borsato (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
I've been listening to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys since I was a little kid, and it never fails to brighten my no matter what else is happening. But by far the nicest song I've heard in a long time is Southern California from Brian's new album That Lucky Old Sun. It's a sweet ballad about his life with the Beach Boys and how dreams do come true. It does seem to make me want to be in California...
http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Market Wire Beach Boy Brian Wilson's concert at the Ryman Auditorium on Monday night was expected to be more of a celebration of the man's work than your usual concert experience. Wilson - who, after decades of … Read the full article here
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
The event:Brian Wilson launched his That Lucky Old Sun tour Monday. Fans paid $42.50 to $62.50 to attend opening night at the ...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
LOS ANGELES -- It's always a risky venture for seasoned musicians to revisit the works of their youth. One recalls with dismay the Velvet Underground's "reunion" tour in the early 1990s, and Brian Wilson's live 2002 rerecording of the Beach Boys' 1966 song cycle "Pet Sounds" took a radiant and...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Music review: As if Prince, Bowie and Brian Wilson made an indie-pop album at the heights of their respective eccentricities.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
A 57-year-old Oxford-educated chemist is as giddy as a schoolboy when Brian Wilson, of Beach Boys fame, launches into yet another hit. The man turns to his son, who has taken him to the concert for his birthday, and blurts out: "That's what I want to do when I grow up."
Make Marketing History (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
In what I think they said was Phil Spector's first television interview for forty years, the "genius that other geniuses come to" described The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations as an "edit song". Since he contrasted this with his own composition "Be My Baby" (which Brian Wilson calls the greatest song ever written), I took him to mean that an "edit song" was one that couldn't be faithfully reproduced live...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
There are two glaring omissions in this week's Up & Coming concert listings: Swedish hypemachine it-girl Lykke Li and, well, French hypemachine it-girl (ca. 2007) Yelle . How did this happen? Well, somewhere between dropping acid with Of Montreal and time-travelling with Brian Wilson , these international ladies slipped through the cracks. Our apologies. But since these acts owe so much of their buzz...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Perhaps third time is the charm for Kyle Andrews as his latest album, Real Blasty has gotten quite the praise in the press: “Real Blasty is the breakthrough album.” - Timothy Zila, Patrol Magazine “This is a bed-room rock Brian Wilson of depth and character. Most highly recommended.” - Dot Shop His previous efforts, full lengther [...]
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
"Skin Deep" Nissan Live Sets has been doing a great job filling the void left by Don Kirshner's Rock Concert and ABC In Concert thirty years ago ('bout time too), sating our need for footage of musicians doing their thing on stage, uncut, raw. Brian Wilson and the Pretenders used it as an excuse to debut their new albums for American audiences, and Weezer seized the opportunity to jam with a room...
