Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Who better to bring a VIP group of Buckeyes and Longhorns together for some ''Good Vibrations'' the night before the big Tostitos Fiesta Bowl than Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys icon?
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
By: Scott Caffrey Ah yeah, this is the stuff. Friends, the world is indeed a better place now that Brian Wilson is back making his own music again. I don't mean to over-speak, but American music just wasn't the same without its greatest songwriter having a legitimate presence. When you spin That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol Records), do yourself the favor of focusing on the music first. Sounds simple, but...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Girl Don't Tell Me (French Version) From: Caroline Now! The Songs of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys , 2000. MP3 File
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
Please come to The Living Room/Googie's Lounge located at 154 Ludlow Street New York , NY, 10002 January 12th at 7pm for a one hour set . Admission is free. The pianist ---now finishing up his 6th CD for Rising Rose Records --- has been compared to Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Patricia Barber, The Beatles, Van Dyke Parks, Mose Allison, and Sun Ra-- but as All About Jazz said in its review of Rising Rose...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1964: Brian Wilson has a panic attack on board a flight during a Beach Boys tour, which leads to his quitting the road for several years. The Almanac Advises for December 23: "A fear of flying can often be overcome through techniques... Read more
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analys (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys: Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world. There is another interpretation of "catch a wave". That interpretation is Elliott Wave. I talked about waves at length on October 10th in S&P 500 Crash Count . Non E-Wavers can skip to the end for another idea about how and when bear market rallies end. Here is a clip from the above link after which there will be an update...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
Let’s leave Pet Sounds alone for a while. Can we? Please? It’s been a good 20 years since Brian Wilson’s orchestral-pop opus of vanishing innocence became a de rigueur name drop for every self-identifying “music connoisseur.” Let’s move on to Pacific Ocean Blue , the 1977 solo album from Dennis Wilson, the only Beach Boy who surfed, a former Charles Manson pal, and a drunk of some note at the time...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
Brian Wilson's latest album, That Lucky Old Sun, lives up to his legacy of symphonic and woozy California pop. Catch him and other artists at these upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. The Palladium Taste of Chaos Tour, Thursday, Feb. 14; Disturbed, Jan. 29 (Sat.)...
http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Newsday is a song cycle based on a tune with its spiritual roots in slavery. That song is about hardship, but this semi-autobiographical work is about nostalgia — what life in California means to Wilson… Read the full article here
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Brian Wilson’s That Lucky Old Sun tour recently descended on New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom and Rolling Stone was there for an exclusive look as the band prepared to take the stage. Watch as Wilson and his band mates discuss their pre-concert rituals, catering tray favorites and Wilson’s own desire to sit in the audience hours [...]
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Here's something for Beach Boys fans to look forward to in 2009: Capitol/EMI will release Brian Wilson's Lucky Old Sun DVD on January 27th. The DVD features over two hours of content, including a full live performance, commentary by Brian Wilson and songwriting partner Scott Bennett, and a feature-length documenatary called Going Home . The Lucky Old Sun DVD is to accompany the album of the same name,...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
I’m a big Beach Boys fan. More specifically, like a lot of people, I’m a big Brian Wilson fan. So when I hear a track like “Feet of Lead, Wings of Tin” (a previously unreleased track from Portland’s Oh Captain My Captain that will appear on Bladen County Records’ 10-year anniversary compilation), I dig the [...]
prefix (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
In honor of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy, which until last week had “lost album” written all over it, Seattle Weekly has picked seven albums they hope stay lost. Among the ...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Brian Wilson: Sweet Insanity Forget SMiLE . The real curio locked away inside the lab of the Beach Boy boffin is this 1991 solo album, the culmination of Wilson's unethical business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy. Fro...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
It was Brian Wilson who started it all. Back in 2002, the musical genius behind the Beach Boys toured Britain with a fabulous multi-tasking band in a series of shows in which the centrepiece was a performance of the classic Beach Boys album Pet Sounds, played in its entirety. Wilson looked like a rabbit trapped in the headlights, but still: it was musical bliss.
