September 2010
2 posts
Music legend Van Dyke Parks returns to Pittsburgh
“This is my first tour as a grown-up,” Parks says. “I’m a entertainer all of a sudden! I’m 67 years old. By the spring of next year, I’ll have an album out. I want to see if I can get prepared for that by taking a tour to a bunch of illustrious places that I never would have imagined, like the Grand Rapids Ladies Literary Society. I’m playing some small...
Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson lets the music heal... →
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Brian Wilson remembers the first time he heard George Gershwin’s music.
“I was 2 years old, and my grandmother played it for me,” Wilson said in a recent interview. “I remember how much I loved it. I couldn’t think. When you’re 2 years old, you can’t think, but it really blew my mind.”
October 2009
2 posts
“Yeah, there’s no outstanding legal fracases going on, which is a good thing...”
– Mike Love
Beach Boys in Las Vegas, baby →
“It’s original members Mike Love, Mike Love, Mike Love and, um, Mike Love — who even in this current incarnation can’t along get with one another — perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Star of the Desert Arena at Buffalo Bill’s, Interstate 15 South at Primm. Tickets are $38.45-$54.95; call 1-800-386-7867.”
December 2008
19 posts
The Wages of Spin →
Character Driven Productions is now selling director Shawn Swords’ documentary “The Wages of Spin,” about the Philadelphia music scene between 1952 and 1963 and about “American Bandstand” host Dick Clark’s pay-for-play activities from which he emerged unscathed. The film features interviews with Chubby Checker, Connie Francis, Fabian, Jerry Blavat, Frankie...
“Personally I’m not looking at a ‘next album’ for me. I focus...”
– BBB Message Board
MySpace.com - Beach Boys Drive →
“Coming Soon” Welcome to the definitive Beach Boys guidebook. The places listed are a patchwork quilt across time chronicling a career spanning over four decades. It encompasses their rich history from the embryonic beginnings of the group to the final resting places of deceased band members.
Rivers Cuomo : Alone II: The Home Recordings of... →
But Cuomo’s cover of the Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby” is astounding and affirms where all those surf songs from the The Blue Album. Actually, it’s surprising that it’s taken this long for Cuomo to bust out a Beach Boys cover in concert or on record. It’s not only a great cover but educational in citing his influences as an artist.
Classic artists unite for War Child →
Heroes is released by Parlophone on February 16, with all profits going to the War Child charity, which protects marginalised children in war zones. For the album, a number of artists have chosen a favourite song from their own songwriting canon and nominated an artist from the next generation to create a modern reworking of the classic. Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Clash, The...
“Tomlin paid tribute to Tharp, 67. “We shouldn’t let this supple...”
– Six artists get capital salute at Kennedy Center - USATODAY.com
“It might not be beach weather outside, but The Beach Boys are sure to heat up...”
– lehighvalleylive.com
Interactive “The Beach Boys” Song Title Game →
Beach Boys to play at Jacksonville Amphitheatre... →
The Beach Boys Band featuring Mike Love and Bruce Johnston play Friday, April 24. Sale date for the tickets, $35-$75, has not been announced.
'Cadillac Records' takes a greatest-hits approach →
Both the script and soundtrack touch on the basics, which are undeniably vital. But surely Martin could have given us more than a Best Of tour: Alan Lomax finds Waters at a Mississippi shack. James records “At Last.” Berry gets ripped off by the Beach Boys. And ironically, the director is so determined to pack in as much as possible, she ends up playing fast and loose with facts while...
“Mug shots of Mos Def as Chuck Berry from his arrest for driving with a white...”
– www.baltimoreexaminer.com » Entertainment
Grammy Museum: Brian Wilson Highlighted In January →
Come early 2009, the new Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles will play host to a series of public events, the centerpiece of which will be a chat and performance by Brian Wilson on Jan. 15.
An Evening With Brian Wilson (Jan. 15, 8 p.m.) Santelli will interview the legendary artist, who will give the first public concert in the museum’s 200-seat theater. The session promises a Q&A with...
Brian Wilson 'That Lucky Old Sun' DVD To Be...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Capitol/ EMI) - Capitol/EMI will release a new Brian Wilson DVD entitled That Lucky Old Sun on January 27, 2009. A companion to Wilson’s critically-acclaimed That Lucky Old Sun album, released September 2 on CD, vinyl and digitally, the DVD features more than two and a half hours of content, including a full-length live performance of the album, a new...
“Love insisted his relationship with his cousin is fine. “I get along great with...”
– Worcester Telegram & Gazette News
“At 67, Love was quick to point out that Tony Bennett still performs at the age...”
– Surf to the Beach Boys - Norwalk News - The Hour
Beach Boys track backs BBH ad for LG →
“Set to ‘Good Vibrations’ by the Beach Boys, the BBH ad shows a dark living room is lit up by a range of gadgets, which emerge from behind an LG TV.”
November 2008
26 posts
Can the Beach Boys save the Charleston Regatta? →
In the festival’s heyday in the 1980s, businesses chipped in the money to bring in such acts as Alabama, the Beach Boys and Ray Charles. But private sources have dried up, and last year, city taxpayers covered more than a third of the roughly $370,000 cost of staging the Regatta.
Al Jardine's Big Sur Christmas →
Beach Boys Bring Christmas To PA →
The Beach Boys Christmas Show,
8 p.m. Dec. 7,
Penn’s Peak, Penn Forest Township,
866-605-7325.
“The weekend’s weather in London may have been inclement and downright...”
– Inara George & Van Dyke Parks Charm London! - News - Mojo
Brian Wilson Goes To Long Island →
BRIAN WILSON. The mastermind brings his pet sounds to Long Island.
WHEN|WHERE 8 p.m. today, Capital One Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury
INFO $60-$75; 516-334-0800
“Brian Wilson, Sweet Insanity — From the mid-’70s to the early...”
– Lost albums that should remain lost - Music - SF Weeklypage 1 - SF Weekly
“Beach Boys replace Pavement as indie kids’ most imitated band. For far too...”
– Barack, Beach Boys and Britney: Giving thanks in 2008
Vivian Girls Launch Label, Cover Beach Boys on New... →
Boy, have those Vivian Girls got a whole lot of fun for you…a whole pack of it, in fact! The Vivs’ latest 7”, “Surf’s Up!”, has dropped via their very own new label Wild World. In tribute to mirth and merriment and all that crap, they’re issuing the thing as a “Fun Pack”. Not only will you get the single— which also sports new jam...
Beach Boys drummer Rory Blackwell →
He recorded more than 30 singles and LPs, was a session drummer with several top bands, played with the Beach Boys and John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, toured with many other American top acts, appeared in films, and moved on to become an entertainer and smashed many quirky world records for playing musical instruments.
Rory enjoyed his session work, and recalled: “Some quite famous...
WFMU 11/22/2008 Radio Interview with Brian Wilson →
Guy Peellaert, painter of rocks' mythology, dies... →
Guy Peellaert, a Belgian painter-collagist whose fervid imagination produced surreal album covers for John Lennon, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, as well as images for a seminal book about rock mythology, “Rock Dreams,” died of kidney cancer Nov. 17 at a hospital in Paris. He was 74.
The book was a collaboration with the prominent British rock journalist Nik Cohn, who wrote how they...
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Brian Wilson brings his boys to Westbury →
BETTER THAN THE BEACH BOYS? We’ll see, but that’s what Wilson says. “There’s some Beach Boys influence, but this is a much better band.” Despite disputes with his cousin and original Beach Boy, Mike Love, none of the old songs are off-limits, Wilson says. Expect to hear 18 to 20 Beach Boys hits and all of the new album - even spoken interludes by Van Dyke Parks. Among...
Beach Boys will perform holiday show at the Klein... →
The Beach Boys will bring their “Kokomo Christmas Show” to Bridgeport on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. at the Klein Memorial Auditorium, 910 Fairfield Ave.
Tickets are $47 to $82, with a $10 discount for Fairfield Theatre Company members. Doors will open at 7. Buy tickets at fairfieldtheatre.org or by calling 203-259-1036.
Good vibrations for cancer patients at fundraiser →
At 67, Mr. Love is likely a peer to many in the audience that night; however he teased the group about being too subdued.
“Everybody is a little bit sedate tonight,” he said at one point, offering to play a medley of hits by Barry Manilow and Perry Como.
That reserve was cracked when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member invited the crowd to wave their open cell phones to the beat...
Brian Wilson takes off on a musical flight of... →
First in line: Steve Callahan, a 53-year-old drummer, shared a bill with the Beach Boys during the ’70s and got every band member — except Wilson, who didn’t play the concert — to give him an autograph. Callahan bought front-row tickets last week and brought his copy of 1965’s The Beach Boys Today! “I’m here to hear him sing,” Callahan said, “but I want...
Top Songwriter Pens New Book →
Rand Bishop, BMI Award-winning songwriter who has written songs for such acts as Toby Keith and the Beach Boys, will release a new book on songwriting during a special Dec. 4 launch day at amazon.com.
What song did he write for the Beach Boys?
They Say It's Your Birthday | 40 years later, "The... →
McElroy’s twin brother and bandmate, Brian McElroy, mentioned the sentiment the first track on the album engendered among those with no sense of irony. “After ‘Back in the U.S.S.R,’ everybody suddenly thought they were commies,” Bruce McElroy said. “But in fact, that was a song that Mike Love from the Beach Boys helped them with. What’s more American and...
Brian Wilson at the Warner Theater →
“That Lucky Old Sun” credits Wilson with lead vocals, but that overstates his onstage role. His singing was bolstered by as many as eight other voices, including something the Beach Boys never had: a soprano. Taylor Mills helped buoy the high harmonies, but it was guitarist Jeffrey Foskett who handled most of the falsetto parts. While Wilson said the group was “just...
California Dreaming: Song Cycle Finds Brian Wilson... →
Q: What’s up next for you after this tour?
BW: I think I’m going to go into production and try to do a new album.
Q: Do you have any material written?
BW: Yeah, I’ve got a few songs written.
Q: Any idea what direction you’re going in with this?
BW: No, I do not know.
Bee Gees' sprawling 'Odessa' set for reissue →
The Bee Gees’ 1969 double album “Odessa” has been expanded for a 40th anniversary reissue, due Jan. 13. The three-disc set includes stereo and mono mixes of the project, plus 22 unreleased tracks from the period.
“Odessa” was recorded in New York and London as the Bee Gees were ascending to stardom around the world. Perhaps inspired by ambitious, artsy albums of the...
Jan & Dean: The Complete Liberty Singles →
Liberty Singles begins at the tail end of Jan & Dean’s first phase: clean-cut, preppy proprietors of innocuous bomp-bomp-bomp, dip-dip-dip 45’s. “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “Tennessee” are jumpy little larks, but Jan & Dean are already seeming bored and repetitive. Their ballads are yawns (ballads will be an Achilles’ heel throughout), and their self-referential B-sides—-the boastful...
POB named Mojo magazine's Reissue of the Year (via... →
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