Articles tagged "brian wilson"

Capsule Reviews

The Beach Boys: Summer Love Songs

by Evan Sawdey

[11.Aug.09] :. Don't break out the flip-flops quite yet: This fine and servicable Beach Boys compilation hits only a couple of highlights (along with some excellent album cuts), but isn't much in terms of a cohesive listening experience.

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Sound Affects

Musical Genius & Its Discontents (i): American Style

by G E Light

[21.Jul.09] :. F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong. Artists as various as Roky Erickson, Brian Wilson and Shuggie Otis prove there are second acts in American popular music.

Sound Affects

 

Music DVD Review

Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun

by Thomas Britt

[22.Feb.09] :. Wilson’s not making a comeback. He doesn't need to be resurrected. He's simply ready for the next take.

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Music DVD Review

Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun

by Joshua O'Neill

[11.Feb.09] :. A live-in-the-studio performance bundled with a hackneyed making-of documentary that doubles as a lengthy commercial for Capitol Records.

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Sound Affects

A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson: The Beach Boys - “Busy Doin’ Nothin’”

by Matt White

[29.Jan.09] :. The shadow of Pet Sounds loomed large on the Beach Boys after it was released in 1966. How do you follow-up one of the greatest, if not THE greatest album of all-time? Well, with Smile...

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News

After finishing his long-lost ‘Smile,’ Beach Boys guru returns with a tribute to Los Angeles

by Jon Bream [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[18.Nov.08] :. 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...

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Live From Abbey Road - Episode 12

by Christel Loar

[4.Sep.08] :. The twelfth, and final, episode of Season Two of Live from Abbey Road (Sundance Channel, Thursday, September 4, at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific) is what all 11 of the previous amazing...

 

Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun

by Michael Keefe

[2.Sep.08] :. Melodically strong and flat-out enjoyable from start to finish, That Lucky Old Sun is Brian Wilson's love letter to a bygone Southern California and his best freshly-penned album in over 40 years.

 

Brian Wilson performs That Lucky Old Sun @ The Sydney Festival

by Dan Raper

[16.Jan.08] :. With something like 80 events, the Sydney Festival is the city’s most definitive claim to world-class culture. So imagine the excitement I feel when I find a couple of tickets to Brian Wilson waiting.

 

40 years later, Brian Wilson catches a wave to Monterey

by Mac McDonald [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Jun.07] :. MONTEREY, Calif.—After almost 40 years, Brian Wilson is finally coming to Monterey. The Beach Boys co-founder, chief songwriter/producer/arranger, guiding light and lightning rod will perform...

 

Inside the Music of Brian Wilson by Philip Lambert

by Adam Bunch

[29.Mar.07] :. It's the ultimate in the band A = band B + band C style of music criticism, and it grows old quickly.

 

Brian Wilson

by Lou Friedman

[29.Aug.05] :. If there was poetic justice, this show would have been filled. Hell, this is THE BEACH, yet the amphitheatre was only 1/3 full. It's a blasted shame...

 

Brian Wilson: Smile

by Adam Williams

[13.Oct.04] :. Thirty-eight years. That’s how long it has taken for the album Smile to be completed. Conceptualized at the peak of the Beach Boys’ popularity in 1966, the album originally...

 

Brian Wilson

by David Fufkin

[29.Jul.00] :. , the enigmatic leader of The Beach Boys, one of the great pop composers of this century.