Features
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Part 3: From Perfume Genius to Xiu Xiu
Slipped Discs continues with the return of a legendary power pop band, previously unreleased Springsteen gems, the resurrection of '60s British folk rock sounds, loads of indie rockers and many more. All records that missed our top 70 list last year.
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Reviews
Wednesday, August 18 2010
Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
This isn’t quite the triumph one would have hoped, with a few awkward missteps and some vocal performances that don’t honor the past as much as they make it seem like an awfully long time ago. But there’s enough happening here to make the project more than worthwhile.
Monday, February 23 2009
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
Wilson’s not making a comeback. He doesn't need to be resurrected. He's simply ready for the next take.
Wednesday, February 11 2009
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
A live-in-the-studio performance bundled with a hackneyed making-of documentary that doubles as a lengthy commercial for Capitol Records.
Tuesday, September 2 2008
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
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.
Wednesday, January 16 2008
Brian Wilson performs That Lucky Old Sun @ The Sydney Festival
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.
Blogs
Tuesday, July 21 2009
Musical Genius & Its Discontents (i): American Style
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.
News
Friday, November 4 2011
Brian Wilson’s lost ‘Smile’ album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings
CHICAGO — The Beach Boys’ “Smile” is the album that haunted Brian Wilson for four decades. The unfinished Beach Boys work devastated Wilson even though…
Tuesday, August 17 2010
Putting the Brian Wilson touch on the Gershwin canon was a dream that took a lifetime to realize
LOS ANGELES — As Brian Wilson remembers it, the head Beach Boy was still a beach toddler the first time he heard George Gershwin's "Rhapsody…
Tuesday, November 18 2008
After finishing his long-lost ‘Smile,' Beach Boys guru returns with a tribute to Los Angeles
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…
Tuesday, June 5 2007
40 years later, Brian Wilson catches a wave to Monterey
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…
