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Japan's Boris and Florida's Torche have made careers proving that huge, heavy music doesn't have to be big dumb metal; both bands combine artistry and creativity to inject color into the often dull palette of ...

Japan's Boris and Florida's Torche have made careers proving that huge, heavy music doesn't have to be big dumb metal; both bands combine artistry and creativity to inject color into the often dull palette of ...

An EP of four songs shouldn't take three years to make. Then again, it took Brian Wilson 38 years to finally Smile and My Bloody Valentine took two years to reveal how Loveless they really were.

Brian Wilson, the genius behind The Beach Boys, the troubled soul who staged one of the most miraculous comebacks in rock history, recently recorded a new work that he feels is even better than his revered ...

FEW would dispute that Brian Wilson is the genius of the Beach Boys. Hits such as Good Vibrations , Wouldn't It Be Nice , the Pet Sounds album and the ill-fated Smile have cemented his reputation as a madcap ...

Andrew Perry reviews Brian Wilson at the Albert Hall When Brian Wilson completed his legendary unfinished masterpiece, Smile, four years ago, he doubtless didn't anticipate the next obstacle ahead of him.

After Brian Wilson completed the Beach Boys' watershed album Pet Sounds in 1966, he started work on Smile , which would be his "teenage symphony to God." While the album was never officially released , Wilson ...

Good vibrations are coming to Kenwood with Brian Wilson The Beach Boys legend tells Marc Mullen he can't wait to swap the California sunshine for English weather when he performs at Kenwood House this summer ...

SFTW MEETS BRIAN WILSON TODAY is Brian Wilson's 66th birthday and it's a safe bet he won't be setting aside a new aspect of his daily routine.

Reviewed by Jason Heller June 17th, 2008 If The Explorers Club sounded exactly like Joy Division or Gang Of Four, the band would get ripped apart by folks so bloated on a decade of post-punk necrophilia that ...

For Beach Boys people - and you know who you are - "Pacific Ocean Blue" occupies a special place.

Low Brow Cyndi Lauper Bring Ya To The Brink Cyndi's 1984 debut, She's So Unusual, spawned a million side-pony-tailed technicolor dance parties and, a quarter-century later, Brink will probably set off a million ...

The Webstirs released "Smirk" in 1995, its title a nod toward Brian Wilson's "Smile." But by the time the erstwhile Beach Boy's "lost masterpiece" finally arrived in 2004, the Webstirs were well into a ...

Brian Wilson is a genius pure and simple.

Smile was originally intended to be the follow-up project to Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks worked on the Smile album for months. The project was never finished as Brian Wilson's increasing health problems forced its abandonment. Various songs from Smile appeared on Beach Boys albums during the next decade. The complete Smile...

“Brian Wilson is an iconic talent with enormous musical influence all over the world and we are very proud to be representing him”

Brian Wilson extends his personal and creative renaissance of the last decade with an ambitious new themed album, 'That Lucky Old Sun,' a work to be released in September exploring the Southern California ... via Los Angeles Times

“Toy Soldier"), and "I'm choosing to leave with your heart on my sleeve; it feels too good without you”

By Chuck Campbell Friday, May 16, 2008 Sometimes creativity all comes together - WAVES & THE BOTH OF US' a- Charlotte Sometimes a- Rating: a ...a ...a ...a ... Charlotte Sometimes is one of those smart, ... via Knoxville News Sentinel

Everclear has always been one of those bands that is tragically better than their ill-conceived '90s contemporaries, but that doesn't necessarily mean they should be associated with greatness. via The Badger Herald Online

Dewey Cox rocks. And drinks. And does drugs. And sleeps with any number of women. via Army Times

“Smile"-induced hysteria and came out the other side as the elder Cash, concluding his "Beautiful Ride”

FRESH CHOPS: John C. Reilly exhibits genuine musical acumen in his fanciful pop creation, Dewey Cox. via Variety.com

Typically, April showers bring May flowers, but blooming could be harder after the downpour of arrows, tanks, napalm, and other destructively bad-ass things that comes when Boris release a new album next April ... via Pitchfork