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A couple more concerts to add to your social calendar, and a few rumors worth sharing: ROCK: 94.1 The Zone's Bonzai! w/Sevendust, Street Sweeper Social , Tantric, Sick Puppies, Framing Hanley, Smile Empty Soul, The Gay Blades Sunday, August 9. Riverside Festival Site, Court and Exchange streets.

There has been a minor vogue over the last few years for musicians reassessing the recordings of their youth.

Wilson, has announced a very special evening at the Roundhouse in London on Thursday, September 3. The concert comes just a week after the co-founder of The Beach Boys received the Best International Act at last week's Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Awards.

California's first pop genius tells Will Hodgkinson how gospel, harmony and a song on the radio that started it all Brian Wilson photographed in London W1, 2 July 2009.

The Jayhawks 'Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology' American/Legacy Formed in Minneapolis in 1985 while heavily under the influence of the late Gram Parsons, The Jayhawks built their initial sound on the brilliant songwriting and clear-water, sibling-like harmonies of Mark Olson and Gary Louris.