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Michael Rault Is A California Man

July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 10cc, Canada, Daptone Records, Gene Clark, Harry Nilsson, Los Angeles, Michael Rault, Paul McCartney, The Beach Boys, The Point, Todd Rundgren, Wick Records, WITCH

Talking AM radio, Daptone Records and Harry Nilsson with one of the West Coast’s most talented pysch pop auteurs

Pop Rock

The Beach Boys: Celebrating 60 Years of Summer

July 4, 2022July 5, 2022 David Bash 0 Comments Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Sounds of Summer: 60th Anniversary Expanded Edition, The Beach Boys, Universal Music Enterprises

Looking at the pros and cons of the newly expanded Best Of set

Pop

Let Him Run Wild: Brian Wilson is 80

June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Andy Paley, Brian Wilson, Giant Records, Imagination, Joe Thomas, The Beach Boys

As the eternal Beach Boy hits a milestone, we look back at his maligned 1998 LP Imagination

Music Journalism

They Were There: Two Legendary Rock Writers Sitting Around Talking, Part One

May 19, 2022May 20, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments Big Brother and the Holding Company, CBGB, Crawdaddy!, Creem, Gene Sculatti, Hit Parader, Ira Robbins, Melody Maker, Mojo Navigator, Music Journalism, New York City, San Francisco, Talking Heads, Television, The Beach Boys, The Ramones, The Who Sell Out, Trouser Press

A candid conversation with Ira Robbins and Gene Sculatti

Art Pop Electronic Experimental Post-Punk

ALBUMS: Immersion Surrenders to Beauty, and Achieves Transcendence

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2021, Colin Newman, Dennis Wilson, Immersion, Krautrock, Laetitia Sadier, Malka Spigel, Nanocluster, Nanocluster Vol. 1, Pet Sounds, Robin Rimbaud, Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram, Scanner, Stereolab, Swim, Tarwater, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The White Album, Ulrich Schnauss, Wire

With the help of such collaborators as Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Tarwater and Scanner, Nanolcuster Vol. 1 is so beautiful, exotic, immediate and compelling as to defy description

Pop

ARCHIVES: The Real Feels (And Flows) Of The Beach Boys

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 David Bash 8 Comments “Sunflower”, 1970, 1971, Blondie Chaplin, Box sets, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Feel Flows, Mike Love, Surf's Up, The Beach Boys, The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

Inside the exquisite, better-than-perfect The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

Art Pop Irish Pop

“The Garbo of Pop”: Enya at 60

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 60th birthday, Caribbean Blue, Celtic, Clannad, Dark Sky Island, Enya, Ireland, Irish, Nicky Ryan, Orinoco Flow (Sail Away), Phil Spector, Shepherd Moons, The Beach Boys, The Celts, Volkswagen, Watermark

Jim Sullivan recalls his history in conversation with the Celtic Pop Queen

Pop

Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Pet Sounds at 55

May 17, 2021March 24, 2022 Trevor Seigler 2 Comments 1966, 55th Anniversary, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, God Only Knows, Mike Love, Pet Sounds, Sloop John B, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

In 1966, The Beach Boys went out on the road while Brian Wilson stayed behind and created their singular masterpiece

Pop Surf

The Beach Boys Bring The Family on New Project

May 1, 2021March 24, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment “Sunflower”, Add Some Music To Your Day, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Carnie Wilson, Mike Love, Omnivore Recordings, The Beach Boys, Wendy Wilson

Mike Love, Carnie Wilson and others talk about continuing the band’s legacy with a new collaborative project between original members and their children