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Critic's Notebook: 'The Smile Sessions' puts puzzle together

4917 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentThe new box set includes conversations and recordings from the Beach Boys' work on the mid-1960s project.Forty-five years ago this week at United Western Recorders, near Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, along with a ra... more info

Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings

4919 days ago
Chicago TribuneThe Beach Boys' "Smile" is the album that haunted Brian Wilson for four decades. more info

Q&A: Brian Wilson Is 'Thrilled' For The Release Of 'The Smile Sessions Box Set'

4920 days ago
StarpulseDespite never seeing release, The Beach Boys’ unfinished 1967 album SMiLE persevered. Intrepid Beach Boys fans created their own versions of the album cobbled together from album tracks and bootleg... more info

Album review: The Beach Boys' 'The Smile Sessions'

4921 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissArtists rarely are the best judges of their own work, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is no exception. “Probably nothing I’ve ever done has topped the music I made with Van Dyke [Parks],” Wilson writes in the handsome... more info

Official version of Beach Boys' 'Smile' is released

4921 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentThe influential 'lost' album is officially released 44 years late because of the persistence of Brian Wilson."The Velvet Underground's first album only sold 10,000 copies," Brian Eno's famous quote posits, "but everyone who bought it formed a band." ... more info

Stream The Beach Boys’ SMiLE Sessions

4921 days ago
StereogumBrian Wilson’s “lost” classic is getting its deluxe release, and you can stream all 40 tracks over at Spinner. And it comes not a moment too soon, for we live in a world where a Google Images search for “Brian Wilson Halloween” nets a ton o... more info

Brian Wilson discusses his new 'In the Key of Disney'

4925 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissBrian Wilson's latest album explores classic songs 'In the Key of Disney.' Brian Wilson applies his signature Beach Boy harmonies and arrangements to classics from the Disney film archives. more info

The Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions – review

4925 days ago
Guardian MusicEMIFew albums are as mythic as the Beach Boys' Smile. One of the most romantic of the myths holds that, had the album come out as intended in 1967 – instead of being abandoned unfinished until it was ostensibly completed by Brian Wilson and his lat... more info

Listen Up: Toby Keith, Vince Gill, more

4928 days ago
USA Today MusicHow did new releases from Toby Keith, Thomas Dolby, Vince Gill and Brian Wilson fare with our critics? more info

Readers recommend: songs about toys – results

4932 days ago
Guardian MusicBears, balloons, and dolls that look like Nick Cave. You were game for songs about toysHey, kids! Enjoy it while you can. Last week I asked you to nominate the best songs about toys. And it seems that the temporary nature of play – and of childhood... more info

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