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Win Big: The Beach Boys “SMiLE Sessions”

5300 days ago

Twangville — SMiLE may be the most famous album never heard. After unleashing Pet Sounds, arguably one of the greatest albums ever recorded, Brian Wilson wanted to further explore the complex and innovative recording techniques of that release. Painstakingly reco... more info

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

5304 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The 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

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

5307 days ago

Chicago Tribune — The Beach Boys' "Smile" is the album that haunted Brian Wilson for four decades. more info

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

5308 days ago

Starpulse — Despite 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

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

5308 days ago

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Artists 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

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Official version of Beach Boys' 'Smile' is released

5308 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The 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

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Stream The Beach Boys’ SMiLE Sessions

5308 days ago

Stereogum — Brian 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

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

5313 days ago

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Brian 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

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The Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions – review

5313 days ago

Guardian Music — EMIFew 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

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