Chicago Sun-Times, IL — As teens their musical tastes boomeranged from Radiohead, Bjork and the Beach Boys to Lauren Hill and the Beatles and Bob Dylan. more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — [Jeff The Brotherhood at Music Hall of Williamsburg] Every summer it seems that the Northside Festival is making strides to become even bigger than the last. This year’s festival featured some of their biggest McCarren Park headliners yet, with tic... more info

Stereogum — Beck, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, the Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan, Goldfrapp’s Davide Rossi, and a bunch of other musicians formed a one-off supergroup y... more info

TMZ — One of The Beach Boys guitarist Carl Wilson's prized, and extremely unique, instruments is hitting the auction block ... and it's got a lot in common with strippers.  The axe is called "The Mod" ... and Carl primarily used it while they… more info

Chorus.fm — Brian Wilson recently sat down with NPR for an interview. While there’s much to process from his past, Wilson is living in the present, touring with a band for the 50th anniversary of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. (“I feel pretty good,” he says... more info

Stereogum — Chuck Berry sons them all. Elvis, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles — if they picked up a guitar and called their music rock ‘n’ roll, Berry’s influence is undeniable as a progenitor of the genre. Berry was 29 when Leonard Chess... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn's Sam Kogon, who has worked with members of The Left Banke and The Beach Boys, releases his new album this month on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. Listen to the new single, a collaboration with Frankie Cosmos... Continue reading… more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, so it’s hard to get a bead on a contemporary “West Coast sound.” The region has long been known for a breezy, laid-back vibe that connects cool jazz, the Beach Boys, the women and men o... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, so it’s hard to get a bead on a contemporary “West Coast sound.” The region has long been known for a breezy, laid-back vibe that connects cool jazz, the Beach Boys, the women and men o... more info

Chicago Tribune — Despite a bounty of hits that have endured long past the surf-sun-cars-girls era in which they were created, and at least one album widely regarded as a masterpiece, the Beach Boys story is inseparable from turmoil and tragedy. Now two key figures in... more info