L.A. Times - Entertainment — Putting a fledgling band under the microscope by examining every moment of its earliest work generally falls under the same bit of wisdom often applied to brain surgery, sausage-making and journalism: important activities in the grand scheme... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Putting a fledgling band under the microscope by examining every moment of its earliest work generally falls under the same bit of wisdom often applied to brain surgery, sausage-making and journalism: important activities in the grand scheme... more info

Impose Magazine — They say that the original is always the best, but they doesn’t mean variation isn’t awesome too. Ben Talmi has just released a cover of “Girls On The Beach” by the Beach Boys, and he takes it in a completely different direction. Talmi is a b... more info

Detroit Free Press — The Beach Boys and Hank Williams Jr. pay a visit to metro Detroit this week.             more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — What's the most innovative  year ever for rock 'n' roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular music broadly defined as rock. There's 1954, the... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — What's the most innovative  year ever for rock 'n' roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular music broadly defined as rock. There's 1954, the... more info

Core News — “Stuart Maconie travels to the furthest flung corners of left-field music to create a playlist that makes you rock back on your heels with the sounds of newness and difference. This weeks featured album is Song Cycle, the first solo album from Van ... more info

NME — Featuring former Beach Boys bandmates and high-profile guests more info

Nialler9 — Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon  Tuesday July 19 Ruby Sessions:  Bad Sea / Eve Belle / Where Seas Collide, The Bootleg Beach Boys @ Doyle’s (€6, 9pm) [Acoustic showcase] Read my interview with Cono... more info

Chicago Tribune — It was a weekend when a Beach Boys legend seemed to drift away before our eyes and four women from the U.K. stood dressed in black against the hot afternoon sun and played like their lives depended on it. There were young artists who weren’t ready ... more info