ContactMusic — Rockstars and comedians hit the Hilton Hotel in New York City for the Friars Club Roast of Jack Black. Along with Black himself, Kiss star Gene... more info

Consequence of Sound — Or, "The Not Mike Love Tour" more info

Nialler9 — You can hear a lot of influential touchstones on Remember Saturday, the debut album from Conor Deasy’s pop band Biggles Flys Again. Beach Boys, Super Furry Animals and Neil Hannon, that sort of thing. Classic pop kind of music. Deasy himself has sa... more info

Chorus.fm — *The Beach Boys (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/the beach boys/)* are amazing. Watch them give "I Get Around" the 'ol Florence Foster Jenkins treatment in the replies. more info

411 Mania — Archive material hitting the auction block in London... more info

The Independent — The Beach Boys' songs of youth and romance won a worldwide audience and fame to rival the Beatles. Now an archive of material, spanning the first two decades of their career and revealing how some of the songs were created, is to be auctioned in Lon... more info

KEXP Seattle — LA-natives Allah-Las are about as LA sounding as a car ride through the desert - their sound wasn’t made for riding the waves, but for steaming on the beach. Beautiful guitar notes ripple out of a haze of vocal harmonies reminiscent of The Beach Bo... more info

Pitchfork - Album Reviews — A few months ago, when Young Dreams covered a song by former tourmates Tame Impala, they renamed it “Feels Like We Only Go Bachwards”. The pun spoke volumes. Young Dreams are baroque, a little anachronistic and, occasionally, wincingly ea... more info

411 Mania — Two shows... more info

Consequence of Sound — Mysterious dates pop up in Ohio and Illinois. more info