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

Popdose — To coincide with the long-awaited release of the Beach Boys SMiLE Sessions, the band has posted a new series of videos related to the legendary album more info

Guardian Music — Joe Goddard and Raphael Rundell take us back to the 90s – and its not the likes of Oasis they evoke, but the era's house musicHometown: London.The lineup: Joe Goddard and Raphael Rundell.The background: The 2 Bears comprise one fifth of Hot Chip, i... more info

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

Nialler9 — As well as Florence + The Machine, Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Tom Waits, Laura Veirs, Kuedo, Buraka Som Sistema, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kuedo, Phantogram, Beach Boys, Cass McCombs, Little Xs For Eyes, Wild Flag. more info

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

The Late Greats — Act fast people. Act fast Beach Boys fans. Only 100 of these available. (The SMiLE Sessions is also available as a digital release.) This is one of the most famous “unreleased” albums ever. This “album” may be pop music’s greatest … Conti... more info

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

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

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