Guardian Music — Meet Brooklyn's freshest, sassiest girl-fronted group. Our new favourite band. Till next week, anyway …Hometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Samantha Urbani (vocals), Lesley Hann (bass, percussion, backing vocals), Nikki Shapiro (guitar, keyboards, percus... more info

Guardian Music — (Decca)More than the sum of their parts? That's the Jayhawks. Separately, the voices of Mark Olson and Gary Louris tend to be thin; together, their harmonies are as richly American, in their way, as the Beach Boys. Writing together melds Olson's coun... more info

Guardian Music — Oxford band Fixers write so many songs they used to give them away for free. Now they're having to slow down a bitFixers are preoccupied by the passage of time: by their inability to keep pace with it, by the way their current situation – with an a... more info

Popdose — In today's installment, Bob meets his hero Brian Wilson and finally realizes that he was the guy who wrote all those great Beach Boys songs more info

NME — 'The Smile Sessions' sees the remaining band members returning to the abandoned album more info

Guardian Music — Surviving band members collaborate to issue abandoned Smile Sessions album 44 years after original studio recordingsThe Beach Boys have announced release details for their lost masterpiece, Smile. After 44 years as a secret passed between fans, three... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Beach Boys' lost 'SMiLe' album will be released 45 years later. Beach Boys masterpiece was shelved because of internal dissension over Brian Wilson's musical direction. more info

ContactMusic — Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson has re-made several classic Disney songs, including The Jungle Book's Bare Necessities, for an upcoming album. The singer has added a 'Beach Boys sound' to the popular tracks on new record In the Key of Disney. Other so... more info

Guardian Music — The Beach Boys legend will reimagine music from Snow White, Jungle Book and Toy Story on new album, In the Key of DisneyBrian Wilson has announced an album interpreting songs from the films of Walt Disney. For In the Key of Disney, tracks about seduc... more info

USA Today Music — Music from beloved Disney films will get the Beach Boys treatment on a new album. more info