Stereogum — Supposedly, Josh Silbernagel and Sean Murray of North Dakota duo Glower wrote their forthcoming debut The Circle Binds in an attempt to answer the question “What would it sound like if Billy Corgan and Brian Wilson started a hardcore band?” I’m... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Brian Wilson opens his new album No Pier Pressure with a quietly profound lyric: “Life goes on and on, like your favorite song.” Wilson has written many people’s favorite songs over the last five decades – the rollicking surf rock of “Littl... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Wouldn't it be nice, Beach Boys fans have thought for years, if they could wake up to find music legend Brian Wilson on the big screen? And to do so while he tangles with ghosts and a deliciously malevolent doctor — God only knows what we'd be with... more info

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Stereogum — We already saw one trailer for the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, and it showed us that Paul Dano is a good choice for young Wilson while John Cusack is a questionable choice for old Wilson. Now a new trailer has arrived, giving us glances of Eliz... more info

Stereogum — Brian Wilson may have never heard of punk — though he sure did inspire a lot of them — but he has heard of She & Him, the duo who served as one of Wilson’s many collaborators on his latest solo album, No Pier Pressure. The video shows off Zooey... more info

Stereogum — It was the winter of 1978/’79 in Los Angeles — that is to say, not much of a winter at all. The Last were holed up in a studio with John Harrison, Hawkwind’s founding bassist. The band had just made the jump from self-financing to Bomp! Records... more info

Stereogum — While Donald Fagen is recapping his Coachella tour experiences, Brian Wilson is full steam ahead doing interviews for his brand new album No Pier Pressure that’s out this week. (This album title is the best pun of 2015 so far). And while Fagan admi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher North Dakota's Glower is the duo of Josh Silbernagel (Hands) and Sean Murray (The Diversion Scene), who apparently founded Glower with the goal of making music that sounded like Billy Corgan and Brian Wilson starting a hardcore... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo by Neil Krug Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman also fronts the band Mini Mansions, who put out their sophomore album, The Great Pretenders, last month on T Bone Burnett's Electromagnetic Recordings/Capitol Records (Burnett's first ... more info