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Listen to The Flaming Lips cover The Beach Boys’ classic “God Only Knows”.

The Beach Boys are back! First new music by the entire band in more than 15 years!

Max And The Moon confidently mix Beach Boys summer charm with the vocal harmonies of Fleet Foxes, all supported by a confident and engaging backline. Where they’re not yet delivering at the highest standards, there’s every indication that their future material will fill in the gaps. Watch this space.

White Birds deftly sway from roots-based, whispering minimalism all the way to lush, orchestral heights on this profoundly interesting album. There’s not a single skippable track on “When Women Played Drums”.

Check out The Beach Boys’s 50th Anniversary Edition video for “Do It Again”.

You will find traces of any good pop you’ve ever loved with Warm Weather, especially those that come littered with vocal harmonies

The first part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Fanfarlo, Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, Janelle Monaé, The Killers, Marques Toliver, The Miracals, Memoryhouse, MGMT, Michael Kiwanuka, Miike Snow, MIKA and the morning benders!

We all know the story by now. The follow up to The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”, “SMiLE” was to be Brian Wilson’s masterwork, a guaranteed psych-pop classic that would demonstrate the breadth of sound that could be achieved in a recording studio, throwing down the gauntlet to all other rock and pop artists. That is, [...]

A little while back a good friend of mine returned from a trip to St. Louis with a banging gift: a clutch of records from Vintage Vinyl. Among the gems that she picked out was this slightly beat up copy of a record by the Dave Brubeck Quartet that I never even knew existed, called [...]

Watch the new video for The Beach Boys‘s song “Heroes And Villains” below, taken from the album “The Smile Sessions”.

At some point I was arm-twisted into watching “Clueless”. I deny all allegations that I secretly quite enjoyed it. It did have two saving graces: first, Donald Faison; second, a surprisingly good soundtrack. One track featured on it was “My Forgotten Favorite” by Velocity Girl. The point of this story, insofar as any of my [...]

Black Lips have flirted with the big time in the past. “Bad Kids“, a single off their 2007 album “Good Bad Evil”, brought them some exposure in 2009 when it featured on the soundtrack to “(500) Days Of Summer”, but any chance that this brief encounter with a wider public could lead to something more [...]

I make no secret of loving early ’90s music, so I’m being totally spoiled by this shoegaze revival that seems to be under way at the moment. I mean, obviously I’m one of the people who would say that it never went away, but for once the rest of the world seems to be agreeing [...]

There are some classic artists that you can listen to time and again and never grow tired of hearing them. I’d rank crooners like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and Al Martino (to name but a few) in this category. These are the voices that transport you back in time to the golden age [...]

Oasis, AC/DC, Kings of Leon, The Black Crowes, The Beach Boys, The Stooges…  The list of great bands with brothers in is quite a lengthy one but there’s always room for one more so ladies and gentlemen please welcome Kudos Fiasco to the fray. The brothers in this band are Benny and Dan Juengling and [...]

Spring has allegedly sprung here in the UK but with the snows in Scotland and rain everywhere else it’s a little hard to believe it. What we need is some music to give us a little bit of happiness and I think I’ve found the cure with Lonesome Ghost. Coming from Dallas, Texas (where the [...]