Uncanny

TMZ This link leads to a recent, but not very flattering, picture of Brian Wilson in the Beverly Glen shopping complex.

Brian Wilson w/ Gene Estes "Love to Say Dada" session, May 1967. From the book Pop Surf Culture: Music Design Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Era

AMAZON LISTING
SANTA MONICA PRESS

Jan Berry & Fan ca. 1979

YOU TUBE

NPR

STRUGGLE INC

DALLAS OBSERVER

IDOLATOR "My favorite solo work of Johnston's is his version of the Chantays' surf-rock hit 'Pipeline,' which was recently unearthed by a thrifting friend of mine."

THE DESERT SUN

NY TIMES "13) Goodnight, Irene, Brian Wilson. What’s the last song in the world you can imagine making a great up-tempo, bouncy Beach-Boyish romp? I’ll be impressed if you could find a better candidate than this Ledbelly classic, and yet … you can find it on the Folkways tribute record, 'A Vision Shared.'"

Flower power: Kalinich and his then-wife Renee Ciral.

SEATTLE WEEKLY

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BUTTLE'S WORLD Members of the legendary Wrecking Crew get together for one more LA jam session. Al Jardine even stops by for a cameo.

10/09/08 Edit: Damn, I need to get a new pair of glasses. Please see comments for correct location information.

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

GQ "Pet Sounds, Graceland, and baroque popsters like Van Dyke Parks are the touch-points—creating a warm (but tentative) record for timorous times. The Beach Boys looked upwards in their uncertainty—most famously, God only knew what they'd do without you—but for Department of Eagles, the gaze is pointed firmly down to their shoes."

UC PATRIOT The headline of this article misspells Brian as Bryan.

10/07/08 edit: Apparently this was not the fault of the author, who was kind enough to leave a comment. The mistake has been corrected.

NY TIMES "[Daniel] Rossen and [Fred] Nicolaus [of the band Department of Eagles] are enthusiastic fans of Brian Wilson’s bootlegged late-1960s recordings for the album 'Smile' and of songwriters steeped in Hollywood pop lore like Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson."

CONTROL INDUSTRY

I've noticed a spate of recent articles about the growing interest in vinyl records amongst music buyers. The number of these articles suggests either that some journalists are lazy and just copy what their colleagues have already done or there's actually a new trend. Decide for yourself. Here's links to some of these articles:

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
GUARDIAN
WALL STREET JOURNAL 1
WALL STREET JOURNAL 2
THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS 1
THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS 2
STAR TELEGRAM
NORWICH BULLETIN
METRO NEWS
UNIVERSITY CHRONICLE
SIGN ON SAN DIEGO
THE REPORTER

THE FANZINE An interesting article by top-notch music writer Andy Beta.

"Over thirty years on, POB has aged rather well. Though at times it could sound like a Glenn Fry solo album (and might make us re-appraise such a beast) with its mix of machismo and gruff-earnestness, its AOR (album/adult-oriented rock) is just skewed enough so as to sound like a Wilco album, too. Drummer Wilson dabbles in almost everything: Steinway grand, Rhodes, Hohner clavinet, Moog, Hammond. Again, contradictory notions course through it."