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MUSIC NEWS NET "A new DVD entitled That Lucky Old Sun from from Beach Boy, Brian Wilson will be released on January 27, 2009 from Capitol Records. The new dvd is the companion piece to Wilson's critically-acclaimed That Lucky Old Sun album, released September 2, 2008 on CD, vinyl and digitally. The DVD is to feature more than two and a half hours of material, including a full-length live performance of the album, a new feature-length documentary and additional behind-the-scenes footage from the album's recording sessions, and several of Wilson's recently filmed promotional performances and interviews. The new That Lucky Old Sun DVD...features a full-length performance of Wilson's latest album, filmed live at Capitol Studios on May 19, 2008 in 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo audio, as well as a new feature-length film, Going Home, directed and edited by George Dougherty, which documents the making of the album and Wilson's return to his original record label, Capitol Records."

Contents reportedly include:

'That Lucky Old Sun' performance (Capitol Studios, Studio A: May 19, 2008)

Filmed performance of entire album by Brian Wilson and his band (5.1 Surround / 2.0 Stereo)

-- That Lucky Old Sun
-- Morning Beat
-- Narrative: Room With A View
-- Good Kind OF Love
-- Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl
-- Narrative: Venice Beach
-- Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
-- Mexican Girl
-- Narrative: Cinco de Mayo
-- California Role / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
-- Narrative: Between Pictures
-- Oxygen To The Brain
-- Can't Wait Too Long
-- Midnight's Another Day
-- That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
-- Going Home
-- Southern California

'Going Home'
Feature-length documentary about the making of That Lucky Old Sun and
an exploration of Brian Wilson's life long personal and creative
relationship with Southern California.
Directed and edited by George Dougherty.

Bonus Materials
-- Track-by-track Capitol Studios performance commentary by Brian Wilson
and Scott Bennett
-- The making of That Lucky Old Sun: additional behind the scenes
footage from the album's recording sessions
-- Yahoo! Nissan Live Sets performance with studio audience Q&A
-- MySpace "Artist On Artist" interview: Brian Wilson & Zooey Deschanel
-- "Black Cab Sessions" performance

WILTON VILLAGER According to Mike Love, "It seems like every year another movie comes out that has a Beach Boys tune in it and that opens it up to a whole new audience. Between 'Full House' and oldies radio and soundtracks and our CD 'Sounds of Summer,' which is approaching 3 million in sales, we're doing pretty darn good for an old surf group."

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WEHO NEWS

DVD TALK "Something of a German version of VH1's Behind The Music, Pop Odyssey in 1997 put together Der Beach Boys Und Der Satan, (the German title) a programmatic version of a salt lick for you cows of '60s music (I'm one). It means if you like to ruminate on musical glories gone by, of a particularly surf-y variety, you'll giddily lap up this offering, no matter how schooled in the matter you are. Or maybe not; I've certainly heard or read plenty of what's presented in this mix of 1997 interviews and archival footage, but somehow it all seems new, fresh, or at least still thrilling to me, and hopefully if you love Brian Wilson as much as I do, you'll feel the same."

BLOGGER NEWS NETWORK "This past weekend, I drove my nineteen year old son, Mario, and his friend from Durham, NC to Glenside, PA. to see Brian Wilson in concert at the Keswick Theater. My son has had a passion for the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson for years, the kind of passion I felt at his age for an opera singer named Mario Del Monaco, after whom my son is named, incidentally."

WONDERS IN THE DARK

THE FORTY-NINE PERCENTER "Clearly, 'That Lucky Old Sun' marks a new chapter in Wilson's career. Its clear that these songs are devoted to telling the listener just how much Wilson loves California and how fondly he remembers his childhood. This is a man finally at peace with his past."

SF WEEKLY "Brian Wilson, 'Sweet Insanity.' Forget 'SMiLE.' The real curio locked away inside the lab of the Beach Boy boffin is this 1991 solo album, the culmination of Wilson's unethical business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy. From the mid-'70s to the early '90s, Wilson was under Landy's meds-induced spell. They wrote dozens of songs together, while Landy bled Wilson out of millions in therapy fees. 'Sweet Insanity,' the pair's would-be opus, was a stab at updating the Beach Boys' sound in the age of Bel Biv DeVoe. 'Smart Girls,' the proposed first single, featured a handful of classic Beach Boys songs chopped and looped around a new jack beat. The only surviving trace of the album is a promo sampler hastily sent to radio before Wilson delivered the final master tapes to his label. After Sire swiftly rejected the work, Landy was hit with a restraining order filed by Wilson's family and promptly lost his practitioner's license. It would take another decade for Wilson to see Landy as the shyster he was. Sweet Insanity or mere stupidity? Luckily, it's a question we'll never have to grapple with."

CRITICAL MASS "Two guys got in a fight. One in his 50s, the other in his 30s. The younger guy was being too loud for the older guy. They had words, the older guy pushed the younger guy’s face, an ambulance came for the younger guy because his contact rolled back in his eye."

The all-female lo-fi garage rock trio VIVIAN GIRLS are self-releasing a 7" with a cover of the Beach Boys' "Girl Don't Tell Me."

"Girl Don't Tell Me" originally appeared on the Beach Boys' "Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)" album. It was recorded April 30, 1965 and was released as a single (Capital 5561) in December of the same year. "Girl Don't Tell Me" is one of my most favorite Beach Boys tracks. Carl's lead vocals are sublime.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "Due to longtime health problems, [Brian] Wilson's voice isn't what it once was, and he read lyrics from an electronic screen near his keyboard. But his finely tuned band - including several Pennsylvania natives - was well-versed in the Beach Boys' signature sound."

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