The Beach Boys – “Second Wing”
By DJ M on May 9th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
Athletic & Convocation Center, University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana, April 20, 1974
DISC 1
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Darlin’
Little Deuce Coup
The Trader
Long Promised Road
Surfer Girl
Funky Pretty
California Saga
Marcella
God Only Knows
DISC 2
We Got Love
Don’t Talk, Put Your Head On My Shoulder
Do It Again
Don’t Worry Baby
Sloop John B
Help Me Rhonda
Surfin’ USA
California Girls
Barbara Ann
I Get Around
Fun, Fun, Fun
Mark and his baby
By DJ M on May 9th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
Mark Linett and his Genex GX9048 multiformat 48-track recorder, used to record the SMiLE concerts.
Brian will have fun, fun, fun until melinda takes his t-bird away
By DJ M on May 9th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
"The Drift" gets pitchfork's best new music treatment
By DJ M on May 9th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
drifting with scott walker
By DJ M on May 8th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
N.B.-- According to a publicist at Scott Walker's current label, 4AD, "Due to the complicated printing process involved with the detailed nature of the packaging, the release date has been slightly delayed. Previously May 9th - it will now be released on May 23rd. HOWEVER - itunes will still carry the album on May 9th."
THE GUARDIAN 1 “The Drift is like little else in music. The melodic austerity, somewhere between plainsong and operatic recitative, may shock fans of Walker's lush 1960s records but, gloriously, The Drift is a record that demands a lot of work and repays tenfold.”
THE GUARDIAN 2 “If anything, the tracks on The Drift seem a step further away from the mainstream into ever more dense and impenetrable realms. There are moments that make Tilt sound like the Kaiser Chiefs. The Drift features bursts of screaming noise and unbearably tense silences, and ruminations on 9/11, the death of Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci and the current obsession with celebrity, of which Walker takes an unsurprisingly dim view…”
MUSIC OMH "This material shreds any conventional notion of the song. This is rock music as high art - there are no verse-chorus-verse structures here. There is nothing so simple or linear, no law, no rules, just expression in its purest form. Musical reference points are difficult to discover or disclose. Penderecki arranged by Iain Sinclair. Morton Feldman's tonal clusters sprinkled with TS Elliot's dark verse. An audio version of Picasso's Bombing of Guernica. Francis Bacon's searing paintings turned into a classical score. To trace The Drift's bloody pathways, unpick its dense impressionistic lyrics, requires secret knowledge, a broken compass and total immersion into its world."
THE INDEPENDENT "No less dense than its predecessor, The Drift tips the scales as the most weighty album to be issued by a major artist this year, possibly this decade. That's 'major' as in important, not mainstream."
R&B star Ne-Yo can't figure out brian wilson
By DJ M on May 8th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys, Electronic Music
SOUND GENERATOR What about someone like Brian Wilson, does that inspire you, with the harmony thing?
Oh yeah, I can't remember the name of the song, but they're doing this harmony, and to this day I can't figure out every note that's in it!
Dance music gets more ctitical atention
By DJ M on May 8th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys, Electronic Music
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS “The inveterate rock bias in the music papers, magazines and academia has left much dancefloor history still undocumented. The trad agenda set by commentators in the Sixties, heavy with value judgments - glorifying the work of the Velvet Underground over Motown releases, the production skills of Brian Wilson over those of Norman Whitfield, and the social significance and songwriting talent of John Lennon rather than James Brown - persists.”
Strip Hop
By DJ M on May 8th, 2006
In Electronic Music
YAHOO NEWS "'Strip clubs have become the main breaking place for records, especially in the South,' says Jermaine Dupri, president of urban music for Virgin Records."
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