Brian Wilson (Musician)

Reel World

Letters

Recordings

Lost albums that should remain lost

Midnight Sunshine

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

"I'm Still Kicking Ass"

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Hear This

Daniel Johnston brings DIY pop bliss to an imperfect world

Morning Benders

Boarded Doors (Self-released)

Mad Styles

One creative artist offers viewers a threefer

Kelley Stoltz

Below the Branches

Magical Mystery Allure

In search of an ephemeral, glowing blue sphere in the music of Animal Collective

Razed by Wolves

How Michigan noise machine Wolf Eyes grew to become the leader of the "New Weirdness"

Ay dios!

Boasting sharply written tunes and a fan in Morrissey, dios is converting the hordes with its indie rock

Hear This

Ay, dios: Get to Grandaddy's show early, and you just might hear God. Er, god.

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 23, 2002

Notes From the Underground

The Cave-ins' indie rock debut sounds mighty familiar -- but in a good way

Shine a Light

The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association may be ready to go aboveground

Margo Guryan

Take a Picture (Oglio)

Youth and Beauty

Innovation is alive and well in Helgi Tomasson's S.F. Ballet

Big Boys Don't Cry

Pete Miller is a rock 'n' roll legend -- or at least he should be

House Of Tudor

Welcome to Brutal Planet

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Riff Raff

Pop (Do We Not Like That?)

Little Voice

In two years, John Vanderslice and his studio, Tiny Telephone, have become unlikely focal points of the local pop-rock scene

Brian Wilson, Reconstructed

For his first solo album in a decade, the creative force behind the Beach Boys recovers both himself and his music (sort of)

Sound Ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Riff Raff

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Hear This

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Heroes,Villains,Obsessions

The upcoming release of the Beach Boys' legendary "Smile"session ends super-fan Domenic Priore's Journey to the past

What Devo can teach us about the death of the album

The upcoming release of the Beach Boys' legendary "Smile"session ends super-fan Domenic Priore's Journey to the past

Got a Spare Couple Thousand Dollars? Private Brian Wilson Performance in SF.

​Brian Wilson doesn't do too many performances these days (the last time I saw him was on his Smile tour, a great show with a lot of help from backup singers and musicians). The Beach Boy will be in San Francisco this month, though, playing a space much smaller than the Fillmore, in support of his ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Danny James and PEAR

​Bay Area natives Danny James and PEAR are childhood friends Danny James (vocals, bass) and Mike "General Luau" Generalao (guitar). (The two are between drummers at the moment). Growing up in East Oakland, James and Generalao have played in various bands over the years, most recently The Cuts, be ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Brian Wilson's 'Private' Gallery Performance

​Brian WilsonSaturday, Jan. 23, 2010San Francisco Art Exchange(Much) better than: Paying $50 to squint at Brian Wilson from far away alongside thousands of other people; many other things $1,500 could be spent on (like fixing years of unpaid S.F. parking fines, or hiring an accountant).On Saturday ... More >>

Wavves' addictive surf-punk makes it king of the beach

​Brian WilsonSaturday, Jan. 23, 2010San Francisco Art Exchange(Much) better than: Paying $50 to squint at Brian Wilson from far away alongside thousands of other people; many other things $1,500 could be spent on (like fixing years of unpaid S.F. parking fines, or hiring an accountant).On Saturday ... More >>

Magic Kids, ZineFest, Prince vs. Michael, Doin' It in the Park, and More

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" lives up to its title

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

Show Preview: Christian Fennesz

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

The Man Behind the Scenes

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

Craft Spells, Brewer of Magical Bedroom Pop, Talks Shamanism and the Evils of Suburbs

Craft Spells plays Milk Bar on November 11'th​ Between widely accessible studio programs and the Internet, the bedroom is becoming a semi-pro recording studio and distribution center. If you haven't noticed the positive effect this has had on prodigy songwriters yet, turn your ears to Craft Spell ... More >>

A B & The Sea Recorded A 'Christmas' Song with The She's

A B & The Sea​We've apparently reached the point where it's cool for indie-pop bands to record their own irony-free Christmas songs. The latest addition: a collaboration between local beach-poppers A B & the Sea and garage-boppers The She's, entitled "Christmas (Baby Come Home)." Hear and ... More >>

The Beach Boys' Original Smile to Get Official Deluxe Release

​It's nearly impossible to talk about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys without bringing up Smile at some point. The unfinished album, which helped precipitate Wilson's fall into decades of despair, was hyped as the next big thing as it was being made. But, of course, it never came out. But now ... More >>

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Wilson Phillips' Still Holding On Represents the Worst of Music and Television in 2011

​Unless you are a blogger who subjects yourself to terrible television for a living (like me), you probably didn't bother tuning in last Sunday for the premiere of Wilson Phillips: Still Holding On, the show where a once-popular female trio (two of whose members are the offspring of famous mu ... More >>