Subject: The Beach Boys

• Last Night: Mortified at the Make-Out Room

  April 26, 2008

• SF Weekly Music Awards Nominee: The Morning Benders

  October 13, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Oh Captain, My Captain

  It's impossible to listen to the newest single from Portland, Ore. band Oh Captain, My Captain and not think of the Beach Boys. From the grand orchestration to the groovy harmonies, these dudes are sonic spittin' images of the Brothers Wilson & Co. At least that's the case with "Feet of Lead, Wings of Tin,"  a single the band released about a month ago. On the group's other MySpace offerings, their influences spread a bit, with frontman Jesse Bettis sounding very Chris Martin-ish in pla

  January 30, 2009

• Making Wavves

  April 8, 2009

• Animal Collective

  Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)

  January 14, 2009

• Lost albums that should remain lost

  November 26, 2008

• Beachwood Boys

  August 20, 2008

• The Morning Benders: love gone wrong in three minutes or less

  April 30, 2008

• All in the Family: Drinking After Hours at Laiola

  February 13, 2008

• Richie Rich

  April 8, 2009

• Young Love

  Those ubiquitous Swedes PB&J

  May 9, 2007

• Morning Benders

  Boarded Doors (Self-released)

  March 14, 2007

• Freaks, noiseniks, and beach bums

  December 20, 2006

• Dance of the Penguin

  That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

  November 15, 2006

• Bang your head on the Mall

  November 15, 2006

• Oh, Pioneers

  Behold - the forgotten history of the Beau Brummels, the true originators of the San Francisco sound of the '60s

  March 1, 2006

• Record Dork

  Delving deeper than you ever wanted to go. This week: cult leaders and their tunes, starring G.I. Gurdjieff.

  December 7, 2005

• Various Artists

  Mystic Males

  September 7, 2005

• A Fanclub's Notes

  Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

  August 3, 2005

• Elliott Smith

  From a Basement on the Hill

  October 20, 2004

• The Free Design

  You Could Be Born Again|Stars/Bubbles/Time/Love

  September 1, 2004

• Ay dios!

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

  June 23, 2004

• Architecture in Helsinki

  Fingers Crossed

  June 16, 2004

• Best Pie Resource

  Mel's Drive-In

  May 19, 2004

• Hear This

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

  March 3, 2004

• The Clientele

  The Violet Hour

  September 17, 2003

• Hear This

  Good looks, good hooks, and big Afros: L.A.'s the 88 comes to town

  August 13, 2003

• Tipsy

  Remix Party! (Asphodel)

  October 23, 2002

• The Apples in Stereo

  Velocity of Sound (SpinART)

  October 2, 2002

• Radar Bros.

  And the Surrounding Mountains (Merge)

  July 31, 2002

• The Langley Schools Music Project

  Innocence & Despair (Bar/None)

  December 26, 2001

• The New Tweedy Brothers

  The New Tweedy Bros! (Ridon/Shadoks)

  August 22, 2001

• Shine a Light

  The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association may be ready to go aboveground

  June 27, 2001

• Night Crawler

  The Art of Surfing

  May 17, 2000

• House Of Tudor

  Beausoleil, The Dwarves, Bobby Conn

  April 5, 2000

• House Of Tudor

  "Man's Ruin Showcase," Beachwood Sparks, Vue, Cave Catt Sammy, Out of the Gate: Heyday Records Bay Area Sampler

  February 16, 2000

• Riff Raff

  From the "Can We Please Get the Millennium Over With Now?" Desk and Happy [Expletive Deleted] Holidays

  December 22, 1999

• Hip Pocket

  In Austin, Texas, it's a neck-and-neck race between art and commerce at South by Southwest

  March 31, 1999

• Reviews

  November 25, 1998

• House of Tudor

  November 18, 1998

• 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)

  July 15, 1998

• Riff Raff

  February 18, 1998

• Hear This

  January 29, 1997

• Recordings

  November 29, 1995

• Recordings

  May 17, 1995

• Heroes,Villains,Obsessions

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

  March 22, 1995

• Messrs. Gorgeous

  July 1, 2009

• Pirate Radio gets a tame U.S. release, but we still love rock 'n' roll

  November 11, 2009

• This Is the Saddest Pop Ever

  November 11, 2009

• What To Do? Thursday's Pick: The Drums

  ​The Drums @ PopsceneThe idea of mournful lyrics buoyed by joyous music is an old one, going back in time to when Oog beat frantically on a rock while yelling about his pet mastodon running away. Folks tend to point to the Beach Boys as the modern masters of this style, but that outlook neglects such earlier iconic acts as Dion and Del Shannon. Unlike the Drums' '60s-obsessed peers, the Brooklyn foursome takes inspiration from these and other '50s artists, choosing falsetto backing vocals, gid

  November 12, 2009