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July 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

We'll be havin' fun all summer long... For nearly sixty years, the sun-drenched harmonies of The Beach Boys have provided the soundtrack for summer - from those welcome first days and first rays through the season's bittersweet final moments as autumn's chill approaches.  They're the rare band whose compilations, beginning with 1974's chart-topping Endless Summer, have become nearly as key to their legacy as the core studio albums.  2003's Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

April 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Beach Boys Sounds of Summer 2022

On October 1, 1962, The Beach Boys released their album debut Surfin' Safari on Capitol Records, beginning an extraordinary musical odyssey that continues to this day.  Since then, brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson; cousin Mike Love; and friend Al Jardine - along with fellow travelers including Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar, and dozens of key collaborators including Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, Van Dyke Parks, Billy Hinsche,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, The Beach Boys

January 28, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Keeping the Light On

For over fifty years, Gerry Beckley has performed, written, and recorded with the group he co-founded with Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek, America.  But with his 1995 album Van Go Gan, Beckley began a parallel solo career that also continues to this very day.  On the heels of his sublime 2019 release Five Mile Road, the singer-songwriter is looking back with a new solo retrospective.  Keeping the Light On: The Best of Gerry Beckley will arrive in 2-CD and 2-LP formats via the Blue Élan label on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America, Carl Wilson, Gerry Beckley, Robert Lamm

October 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982's Tug of War, featuring "Ebony and Ivory" and "Here Today."  The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Carl Wilson, Carole King, Celtic Thunder, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Earth Wind and Fire, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Sarah McLachlan

September 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

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Summer may now be over, but a number of Beach Boys-related releases aim to keep the summer alive.  Our very own Second Disc Records label teamed with Real Gone Music in September for a newly remastered and expanded reissue of Ricci Martin's Beached, the all-star album recorded by Dean Martin's son Ricci with co-producers Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche.  Now, Iconoclassic Records has announced next week's first-ever U.S. CD reissue of Carl's 1981 eponymous solo debut.  And if that's not enough,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Pop Tags: Carl Wilson, The Beach Boys

September 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Ricci Martin Beached

"I was living up the street from Carl Wilson and his wife Annie," Ricci Martin told me in July of this year. "I was over his house, playing his piano. And Carl said, 'God, I really like that! Did you write that?' And I said, 'Yeah, I wrote that!' And he said, 'How would you like to record that?' And I said, 'Of course, absolutely!'"  The song Ricci was playing was "Stop, Look Around," a shimmering slice of Southern California pop that would open his 1977 Epic Records album Beached.  Carl Wilson

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Carl Wilson, Chicago, Dennis Wilson, Ricci Martin, The Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ricci Martin Beached

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard?  Well, they actually did!  And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Billy Hinsche, Carl Wilson, Chicago, Dennis Wilson, Ricci Martin, The Beach Boys

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