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As Brian Wilson receded into the background, the rest of The Beach Boys sustained the band's powerful legacy
This is the part 2 conclusion of my review of The Beach Boys 2024 movie on Disney+.
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Paul Mackie
Want the Ken Burns treatment for The Beach Boys? Check out the excellent 2024 doc
This is part 1 of my review of The Beach Boys 2024 movie on Disney+.
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Loving Brian Wilson ever since the kid turntable in my room
When I was a kid, I listened to a lot of albums in my room.
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Paul Mackie
Great Magazine Reads: Christopher Owens makes music worth embracing, for many reasons
Not many people would rank Christopher Owens as the best pop singer and songwriter of the past 15 years.
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May Pop Culture RIPs: There goes a regular with the passing of Norm from Cheers
Yes, sure I loved watching Norm sit at the bar with all his lighthearted but self-deprecating jokes, but I like even more that George Wendt, the actor…
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Paul Mackie
Monthly Music Reviews: The sad story of Nell Smith accompanies my album of the month for May
Here’s what I was listening to this month.
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Perry Farrell gets the ball rolling in an entertaining new book on Lollapalooza
After sitting through Paramount+’s somewhat unenlightening recent three-part documentary on the now-mythic Lollapalooza music festival’s history, I…
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Tom Petty's effortlessly cool drive was at the height of its display in 1982
Billed as “a long-lost documentary” of legendary journalist and filmmaker Cameron Crowe, Tom Petty: Heartbreaks Beach Party from 2024 is on Paramount…
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Paul Mackie
All new column: Monthly music reviews, starting with an April teaser
After years of using allmusic.com as what I think is the best music resource online, I finally subscribed.
April Pop Culture RIPs, including an almost more real Jim Morrison than the real Jim Morrison
Val Kilmer leads the list of influentual figures we lost this past month.
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An octopus, the Outer Banks, and Hall & Oates highlight my recent pop-culture intake
I’ve gobbled up plenty of TV and movie pop culture over the past couple of months and, well, not all of it gets a full article dissection here at the…
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Great Magazine Reads: Chris Bell's extremely sad rock n' roll story
Although Big Star is one of my very favorite bands, I’ve honestly always had trouble getting into co-leader Chris Bell’s heralded solo album I Am the…
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