The Beach Boys

...Farrelly's scene design paired with department chair Marty Sachs's sound design transformed Lupin into an actual beach house. With Beach Boys' playing before the show, you'll want to grab your sunscreen and head outside for some sun. Laura...

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...angry and sweet rumination on the burdens of simply being human. One permeating with an amazing pop underscore ranging from the Beach Boys to Bryan Ferry to M. Ward's heartbreaking "Poison Cup." "I get to play a goofy, endearing...

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This world has our pop music, too - "Lollipop," "Unchained Melody," "Mr. Sandman" - and the movie's cultural piracy includes Bob Dylan and Beach Boys allusions, even a "Singin' in the Rain" sequence. Little of this clutter will register...

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...rock with a medieval feel. The Blakes show up and sound British, scrappy, poppy. Pearly Gate Music's "Big Escape" takes cues from The Beach Boys circa "Wild Honey" (the LSD years), with Zach Tillman (brother of Fleet Foxes drummer J....

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...music. The fantastic oddity is not the only track that sounds as if unearthed from a time capsule. "Whole Lotta Losin'" carries a strong Beach Boys vibe thanks to a gorgeous melodic hook and shaggy backdrop and the twangy "Man Named Truth"...

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...while Bill Kelliher remains content to let his guitar sing for him.) With passages that are just as likely to evoke Zappa and the Beach Boys as Sabbath and Slayer, "Skye" is one big zag. It's the kind of album you want to listen to...

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...title that David X. Levine gives to his exhibit at Steven Zevitas Gallery. Wilson, whose sunny tunes and falsetto harmonies led to the Beach Boys' dazzling success in the 1960s, has also famously struggled with mental health issues and...

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...production, "In the Next Room or the vibrator play." Set in the late 1880s, the dawn of the electric age -- when "good vibrations" wasn't a Beach Boys song, but an Rx for hysteria -- Sarah Ruhl's play practically sits up and demands historic...

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...including Where the Wild Things Are. Upcoming movie soundtracks include Pirate Radio with songs from the 1960s (The Who, The Kinks, The Beach Boys) and 2012, the disaster epic, with a song from American Idol winner, Adam Lambert. And...

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...on Florida State defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews about to bow out with maybe his worst unit ever: "Almost as sad as when the Beach Boys went out with 'Kokomo.' " • Headline on Ron Kantowski's blog at LasVegasSun.com: "I went to a...

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