Tag: The Beach Boys

Chuck Berry, a man who is wildly considered to be the pioneer of Rock Music, has died aged 90. Police in Missouri announced on their twitter and Facebook that Berry had been found unresponsive at his home on Saturday afternoon. They reported that they had tried and failed to revive the musician. Tributes have come pouring in for the Guitarist with many giving him his rightful dues as the master mind behind the creation of Rock Music. The New York Times described him as “Mr. Berry was its [Rock N’ Roll] master theorist and conceptual genius, the songwriter who understood what the kids wanted before they knew themselves.”

Future Islands will be sampling the Irish summer this year! The Baltimore trio have already been confirmed to play Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens in July and have now been announced for dates in Galway, Limerick & Cork.

Beach boy fans are in for a treat. Brian Wilson is set to return to Ireland this summer with his 50th Anniversary Pet Sounds Tour. The Beach boys frontman will perform the iconic album in its exact running order - followed by a set of the best of Brian Wilson and Beach Boys material, during which he'll be joined by Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. Watch the 74 year old perform “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” during a Pet Sounds 50th Anniversay concert in Grand Prairie, Texas here.

Bruce Springsteen has read an excerpt from his up-coming autobiography, in which he describes writing songs in the sixties and seventies,...

Weezer and Trent Reznor both recently paid tribute to NASA. They recently honoured NASA's Juno probe mission to Jupiter by recording songs...

Last night during Coldplays' headline set at Glastonbury, the band paid a very touching tribute to the young band Viola Beach,...

Brian Wilson has recently revealed details of his new memoir which is set to release later this year. The memoir is...

The Beach Boys' seminal album Pet Sounds is being reissued in a deluxe package to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The album was...

Brian Wilson the brains behind The Beach Boys has announced that he will be going on tour soon. The tour is...

It was recently announced that Radiohead will be one of the headliners for the upcoming Primavera Festival. LCD Soundsystem were also...