Subject: Brian Wilson (Musician)

• WAR's Suspect Originality -- and Seven Other Bands Like It...

  July 18, 2008

• Ear Burns: Our critics spew some haterade about 2008's bummer songs, albums and events

  December 17, 2008

• Film's Rolling: The St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates its seventeenth year

  November 12, 2008

• Hock the Line

  Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

  December 19, 2007

• Rockin' Around the Turntable

  A cribsheet for the year's holiday-themed releases

  December 21, 2005

• The Back of Love

  January 31, 2007

• Week of February 23, 2006

  “I remember when white girls used to cry at the mention of having a fat (phat) ass.”

  February 22, 2006

• Hype Goggles

  What will the beloved bands of '05 look like when the buzz wears off?

  June 1, 2005

• Hot Time, Music in the City

  A feast of sweet summer sounds awaits you

  May 25, 2005

• Of Montreal

  Monday, May 2; Creepy Crawl (612 North Tucker Boulevard)

  April 27, 2005

• Keep It Real

  We pitch a hard-rockin' reality show, talk Jesus with an ex-Card and have a little tiff about Brian Wilson

  October 13, 2004

• Taking Office

  Bingenheimer and Hickenlooper discuss their rockin' doc, Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  April 14, 2004

• Dressy Bessy

  June 12, 2002

• Paperback Writers

  January 2, 2002

• Paul McCartney

  November 28, 2001

• Brian Wilson with Paul Simon

  June 27, 2001

• Hall Pass

  March 28, 2001

• Born to Die

  December 20, 2000

• A Fan's Notes

  September 13, 2000

• The Beach Boys

  May 6, 2009

• Road Trip: Brian Wilson in Springfield, Illinois, Thursday, October 22

  All credit goes to Jaime for tipping me off to this show: Beach Boy Brian Wilson is kicking off his U.S. tour tomorrow night at the Sangamon Auditorium in Springfield, Illinois. Tickets are still available, believe it or not. Although Wilson just signed to DIsney Records and plans to record two solo albums (one of Gershwin covers, one of Disney classics), this show is going to feature Beach Boys and solo hits. Power-pop fans take note, too: Wilson's backing band features members of beloved cult

  October 21, 2009

• The Ten Worst Christmas Songs. Ever.

  Wikimedia Commons​Before we get to the list, I want to make clear that this is not a Christmas-bashing article, but simply a piece listing ten Christmas songs that are so awful they should never be played again for any reason. I love Christmas, I love the season and I love the spirit -- and there is a lot of Christmas music I truly love and I listen to it nearly nonstop in the month leading up to Christmas. Put in Christmas albums by Nat King Cole, Stevie Wonder or even the Peanuts gang, a

  December 15, 2009