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  Beach Boys' Mike Love Explains Brian Wilson's 'Firing,' Confuses Everyone

  October 8, 2012 – It's usually not a good idea to take sides in another family's dispute. Exhibit A: The latest twist in the Beach Boys' long-running saga of sweetly harmonious inter-personal dysfunction. …
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  Beach Boy Fires All Other Beach Boys

  September 26, 2012 – Mike Love apparently surprised his fellow Beach Boys co-founders Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, plus guitarist David Marks, when he announced on Sunday that all three were fired from the band. After the Boys wrap two London stops on their current 50th anniversary tour, Love will carry on with his own lineup. …
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  Mitt Romney: 'The Killers Are One Group I Enjoy'

  August 24, 2012 – Few presidential candidates have had their musical taste and knowledge scrutinized by as many artists as this year's Republican offerings Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Sure, Bruce Springsteen wasn't especially pleased with Reagan's use of "Born in the U.S.A." in '84 and Tom Petty insisted George W. Bush back down from using "I Won't Back Down". …
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  Scott McKenzie, 'Kokomo' Cowriter and Summer of Love Star, Dead at 73

  August 20, 2012 – Singer-songwriter Scott McKenzie, who performed the hippie anthem "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" in 1967's Summer of Love, has died. …
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  Live Sue Ex-Frontman for Making Fans Think He's Still in the Band

  July 19, 2012 – Based on recent events, it seems that if you were a successful band in the 1990s, you have two options in 2012: reunite and make a comeback record, or fight each other relentlessly for the use of whatever's left of your legacy. Apparently Live has decided on both. …
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  Who Charted? Neil Young and Beach Boys' Collective Nostalgia Can't Beat Adele

  June 13, 2012 – First! As is the natural order of things, Adele is back at the top of Billboard 200 for the 24th week overall, after her NBC special "Adele Live in London" aired last Sunday and boosted sales of 21 by 30 percent. The album sold 72,000 copies, presumably all to one super-fan because there can't possibly be anyone in the country who hasn't bought this record yet. …
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  Listen to the New Beach Boys Song Which We Kind of Love

  April 25, 2012 – Today the reunited Beach Boys released their first music with Brian Wilson on vocals since, as best as we can figure, 1989's "In My Car," a song so forgettable that we can't even find a YouTube to link to. The song is called "That's Why God Made the Radio" and there's no reason for it to exist and there's certainly no reason for it to be any good. There wasn't even really a reason for us to listen to it but we did. …
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  The 2012 Grammys' Highs and Lows: Didn't We Almost Have It All

  February 13, 2012 –  …
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  The Beach Boys Will Reunite at the Grammys, Tragically, With Foster the People and Maroon 5

  February 8, 2012 – The good news: The recently reunited surviving members of the Beach Boys just announced that they will perform for the first time in nearly 20 years at the Grammys on Sunday. …
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  Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Covers the Beach Boys

  January 4, 2011 – The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," from their groundbreaking 1966 album Pet Sounds, is one of the most timeless songs in popular music. Recently, Weezer singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo recorded a solo cover of the ballad. …
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