Pet Sounds Project: Associate Editor Casey Epstein-Gross has never had much of an opinion on the Beach Boys, so, for Pet Sounds week, we made her listen to the whole album front-to-back for the first time and extensively document her experience.
A Bushwick pop-up seemed like an inevitable destination of underscores’ great moving truck tour, and the musician played remixes and mash-ups to a sea of cellphones outside 3 Dollar Bill.
Pet Sounds Project: The beginning of Pet Sounds’ second side is trying to be perfect, just as it’s almost desperate to be anything but. It is a lush and grand announcement of Brian Wilson’s need to feel anything at all, to feel real and human and connected to a world he surely felt increasingly at odds with.
The Vermont singer-songwriter performed two songs from his new album The Great Divide during this weekend’s Matt Damon-hosted episode.
Pet Sounds Project: The side one instrumental lived a couple of lives before settling into what Brian Wilson called “the finest piece of art I’ve ever made.”
