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• Jazz Fest set to begin Friday in New Orleans

  Sunday and May 3-6. This year's lineup includes mostly Louisiana acts accented with national headliners such as Bon Iver, the Beach Boys, the Eagles , Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cee Lo Green , Ne-Yo , Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett .Though Jazz   Read more »

• Beach Boys, Whoopi to play Westchester County Center

  shows and sporting events, the Westchester County Center is set to stage performances by big-name attractions including the Beach Boys, Boston, and Whoopi Goldberg this year, thanks in part to a new promoter and recent sound-related modifications to the facility   Read more »

• Beach Boys heading to Jones Beach

  Arts Center on June 27. Tickets go on sale Monday through Live Nation.The current tour, which starts in April, is the first Beach Boys tout to include Brian Wilson , Mike Love , Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston in more than two decades. The band is also working   Read more »

Around the web

• Observing the Beach Boys, California and life

  of innocence, our final pleas for good vibrations. Of course, it was all a conceit and it was all too much to bear—for the Beach Boys, for California and most of all for Brian Wilson. When the sun went down, there was still an alcoholic mother, an abusive 12:28 AM from LA Observed Read more »

• Sasquatch! Music Festival: Day 3

  slowly built energy to get the crowd warmed up. Halfway through their set, they played a noisy, experimental cover of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows”. The crowd was appropriately responsive, singing along with plenty of smiles and bobbing along to   from The KEXP Blog Read more »

• Best Coast is California dreamy

  about summer and love.The band makes a strong case for being their home states finest musical ambassadors since the Beach Boys. Opening number The Only Place, which also opens and titles their recently released sophomore album, set the stage. Weve got the   from KansasCity.com Read more »

• 2012's song of the summer contenders: A slideshow

  "song of the summer" is an informal title that's been used since 1965, when the Beach Boys had a nation of sunbathers all singing along to "California Girls." Last year, by general consensus, LMFAO's ubiquitous "Party Rock Anthem" became the inescapable earworm   from The Week Read more »

• Diana Nollen wrote a new blog post: REVEIW: Orchestra Iowa hits a home run at ballpark

  Iowa teams up with Jeans ’n’ Classics from Canada to perform Beach Boys music in a triple header that included a Kernels baseball game and fireworks at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 26, 2012. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette-KCRG) CEDAR   from The Gazette  Read more »