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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Michael Cohen: Trump’s Fixer…or His Handler
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Tag Archives: Beach Boys

Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson
Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading

Matters of Faint Import, Vol. III: Five Biggest Pet Peeves in Music
Owen King and his band of merry music pranksters reveal their musical red lines. Continue reading

Caroline, No
In Sunday Magazine, Caroline Leavitt recalls the time she got picked up hitchhiking — by the Beach Boys. Continue reading
Posted in Sunday Magazine
Tagged Almost Famous, Beach Boys, broken hearts, college, Mike Love, pet sounds
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The Ten Bands I Will be Pleasured With in Heaven
Last week, Sean Beaudoin was in musical hell. This week, it’s the Pearly Gates. Which bands does he like? Hint: there’s no “Tears in Heaven” in heaven. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Counting Crows, Creed, Elysian Fields, Eric Clapton, Oasis, Sting, Weezer
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