the beach boys Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s Bob Knetzger

music Listen to the Beach Boys sing T-Pain Devin Nealy

mashup The Beachstie Boys, a musical mashup of The Beach Boys and the Beastie Boys Rusty Blazenhoff

social distancing Let the great Brian Wilson make all of this feel better for a moment Gareth Branwyn

Things I miss When music videos were bafflingly absurd Jason Weisberger

satire What if there was more than one song about giving actor Dave Coulier oral sex? Thom Dunn

music See where musicians are located in the Music Galaxy based on similar listeners Popkin

tabloids Ghislaine snitches on Trump in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

rick astley Smash Mouth announces new lead singer with a Rickroll Thom Dunn

Still Cruising Cruise operators seem to be living in fantasy land Jason Weisberger

books John Darnielle's new novel is a riveting metafictional meditation on true crime stories Thom Dunn

Rock n Roll The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones reacts to the singles of March 1965 Gareth Branwyn

music Are these the greatest songs of all time? David Pescovitz

sound effects Check out this demo of Plate Echo — "the greatest studio effect of all time" Mark Frauenfelder

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

music Dark Side of Light's "bummer summer" breeze Daniel Siwek

music 'Anticipation,' Carly Simon (1971) Xeni Jardin

mashups Crossing streams: A Beastie Boys and Ghostbusters musical mashup Rusty Blazenhoff

skateboards Scene report: Skateboarding in Huntington Beach, 1975 David Pescovitz

#blacklivesmatter Homeland Security analyst filmed telling black teen girl, "You don't deserve to be here" Mark Frauenfelder