Dolour's Suburbiac, Making Brian Wilson Smile - Page 2

Also memorable are the skittering electronic breakbeat rhythms and infectious chorus of "Highway Hypnosis," and the lovely Rhodes-based '70s soul of "Rest Your Head" (tres Todd!). Very, very fine.

If you, like Dolour, are in the Northwest, check the band out on their (live band includes Phil Peterson on pocket trumpet, synthesizer, and harmonies; Eric Hawk on guitar; Sugar McGuinn on bass; Joey Sanchez on drums) upcoming mini-tour:

March 4 - SF - Cafe Du Nord
March 5 - OAKLAND - Stork Club
March 6 - CHICO - Tower Records in-store
March 7 - EUGENE - A Performance and Interview on 88.1 KWVA
plus - a Live show @ The Sameri Duck
March 8 - PORTLAND - Meow Meow

Dolour also appears on the fascinating if uneven Brian Wilson tribute album, Making God Smile. This time it's a real band recording with Tutmarc backed by his friends from Wonderful on "This Whole World," a relatively obscure track from the Beach Boys' Sunflower album. The acoustic guitar pop-rocker performs the astonishing trick of changing keys every verse, another of Brian's "teenage symphonies to God" indeed.

Other highlights of the mostly alt-Christian artist collection include Tom Prasada-Rao and Amilia K. Spicer doing "Your Imagination"with an Aimee Mann feel to it, a remarkably faithful "Good Vibrations" from Cleveland guitar legend Phil Keaggy, Sixpence None the Richer on "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," and a strange goth-electronic version of "Help Me Rhonda" by Kevin Max (who sounds remarkably like Bono in places) and Jimmy A.

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