Every Sidewalk

Pop music remembers the 1960s these days as one big, happy, harmony-filled Wall of Sound, before the Beatles broke up, Brian Wilson broke down, and the Doors broke through and ruined everything. The groups that have come across as virtual tribute bands produce a sound that reeks of innocence and young love, cashing in on a genuine feeling of nostalgia, even if most of that feeling is strictly kitsch-based and most of its practitioners weren't even alive to enjoy it the first time. We now even have a genre of bands you could call '60s revivalists, stemming from the Elephant 6 collective of musicians that includes ringleader Apples in Stereo and its disciples Of Montreal and the Minders -Pop Matters