Brian Wilson, the chief architect behind surf-rock supernovas The Beach Boys, who soundtracked a generation of youthful ...

UVA pop culture expert Jack Hamilton says the 1960s music icon merged different genres into his unique style, taking rock and ...

The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt f ...

If Wilson must be known for one thing, let it be his inimitable sense of harmony, perfected across his craft and completely ...

Darian Sahanaja, a crucial part of Brian Wilson's band since 1999, shares his thoughts about the late Beach Boy's brilliant ...

Smile' by The Beach Boys never happened, and it could have changed the world of psychedelic pop for the better. Instead, it marked the end.

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense ...

John Cusack, who portrayed Brian Wilson in the biopic ‘Love & Mercy,’ reflects on his cherished time with the musician for ...

From 1988 to when he stopped touring in 2022, Brian Wilson forged an admirable solo career worth remembering. He played South ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...