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 ...

Brian Wilson once wrote Don Henley a complimentary note. He almost immediately edited it to be a little harsher.

Part I Wouldn’t It Be Nice The eulogies for Brian Wilson continue to roll in like the surf break at Huntington Beach. Testimonials to Wilson’s ...

Who knows what really happened to Brian Wilson? By the time modern audiences came to know and love his work, something was deeply, observably amiss within the mind and body of the California-born ...

John Stamos is opening up about the "heartbreaking" moment he revealed to Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love that his cousin and ...

Brian Wilson thought one of The Beach Boys' biggest hits would cause controversy. Here's why he thought one taboo word would be a problem.

While being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the late Brian Wilsons former Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love said he ...

From simple surf rock to complex orchestral pop, the number one Beach Boy had a tremendous impact on music, culture, and the ...

For Brian Wilson’s lengthy contributions to the tarnished monolith of 20th-century rock culture, neither he nor his work has ...

When inducting Brian Wilson into the songwriters Hall of Fame, Paul McCartney recalled how Wilson's 'God Only Knows" brought ...

In the spring and summer of 1966, a series of songs by the Beach Boys commanded our attention for reasons that went beyond fun in the sun and the waves. The first was “Sloop John B,” which was an old ...