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Following the death of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson at age 82 on June 11, the group's catalog surged 184% in equivalent album ...
Brian Wilson, the chief architect behind surf-rock supernovas The Beach Boys, who soundtracked a generation of youthful ...
Legendary achievements last forever but legends do not. Of course we know this. But in the monotonous run of days when ...
Longtime Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine will celebrate the catalogue of The Beach Boys with his debut solo tour of Australia ...
Books & the Arts / His music, by turns joyous and melancholy, wide-eyed and masterful, transformed the meaning of pop. James ...
There’s little left to say about the brilliance of Pet Sounds—except perhaps to show it. In honor of Brian Wilson, who passed ...
Culture / When the Beach Boys front man died, the obituaries described him as a genius. Which means what, exactly? Sid Holt ...
Wilson leaves behind a singular catalog of pop and rock music, which is of course headlined by his work in the '60s and '70s ...
The Beach Boys almost binned one of their biggest tracks as they feared it was too "bizarre", as did their record label, worried it wouldn't sell.