There’s a reason why The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is considered “a living genius of pop music.” He is the big brain behind the legendary and still-influential rock outfit, and he dished ...

Sunset Blvd., where in the late 1960s Wilson would regularly host cult leader Charles Manson and many of his followers, has ...

We explore the fascinating insights into arranging bass guitar parts the Beach Boys' 1966 track "Wouldn't It Be Nice" offers.

Mike Love, a co-founder and lead vocalist for the Beach Boys, is among this year’s fun, fun, fun honorees for the Songwriters ...

One of the architects of modern pop music with his game-changing work alongside The Beach Boys, what Brian Wilson hasn’t meticulously fretted over and manipulated for hours on end isn’t worth knowing.

Following Pet Sounds, those three tracks were spots of sunlight in an otherwise self-perceived period of creative darkness for The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. Yet, when Wilson is pressed on what ...

The Beach Boys haven’t topped the charts with a new song since 1988’s “Kokomo,” but for music author and GW alumnus David Leaf, the story of the group and their frontman Brian Wilson is still worth ...

Brian Wilson and Al Jardine made it clear in 2020 where they stood on their former bandmate performing for Donald Trump. [email protected] Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.

There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the fertile musical imagination of Brian Wilson.

The Beach Boys’ version ... tenth studio album Beach Boys Party! Released as a single by Capitol on December 20, 1965, the track was backed with the great Brian Wilson song “Girl Don’t ...