Al Jardine may need a trip to Kokomo ... 'cause the Beach Boys star is dealing with a legal headache after being sued for allegedly refusing to sign merch.

There, he was dubbed the “First Tycoon of Teen,” signed his first artist ... a significant shift for not just the Beach Boys, but for Brian Wilson’s songwriting. Both songs still merged ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1968, Manson recorded several tracks at Brian Wilson’s home studio, though the recordings remain unreleased to the public. The Beach Boys recorded one of Manson’s songs ...

George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, The Beach Boys’ Mike Love and Tony Macaulay ...

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.

In the final years of his life, the musical genius behind songs like “Go All the Way” and “All by Myself” was estranged from ...

Fronted in LA by the magnetic Arthur Lee, Love emerged from the Sunset Strip scene around the same time as The Doors - but where Jim Morrison and co went on to stardom, Love snatched defeat from the ...