“Woudn’t It Be Nice” reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, while its follow-up single, “God Only Knows,” hit No. 39 ...

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.

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 ...

Millions around the world are mourning the loss of Brian Wilson, the creative mind behind the Beach Boys’ biggest hits, ...

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

American music's equivalent to John Lennon has crossed the rainbow bridge, an ever-tedious euphemism for death.

With his recent passing, which stars like John Cusack and Stephen King recently paid tribute to, I was reminded of one of the ...

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 ...