The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...

"Caroline, No" was released as the first solo Brian Wilson song in 1966, and then appeared as the closing track on the ...

‘Darlin’’ (1967) The Beach Boys were in decline by 1967 — in health and hipness alike. Wilson revamped a song he wrote with ...

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions ...

It's not rare to see Wilson's bright, sunny Southern California music with The Beach Boys used to contrast dark moments on ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most ...

Think of it as a response to The Ronettes' “Be My Baby.” The hot-rod hit “Don't Worry Baby” is the cheery B-side to “I Get ...

The spark of the Beach Boys has died at age 82. A critic picks a dozen songs highlighting the talent of the group’s ‘resident ...

“When I was around 10 or 12 years old,” Brian Wilson said, “my mom and I were walking to the market one day and a dog started ...

If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect ...

In Steven Gaines’s racy, now out-of-print Beach Boys biography Heroes and Villains, he recounts that Gary Usher – who wrote ...