News

I wasn’t going to write anything about Brian Wilson, who died last month at the age of 82, because what could I possibly say ...
On the cusp of their artistic peak, The Beach Boys had crafted a number which threatened to wind up both the religious right and countercultural underground.
Get tickets to see the Beach Boys concert tour at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Blue Note Summer Sessions in Napa.
One such surprise arrived on CD from Chill Tone Records: Sub Rosa, the new album by the Julian Shore Trio. It’s an ...
The resulting "California Girls" was released as a single on July 12, 1965, backed with "Let Him Run Wild," and it went to No ...
The Beach Boys weren't safe from a few goofy songs now and again, but Dennis Wilson knew some albums were never meant to ...
His father, a frustrated songwriter who sold heavy machinery, was a "tyrant and heavy drinker" and abused Brian physically and emotionally. Brian was a musical prodigy, teaching himself piano and ...
If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering.
“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on ...
The Beach Boys founding member will play classic hits, rarities and deep cuts as a tribute to the late Brian Wilson Aug. 22.
Both are from Pet Sounds. In total, The Beach Boys boast 35 top 40-charted hits on the Hot 100.
Brian Wilson played to sold-out houses in 2018 on a tour called “Pet Sounds, the Final Performances,” with loyal friend (and original Beach Boy) Al Jardine by his side.