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

Smile' stands as one of the great what-if projects in rock history. In 1967, The Beach Boys officially gave up on the ...

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The already-announced Front List series of events at the McEwan Hall features such names as Nicola Sturgeon, Maggie O’Farrell ...

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Darian Sahanaja, a crucial part of Brian Wilson's band since 1999, shares his thoughts about the late Beach Boy's brilliant ...

Brian Wilson was a troubled genius who made so many people happy but had far too much sadness in his life already.

Following the death of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, Doug Kolk took a moment to break down why Wilson is so widely regarded as a musical genius. From inspiring The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper to ...

Brian Wilson was troubled and fragile and undeniably brilliant, driven to make music of surpassing beauty, complexity and ...

Brian Wilson, cofounder of The Beach Boys and the creative force behind the group’s surf sound, orchestral arrangements and ...

Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.