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The Beach Boys are getting around once more and marking more than half a century of feelgood songs with appearances which ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ lead songwriter and inventive producer, was finally finished with “Good Vibrations,” a song he had been perfecting, on-and-off, for months throughout 1966. In the studio, ...

A few days before the release of the documentary The Beach Boys, founding members Mike Love and Al Jardine are sitting in the recording studio at Hollywood’s EastWest Studios, the exact spot where ...

And for a minute, it seemed like Wilson might have been, too. “After the poor sales of Pet Sounds, I felt that I had made my point,” he later said, per Keith Badman’s The Beach Boys: The Definitive ...

The Beach Boys started rehearsing and recording “Good Vibrations” the week of February 17, 1966, but the inspiration for the song came to Brian Wilson years earlier while growing up in Hawthorne, ...

This summer, Mike Love is back on tour, leading The Beach Boys around the U.S. on a tour that will visit more than 70 cities. At 83, Love is the last member of the classic 1960s Beach Boys lineup ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. That, in effect, ...

Brian Wilson, the co-founder and creative heartbeat of the Beach Boys, has passed away at 82. For a man who once turned the sound of surfboards and sunshine into something approaching spiritual, his ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...