The whole world sees the California Dream to the soundtrack of Beach Boys songs. “If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Beach Boys' landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds,” which helped raise pop music to new heights of gravitas, if not immediate appreciation, brims with bittersweet classics like "Wouldn't it be Nice" and ...