The Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson made his first appearance since he was placed under a second conservatorship this May, joined by his bandmates and family members. The influential 81-year ...

One of the architects of modern pop music with his game-changing work alongside The Beach Boys, what Brian Wilson hasn’t meticulously fretted over and manipulated for hours on end isn’t worth knowing.

While The Beach Boys’ early hits reflected the boisterous rough’n’tumble of a surfing lifestyle, it didn’t take long for Brian Wilson to find a melancholy angle to explore. “Surfer Girl ...

In the beginning, The Beach Boys were merely a family band, sharing harmonies and trading vocal runs around the living room.

and saxophonists Jim Horn and Plas Johnson. What did the other Beach Boys contribute to Pet Sounds? Understandably, Brian Wilson has received much of the acclaim over the years because it was his ...

A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE Sessions,” a two-disc set of tracks recorded by the Beach Boys during 1966-67 for the famous “lost” album that ...