Even great commercial success isn’t always enough to convince someone they’re worthy as an artist, as proven by the strange, sad request Brian Wilson had while traveling on the same day that one of ...

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, ...

The Beach Boys are known not only for hit singles like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and more, but also for one particular album -- their influential 1966 masterpiece, "Pet ...

I was driving through Minnesota's lake country on a perfect summer morning a few weeks ago. The air was still, the sky was deep blue, mid-summer greenery was lush and rolling endlessly into the future ...

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’ ...