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’ “Good Vibrations” and Cyndi Lauper have some major things in common. The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” topped the Billboard Hot 10. Lauper’s song was big as well but it did not reach ...

I was scrolling through my Google feed (that algorithm really gets me in ways that are both spooky and oddly comforting) when, kaboom, a headline fired up my inner skeptic. “Good Vibrations by The ...

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 ...

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’ ...

The Beach Boys had a very specific formula in their early days, but Brian Wilson felt that some tunes far outweigh the rest of thier catalogue.

No one in Belfast was thinking about the sugary pop songs of the Beach Boys in the 1970s when the Troubles were at their height. Instead, people were trying to make it home without being shot or blown ...

In their near-decade together since forming MISSIO in 2015, the Austin, TX genre-defying duo of Matthew Brue and David Butler have been building up their audience and their distinctive brand of ...

Exploring comments made from legendary musician Brian Wilson, founding member of The Beach Boys, naming the favourite song he's ever written in his career.