Brian Wilson died today. He was 82 years old. I have been asked to write a column that sums up his impact on modern music. The problem is that this is impossible. It’s like trying to explain the ...

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson declared a vintage folk song "the greatest ever," and it's a pick that stops music fans in their tracks. Beloved 70s shock rocker Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

The Beach Boys loom so large in our shared cultural imagination that it’s surprising to remember that the group only appeared in a single feature motion picture. Yes, the “beach party” movies of the ...

The familiar melody struck a chord for its wistful, dreamlike sound ...

Brian Wilson, a two-time Grammy Award winner and steward of ecstatic, sobering pop music, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Immediately, every social media feed imaginable flooded with anecdotes, ...

"Surfer Girl" was released on August 3, 1963, and it reached No. 7 on the Billboard charts by September 14 of that same year.