The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...

Smile' stands as one of the great what-if projects in rock history. In 1967, The Beach Boys officially gave up on the ...

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The already-announced Front List series of events at the McEwan Hall features such names as Nicola Sturgeon, Maggie O’Farrell ...

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within ...

Brian Wilson was a troubled genius who made so many people happy but had far too much sadness in his life already.

A couple days ago, we lost pop music visionary Brian Wilson. Since the news of his passing, there’s been a massive outpour of admiration for the late Beach Boy. Yesterday, Grammy nominated producer ...

Brian Wilson was troubled and fragile and undeniably brilliant, driven to make music of surpassing beauty, complexity and ...

Brian Wilson, cofounder of The Beach Boys and the creative force behind the group’s surf sound, orchestral arrangements and ...

Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.