Brian Wilson’s legacy came into focus while the California riots raged. As the chief conceptualizer and composer of the California pop band the Beach Boys, Wilson put the idea of post-World War II all ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling Stone ...

Though Brian Wilson was one of pop’s most studied artists, he largely remained an enigma. The Beach Boys leader, whose death at 82 was announced June 11, made music for the masses with an artisan’s ...

The band behind “Surfin’ Safari” and “Good Vibrations” – The Beach Boys – solidified their legacy within the music industry by showcasing the surf genre. And throughout the passing decades, the group ...

Brian Wilson’s death provides another opportunity for a review of his creative output and artistic struggles. Both were a reflection, if indirectly, of the broader contradictory interaction between ...

Al Jardine of the Beach Boys reflects on Brian Wilson's life and musical legacy after his passing. Jardine recalls how he and Wilson formed the Beach Boys while in college. The Pet Sounds Band, led by ...

When the Beach Boys front man died, the obituaries described him as a genius. Which means what, exactly? Anyone who grew up the 1960s grew up with the Beach Boys. The first time I heard them was on a ...

Carl Dean Wilson was an influential American musician, singer, and songwriter, best recognized as a founding member and the ...

Al Jardine’s endless summer officially began when he was 18 and co-founded the Beach Boys in 1961. It hasn’t stopped yet. “I’m still enjoying this too much to think of quitting,” said the 1988 Rock & ...

I made Brian Wilson sad once. I didn’t mean to. We were doing a radio interview, the first time I’d ever spoken to him, and I was so excited that I’d spent the entire morning organizing nearly every ...

Co-founding The Beach Boys in 1961, Brian Wilson helped elevate pop music to an art form. By the middle of the decade, Wilson had penned more than two dozen Top 40 hits, including “I Get Around” and ...