“The Man with All the Toys,” “Santa’s Beard,” “Merry Christmas ... a significant shift for not just the Beach Boys, but for Brian Wilson’s songwriting. Both songs still merged ...

There’s a reason why The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is considered “a living genius of pop music.” He is the big brain behind the legendary and still-influential rock outfit, and he dished ...

We explore the fascinating insights into arranging bass guitar parts the Beach Boys' 1966 track "Wouldn't It Be Nice" offers.

Mike Love, a co-founder and lead vocalist for the Beach Boys, is among this year’s fun, fun, fun honorees for the Songwriters ...

In the summer of 1968, Manson recorded several tracks at Brian Wilson’s home studio, though the recordings remain unreleased to the public. The Beach Boys recorded one of Manson’s songs ...

One of the architects of modern pop music with his game-changing work alongside The Beach Boys, what Brian Wilson hasn’t meticulously fretted over and manipulated for hours on end isn’t worth knowing.

Following Pet Sounds, those three tracks were spots of sunlight in an otherwise self-perceived period of creative darkness for The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. Yet, when Wilson is pressed on what ...

In the final years of his life, the musical genius behind songs like “Go All the Way” and “All by Myself” was estranged from ...

The Beach Boys haven’t topped the charts with a new song since 1988’s “Kokomo,” but for music author and GW alumnus David Leaf, the story of the group and their frontman Brian Wilson is still worth ...

Brian Wilson and Al Jardine made it clear in 2020 where they stood on their former bandmate performing for Donald Trump. [email protected] Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.

There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the fertile musical imagination of Brian Wilson.