The Beach Boys Concert album features performances from two shows that the band played at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, on December 21, 1963, and August 1, 1964. The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. But that was then. Today, Pet Sounds is regarded not only as the equal of those records but, in ...

When you’re making music that no one else is making, you don’t have source material to reference. Musical experimentalists are left to hope the sound they are envisioning works out in the end. That ...

The Beach Boys recorded many Christmas songs, but Little Saint Nick stands alone as their most beloved holiday classic.

Released in the early 1970s, this Beach Boys song wasn’t a hit at first but evolved into a cult classic, and a praised return ...

No other band personifies the essence of California more than The Beach Boys, and if one member of the group was to be singled out as their heart and creative drive, it would undoubtedly be the late ...

The early years for Al Jardine of the Beach Boys were challenging ones. Though they would write a lot of car songs, the guitarist himself, didn't have one in his teenage years prior to joining the ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson has died at 82. “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away,” his family said on Instagram Wednesday. “We are at a loss for ...