The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into ...

Brian Wilson's "smart Girls" was supposed to be the centerpiece and/or big closing number of his Sire Records album "Sweet Insanity." Instead it was one of the big reasons the album was shelved.

The world is mourning the loss of music icon Brian Wilson ... the very start of the '90s he recorded a rap song, “Smart Girls.” According to Wilson’s first memoir, "Wouldn’t It Be Nice ...

From summertime rock classics to complex meditations on adult longing, the Beach Boys genius changed music forever ...

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

Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys co-founder who masterminded the group's decades-long popularity and soundtracked the California ...

The former Beach Boy's distinctive sound - sunshine tinged with melancholy - still rings true, writes longtime fan Nik Dirga.

John Stamos was by Beach Boys founding member Mike Love's side when news of Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday stunned the ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who created some of history’s most purely beautiful pop music, ...

The death of a towering figure such as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson marks the closing of a chapter in the history of music ...

That version of Wilson was played by Paul Dano with eerie specificity. He captured Wilson’s unlikely combination of ambition, innocence, brilliance, and fragility. The sense that the man who produced ...