UVA pop culture expert Jack Hamilton says the 1960s music icon merged different genres into his unique style, taking rock and ...

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed away June 11 at age 82, just two days after fellow Californian Sly Stone of Sly and the ...

Part I Wouldn’t It Be Nice The eulogies for Brian Wilson continue to roll in like the surf break at Huntington Beach.

American music's equivalent to John Lennon has crossed the rainbow bridge, an ever-tedious euphemism for death.

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense ...

Brian Wilson has been cited as a major influence on several different genres, and sometimes, considered one of the first ...

There are almost no corners of the music world that Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson didn’t touch, so since news broke ...

While being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the late Brian Wilsons former Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love said he ...

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 243 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at indiecastmailbag@gmail.com, and make ...

From simple surf rock to complex orchestral pop, the number one Beach Boy had a tremendous impact on music, culture, and the ...

The death of the legendary musical genius behind The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, was announced yesterday. But his striking influence on Los Angeles is likely eternal. His music is in part responsible ...