The Beatles and The Beach Boys went back and forth at each other in the mid-60s. Their friendly rivalry set the tone for the decade's music.

Need some super nostalgic songs to get you through a hard day? These three 60s tracks will transport you back in time.

I wasn’t going to write anything about Brian Wilson, who died last month at the age of 82, because what could I possibly say ...

On the cusp of their artistic peak, The Beach Boys had crafted a number which threatened to wind up both the religious right and countercultural underground.

Paul McCartney's three favorite albums were written by his contemporaries. Here's the music that has stuck with him over the years.

Get tickets to see the Beach Boys concert tour at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Blue Note Summer Sessions in Napa.

One such surprise arrived on CD from Chill Tone Records: Sub Rosa, the new album by the Julian Shore Trio. It’s an ...

The resulting "California Girls" was released as a single on July 12, 1965, backed with "Let Him Run Wild," and it went to No ...

A concert paying tribute to the Beach Boys included Carnie Wilson and her mother and daughter, plus former members Blondie Chaplin and David Marks.

His father, a frustrated songwriter who sold heavy machinery, was a "tyrant and heavy drinker" and abused Brian physically and emotionally. Brian was a musical prodigy, teaching himself piano and ...

If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering.

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on ...