“Woudn’t It Be Nice” reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, while its follow-up single, “God Only Knows,” hit No. 39 ...

This week's bonus Vintage Pop Stardom episode on the Greatest Pop Stars podcast pays tribute to the late Brian Wilson with a ...

Books & the Arts / His music, by turns joyous and melancholy, wide-eyed and masterful, transformed the meaning of pop. James ...

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

Millions around the world are mourning the loss of Brian Wilson, the creative mind behind the Beach Boys’ biggest hits, ...

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

With his recent passing, which stars like John Cusack and Stephen King recently paid tribute to, I was reminded of one of the ...

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Who knows what really happened to Brian Wilson? By the time modern audiences came to know and love his work, something was deeply, observably amiss within the mind and body of the California-born ...