Around 10 years younger than the Beach Boys, I grew up listening to their music. As if I had a choice. It was everywhere in the air. Every house, every car, every weekend cookout. The mall speakers at ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

Around ten years younger than the Beach Boys, I grew up listening to their music. As if I had a choice! It was everywhere in the air. Every house, every car, every weekend cook-out. The overhead ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' creative force, passed away on June 11th at 82. Wilson's music, particularly the album *Pet Sounds*, resonated with a generation grappling with complex emotions. While ...