We explore the fascinating insights into arranging bass guitar parts the Beach Boys' 1966 track "Wouldn't It Be Nice" offers.

Sunset Blvd., where in the late 1960s Wilson would regularly host cult leader Charles Manson and many of his followers, has ...

Between September and October 1963, 20 session musicians and four vocal acts decamped to Gold Star Studios in Hollywood to make a Christmas album with Phil Spector. Spector was a New York record ...

There are a few names in the world of music that deserve your attention. Some are more understated, looming up on your understanding of music like an assassin in the night, ready to kill your ...

Undoubtedly, The Beach Boys have a seat at the table of classic albums with their 1966 magnum opus Pet Sounds. Forever credited with pushing the realms of studio possibilities, it was a kaleidoscopic ...

14400 Sunset Blvd., where in the late 1960s Wilson would regularly host cult leader Charles Manson and many of his followers, has been left standing following the L.A. wildfires. By Lily Ford The ...

Given the iconic stature of The Beach Boys, you may assume the band committed their history to book form long ago. But the surf-rock heroes behind “California Girls,” “I Get Around ...

The Beach Boys will perform two concerts at American Music Theatre this spring. The band will visit the venue May 31, with shows at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The band last performed in Lancaster on ...

It may not have been one of the group’s most commercially successful LPs, but ‘Holland’ was, and remains, an admirable, self-contained and cohesive body of songs. There are many albums on ...

The Beach Boys’ version had been out for a few weeks as a track on their tenth studio album Beach Boys Party! Released as a single by Capitol on December 20, 1965, the track was backed with the ...

The Beach Boys haven’t topped the charts with a new song since 1988’s “Kokomo,” but for music author and GW alumnus David Leaf, the story of the group and their frontman Brian Wilson is still worth ...