Days spent on the sand are finally here, but your packing list isn’t complete without the best summer songs to set the mood. The thing is beach songs can sound like anything you want. Ukuleles and ...

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.

At his peak, Brian Wilson - who died this week at age 82 - went through periods the way a painter does. First, he made his family-and-friends act The Beach Boys a band for all seasons (but one in ...

Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote some of the 20th century’s best and most enduring pop songs. These are some of our favorites. If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ...