Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, has died at 82. The music icon helped define the 'California sound' with the American rock band he formed with his family members and a friend.

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and there were plenty of those,

The spark of the Beach Boys has died at age 82. A critic picks a dozen songs highlighting the talent of the group’s ‘resident genius.’