June 11, 2025 • The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's greatest songwriters and producers. Here are NPR's best ...

Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with biographer Peter Ames Carlin about Wilson's legacy. THE BEACH BOYS: (Singing ...

From 1988 to when he stopped touring in 2022, Brian Wilson forged an admirable solo career worth remembering. He played South ...

For most listeners, the Beach Boys had peaked with “Pet Sounds” and “Good Vibrations”, a masterful album and single both released in 1966. Yet the albums they recorded over the following ...

Amidst palm trees and beaches, “The Beach Boys” documentary starts off in the idyllic neighborhood of Hawthorne, California. In 1961, a group of Hawthorne boys came together to harmonize and ...

Nobody, not even their record company, believed in the Beach Boys – and who could blame ... offers a more balanced portrait of the band's legacy.) Recruits Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar ...

The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions: genius and triviality, harmony and disharmony, creativity and commodity, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Endorsed by ...

In the late 1980s, the Beach Boys’ legacy depended almost entirely on the sunshiney, coastal music they released two decades earlier. Indeed, it was this kind of sun-soaked pop the producers of ...

Beach Boys’ cofounder Al Jardine was among the stars serenading fans at the 2024 Sunflower Festival on May 4. JON WOODHOUSE photo Beach Boys’ cofounder Al Jardine was among the stars ...