On November 5, 1988, wintertime was creeping ever closer to the United States, and, consequently, The Beach Boys were enjoying a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with one of the most divisive tracks ...

In the truest sense, Dennis Wilson is the only real Beach Boy, insofar as nobody else in the band could actually surf. And he ...

The Wayne County Fair, set for Aug. 1-9 this year, always has musical acts, with many big names over the years appearing before the grandstand crowd. Residents still recall one memorable band in 1963 ...

Few songs have changed pop music, production styles, linguistics, or history in general quite like the song The Beach Boys released on October 10, 1966. Decades later, these notions might sound ...

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 ...

When the Beach Boys started back in 1961, they seemed like little more than a novelty surf band that would vanish from memory by the following summer. But 64 years later, against all odds, their saga ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if the The Beach Boys were to come to Austin and perform? Well, Austinites are in luck, as the rock and ...

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When arguing over who the most influential bands in pop music history are, The Beatles frequently dominate the conversation. But it’s The Beach Boys, and particularly the masterful touch of Brian ...