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It's a conversation among Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and Arizona Republic music writer Ed Masley. In a few short ...
Melodie de Nelson’ on Big Stir Records is a pop anthology of Nelson Bragg’s 21st century recordings plus a new bouncy opening track.
"This song, to me was really the quintessential Beach Boys song," said Stevie Nicks of this 1973 Beach Boys favorite.
As a child, before he began to struggle greatly with his mental health, there was one song that Brian Wilson said "brought ...
I wasn’t going to write anything about Brian Wilson, who died last month at the age of 82, because what could I possibly say ...
Brian Wilson was a genius of many things in music, but becoming a mogul and starting his own girl group was a tougher nut to ...
Sadly, Brian Wilson died on June 11, 2025, of respiratory failure at age 82. As he mourns his cousin and bandmate, Mike Love recently opened up about the last time the pair harmonized together.
Songwriter Van Dyke Parks has described late Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson as "intensely competitive, but so civilised" with ...
“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on ...