The Beach Boys' co-founder talks to The Times about his longtime former bandmate who helped shape the culture of SoCal music.

Wilson’s life: Wilson’s connection to the county includes his birthplace of Inglewood, his high school in Hawthorne, the band ...

Brian Wilson made “The Beach Boys Love You” emerging from mental illness. It was a major flop, ending his relationship with ...

Think of it as a response to The Ronettes' “Be My Baby.” The hot-rod hit “Don't Worry Baby” is the cheery B-side to “I Get ...

62 years ago, the Beach Boys ... the band harmonizes. “We’ve been having fun all summer long.” For all the flack you might toss my way for putting a cover song this high on the ranking ...

But most importantly, the song establishes the band — and Wilson’s own — larger-than-life aspirations, where pop music could be both avant-garde and built of earworms. 1966: The Beach Boys ...

The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief. Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price for ... Carl and Dennis, Beach Boys co-founder Wilson ...

The news release described the "Adventure Awaits" theme as "an unforgettable journey through all the makes the state fair a ...

Line 3 stretched to a third set. With the Florida High School Athletic Association expanding from one classification of beach volleyball to three and thus reshuffling the districts before this ...

On Tuesday, by way of marking the death of the legendary American musician Sly Stone, John Kelly plays a selection of tunes by the late funk-rock visionary on Mystery Train (Lyric FM, Sunday-Thursday) ...

The Army had long planned ... President Woodrow Wilson was the focal point. In Boston, a million civilians celebrated 20,000 troops in 1919. New York honored 25,000 troops marching in full uniform ...