AJ McLean is on Zoom on Monday afternoon from the dimly lighted living room of a house he’s renting in Las Vegas. Known in the late 1990s as the resident bad boy of his pop group, Backstreet Boys, ...

The Beach Boys were America’s first great rock group, and their influence — and Brian Wilson’s songwriting — has been reverberating ever since. Here are 25 of his greatest songs.

Two years before Brian Wilson's death at age 82, the Beach Boys co-founder shared a story about meeting Bob Dylan in an ...

Wilson certainly was versed in simple rock ‘n’ roll, but his peak 1960s compositions had a sophistication of composition and vocal and instrumental arrangement that felt closer to classical music, ...

What’s certain is that he did horn in on Wilson’s creative life, “contributing” lyrics to songs. As such, Brian’s ostensible comeback was considered compromised.

Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson, who created some of rock's most enduring songs such as "Good Vibrations" and "God Only ...

Brian Wilson, third from left, with fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and Mike Love, after they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in New York, January 1988.

Get a dose of blues at Selwyn Birchwood concert, hit the Swamp Stomp, costume up for Infinity Con and raise a toast to the ...

“That is probably why I wrote those happy songs. I try to get as close to paradise as ... “I get the impression that Brian knew he was running out of time and if he was going to present the work he’d ...

Keep your eye on Hawk, a frontman as natural as Jarvis Cocker, as witty and observant as The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon in ...