Johnston joined the Beach Boys in 1965, filling in for bandleader Brian Wilson on tour. He eventually cracked the recording lineup, however, and played a crucial role in albums re ...

Curiously, only one of the original Beach Boys knew how to surf ... s ‘Pet Sounds,’ one of the most gorgeous and influential albums ever made. Wilson soon tried to top himself, but suffered ...

Surfboard featured on the covers of two early Beach Boys albums set to be auctioned for $150,000 Legend has it that Dennis Wilson - the band's only real surfer - brought his own board along to the ...

If you’ve got a lot of love for California or plan on kicking off a road trip to the Golden State, you’ll need a solid ...

the issue is “not that they didn’t make some albums still eminently worth hearing,” but “a kind of philosophical problem.” “[T]ime and social change have been rough on the Beach Boys ...

Probyn Gregory, a multi-instrumentalist who played alongside Jardine from 1999 to 2022, has already committed to “Weird Al” ...

As Beach Boys fans gear up for an orchestral reimagining ... Not unlike Johnny Mathis albums, or Frank Sinatra albums at the time, which were one romantic theme. Wilson: I wanted to grow musically.

As he brings the cross-Canada Endless Summer Gold 2025 tour to Sudbury on April 5, the 84-year-old says there was never a time when music wasn’t in his life. Out of three kids, both he and his sister ...

While the Beach Boys popularity waned for a period, the band experienced a full-blown revival when the compilation album Endless Summer was released in 1974. This collection of the group’s early hits ...