The Beach Boys have announced a new two-disc set of rarities and unreleased material, Sunshine Tomorrow. The set covers the music they made after finishing Pet Sounds and abandoning work on the Smile ...

The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson included “Heroes and Villains” as one of his favorite original songs, even calling the Smiley Smile track “one of the greatest collaborations ever done.” Here’s what we ...

You will not hear any grand pronouncements from Brian Wilson about “SMiLE.’’ Never mind that a version of the album - abandoned 44 years ago and easily the most ...

Pictured is the Beach Boys’ “Smile” album cover. The Beach Boys and The Beatles often inspired each others’ music, like Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” inspiring Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club ...

As we lose another hour of daylight, it's fitting to turn to sunnier-sounding music to warm our bodies from the ears on out: Brazilian tropicália, perhaps, or Jamaican rocksteady—or those kings of ...

Yet SMiLE was but a fraction of the Beach Boys’ 1967, arguably the most prolific year the original lineup of the group ever enjoyed together. Now there’s a great new compilation entitled 1967—Sunshine ...

26. Wild Honey (Live) (2:53) – recorded in Detroit, November 17, 1967 27. Country Air (Live) (2:20) – recorded in Detroit, November 17, 1967 ...