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The Beach Boys’ ‘409’ was about a specific Chevrolet hot rod. The Beach Boys created an original song about one particular hot rod. Released initially on Surfin’ Safari, “409” made its ...
A group of music students in Orange County, Calif. have covered the classic Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds. The 1966 LP is regarded as a pop-rock masterpiece, and a landmark release for its ...
Hear Jim James Reinvent Beach Boys Song on New Covers LP My Morning Jacket singer reworks "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," plus covers of Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, on 'Tribute To 2' By Ryan Reed ...
Beach Boys co-frontman and Brian Wilson frenemy Mike Love is about to release an entirely inessential solo album featuring reworks of Beach Boys classics and some covers, and in news you just can ...
Mike Love compared the cover of The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ to the cover of a classic Beach Boys album During a 2013 interview with Rock Cellar Magazine , Love discussed a conversation he had ...
Three tracks from 'Beach Boys' Party!: Uncovered and Unplugged,' including Beatles and Bob Dylan covers, are now streaming.
Brian Wilson, the brilliant musician who codified the California teen lifestyle in a series of ’60s hits by his band the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.
Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to Brian Wilson by sharing a cover he recorded of one of the Beach Boys’ greatest hits. Hours after Wilson’s death at age 82 was announced, the Green Day guitarist ...
The Beach Boys share their story in a new book chronicling their rise from a small garage band formed in a Los Angeles suburb in the early 1960s to one of the world's greatest groups.
Mo Troper, the Portland power-pop musician whose most recent full-length MTV was our Album Of The Week, puts out covers with some regularity. A couple months ago, he offered up his take on Chris ...
This week a Disney+ documentary called, simply enough, “The Beach Boys” celebrates the group’s crowning achievement, the landmark “Pet Sounds” album on its 58th anniversary.
If The Beach Boys felt threatened by the Fab Four’s explosive arrival, they were not going down without a fight.