The Beach Boys weren't in the best place as the '60s drew to a close. In addition to being labeled an out-of-touch relic by the new generation of acid-dosed hippies, the band was going through an ...

Work on “Smile,” the California band’s much-labored-over follow-up to 1966’s epochal “Pet Sounds,” had flamed out spectacularly, bringing unwanted attention to Brian Wilson’s mental health struggles.

The Beach Boys will explore the fertile era that yielded Sunflower and Surf’s Up in a new series of featurettes tied to the release of Feel Flows – The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions box set. The ...

At the dawn of the Seventies, the Beach Boys had a lot to prove. Their pop success was a thing of the past — even artistic triumphs like Pet Sounds and Wild Honey were commercial flops. The boys of ...

The Feel Flows set presents complete versions of Sunflower and its 1971 follow-up Surf’s Up, spruced up and sharpened to a punchy full-spectrum clarity noticeably superior to the 2009 remasters ...