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Beach Boys set 2026 dates in the US and UK

The Beach Boys will play a string of summer U.K. shows with more U.S. concerts scheduled both before and afterward. See a ...
After a major career shift, The Beach Boys released Johnny Carson, a misstep many still rank as the band’s worst song ever.
Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for his groundbreaking ...
The story of how session musician extraordinaire Glen Campbell briefly joined The Beach Boys and helped shape their sound.
Al Jardine’s endless summer officially began when he was 18 and co-founded The Beach Boys in 1961. It hasn’t stopped yet. “I’m still enjoying this too much to think of quitting,” said the 1988 Rock & ...
Peter Doggett’s story of the band in Surf’s Up shines the spotlight on all five members and gives us a new appreciation of their work after their glory days The Beach Boys in 1967: From left, Carl ...
The Texas Longhorns host Vanderbilt this weekend in a game with massive playoff implications. Win or lose, fans can relax to the sounds of the Beach Boys, who will perform after the game. But to some ...
The early years for Al Jardine of the Beach Boys were challenging ones. Though they would write a lot of car songs, the guitarist himself, didn’t have one in his teenage years prior to joining the ...
The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...