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 ...

A new 5-disc reissue of the 1970 and 1971 albums Sunflower and Surf's Up reveals the Beach Boys at a crossroads, having moved beyond surf-music pop hits, and shooting for more mainstream success. This ...

But, despite dramatic cultural shifts and myriad distractions, the Beach Boys never stopped working. They recorded all the time, either as a band or as individuals, generating dozens of new songs and ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. By the end of the 1960s, The Beach Boys had come to a crossroads. Their early, lightweight surf music hits were behind them, and Brian Wilson's more ambitious compositions were ...

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 ...

Their dilemma was embodied in the single they put out that year: the A side, a Brian Wilson song called “Break Away,” harkened back to “Surfin USA”-era Beach Boys. The B side was Dennis Wilson’s ...

A new 5-disc reissue of the 1970 and 1971 albums Sunflower and Surf's Up reveals the Beach Boys at a crossroads, having moved beyond surf-music... 'Feel Flows' captures the Beach Boys at the peak of ...