The 1950s and ’60s ushered in the “California-cation” of pop music, with bright, optimistic tunes like the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” ruling the airwaves. Perhaps none made a larger ...

You've almost certainly heard this 1965 classic by the Mamas and the Papas, but you may not have heard the 1986 cover by ...

The Beach Boys have no small shortage of classic hits to remember, but if you were going to focus on one in particular, Brian Wilson has a song in mind. He often credits this iconic track as being the ...

Fall may be around the corner, but let this playlist of beachy and San Diego-inspired songs keep you in the summer mindset for a little bit longer. Listen at the beach, on your drive down the 5 or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brilliant Brian Wilson was the driving force behind The Beach Boys and a great deal of other music. His genius was such that ...

A day on the sand just isn't complete without a playlist that sets the right tone and gives off good feelings from morning to afternoon. From 1950s beach music to modern rock and pop, singers ...

Brian Wilson’s death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana. Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly ...

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Here's a quintessential summer listen! Sampling iconic tracks like Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London," it's a nostalgic sing-along anthem that blends rock, ...