Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long for a Beach Boys reunion featuring fractured genius Brian Wilson and the few living members (but alas, no John Stamos)? Well we are older now, and we don't have to wait much longer: to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band's first single, Brian Wilson and those living original members have bandied together for a 50-show tour and reunion album next year. Check out a clip of them re-recording "Do It Again" below. more ›

In 1966, a 24-year-old Brian Wilson began work on the song "Good Vibrations." It took him over seven months to complete it, but it became one of the centerpieces of the Beach Boys would-be followup album to their landmark "Pet Sounds". Originally titled "Dumb Angel," the album that eventually became known as "Smile" was to be Wilson's "teenage symphony to God," and a grand survey of popular American music influenced conceptually by the work of George Gershwin. But between the challenging material, heavy drug use, and inter-band fighting, the project came to a screeching halt in an incomplete form, and left Wilson in a fractured and insecure mental state. more ›

What Rolling Stone once called "the most famous unfinished album in rock & roll history," will soon be released in a massive, deluxe box set. The never-before-released original 1966/1967 album sessions for SMiLE by the Beach Boys will be available come this November 1st, as the band readies to celebrate the big 5-0 in 2012. We're told: more ›