The Beach Boys Archives

Founded in Hawthorne, CA, in 1961, by brothers Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson, their cousin, Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine, The Beach Boys would go on to serve as musical ambassadors for Californian culture, inviting fans from around the world to embrace love, youthful exuberance, and surf culture while helping to[...]

No one can ever deny the California-based The Beach Boys' place in pop culture history as one of the biggest mainstream successes in American music. With Brian Wilson's passing on June 11th at the age of 82, Full House star John Stamos, who, like his character Jesse Katsopolis, is a musician, paid tribute to the founding Beach Boys member as a[...]