Psychedelic rockers The Lemon Twigs: ‘Singing for Brian Wilson at his birthday was surreal’
Hanging out with The Beach Boys’ troubled genius a signpost for still-youthful industry veterans Michael and Brian D’Addario
Brian Wilson
Deadbeat, Tame Impala’s new album, gets bogged down in angst
Kevin Parker staggers through this underwhelming, repetitive LP in a state of more or less permanent perturbation
Sophie White: ‘Staying playful and goofy is the secret of a happy relationship’
The author on her latest novel, Such a Good Couple; her experiences as a bipolar artist; and her genre-hopping tendencies
Jessica Pratt: ‘I’m not in awe of many people’s bodies of work in the way I am with Brian Wilson’s’
The creator of the extraordinary album Here in the Pitch discusses The Beach Boys, California and her dreamlike confessional pop
Tough Love: The basketball star who tried to guard Brian Wilson from harm
Stan Love resorted to extraordinary methods to protect his Beach Boy cousin during ‘chaotic years’
‘Burn them all out’: The prejudice bubbling under Ireland’s thin veneer of normality
Radio: Newstalk and RTÉ cover unrest in Ballymena and Los Angeles
Brian Wilson: Death of towering figure closes a chapter in music history
As the tortured visionary behind The Beach Boys, Wilson helped shape the world we live in today
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys musician and pop visionary, dies aged 82
Musician wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time
Sean O’Hagan: ‘That lovely, beautiful humanity I had with Cathal Coughlan in those later years was amazing’
The former Microdisney bandmates had cancer at the same time. Two years later O’Hagan is on the mend and has returned with a new High Llamas album
Countertenor Meili Li: ‘It’s not easy as a Chinese person to be accepted’
Finding a footing in the world of opera takes grit but this is a singer who likes a challenge
Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, dies aged 78
Acclaimed Be My Baby singer has died following a brief battle with cancer, family say
The Beach Boys: ‘It would be the right time to come back together, while we still have our voices’
The band on rising from the ashes of uncool to create their 1970s masterpieces
Fleet Foxes: ‘I’m trying to find silver linings in this madness, a healing space in music’
Robin Pecknold on how the pandemic cured his anxiety and the band’s new, fourth album
Echo in the Canyon: It’s as if 100 back issues of Mojo made a film of themselves
Review: Well-worn yarns of Laurel Canyon music in the groovy times get another airing
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