News about Charles Manson, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

American singer, songwriter, and record producer Brian Wilson, who is best known as the co-founder of the rock band The Beach Boys, passed away recently at the age of 82.

When the Beach Boys first came onto the music scene in the early '60s, their music encapsulated summer fun and surf culture.

The Beach Boys had a strange connection with cult leader Charles Manson that could've turned deadly. Brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin, Love, and friend Al Jardine formed The ...

Plenty of people say they don't like the Beatles or say they're overrated. These songs might make those people change their minds.

Brian Wilson, whose virtuoso vocal and musical arrangements led the Beach Boys to commercial and critical success, making ...

Recent years have not been kind to musicians, particularly guitarists who have passed on one after another since the pandemic ...

Ahead of his solo set at the Weekender Festival on Sunday 6 July, former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan talks to TOM OGG about his personal struggles, his disdain for modern music – and why his current ...

Not every fan of a band has to share their same artistic vision, but Bono was taken aback when people were repelled by some ...

The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into his soundscape. That’s why it’s equally surprising and totally believable ...

Let’s not pretend we haven’t ended up deep in a Criminal Minds binge at 2 a.m., completely spooked but unable to stop watching.