Work on “Smile,” the California band’s much-labored-over follow-up to 1966’s epochal “Pet Sounds,” had flamed out spectacularly, bringing unwanted attention to Brian Wilson’s mental health struggles.

My daughter Amber brought me a gift – a rooted cutting of beach sunflower from her garden. Amber knows I’m partial to daisy-like flowers and beach sunflower (Helianthus debilis) fits the bill. The ...

The Beach Boys will explore the fertile era that yielded Sunflower and Surf’s Up in a new series of featurettes tied to the release of Feel Flows – The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions box set. The ...

The Feel Flows set presents complete versions of Sunflower and its 1971 follow-up Surf’s Up, spruced up and sharpened to a punchy full-spectrum clarity noticeably superior to the 2009 remasters ...

At the dawn of the Seventies, the Beach Boys had a lot to prove. Their pop success was a thing of the past — even artistic triumphs like Pet Sounds and Wild Honey were commercial flops. The boys of ...

As the checkout line briefly waned, just before another group of diners streamed in, Angelo Kyriacou left the cash registers to his two daughters and started an informal tour of the new Sunflower Cafe ...