We don’t hear any audio, but we do see Brian Wilson smile. As a tearful Mike Love tells the camera in a recent talking head interview, “We don’t really talk much. But if I could, I’d ...

A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE ... live shows and possibly do some recording, and Love has voiced a hope to write some new songs with his cousin, Wilson.

SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, And Resurrection Of Brian Wilson is Leaf ’s obsessive oral history of that famous slow-motion triumph. Nearly 40 decades after his first Wilson biography, Leaf’s bank of sources ...

Key contributors include Wilson’s charmingly eccentric collaborator Van Dyke Parks and bandleader Darian Sahanaja, without whom the resurrected SMiLE would never have happened. As for the fragile ...