Rock

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances the formula.

This week the lore-rich, genre-smashing, entirely anonymous hard-rock band Sleep Token lands its first-ever No. 1 album. Elsewhere, on the Hot 100 singles chart, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" registers a 13th consecutive week at No. 1.

In 1993, Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows took roots-rock to new heights with their debut August and Everything After. More than 30 years later, they offer a new album, cut from the same cloth.

The Swedish hard-rock band Ghost has never topped the Billboard 200 albums chart — until this week. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1 for an 11th week, tying a record for hip-hop songs.

The seven acts voted into the Rock Hall this year include Southern rap and Midwest garage rock duos, pillars of the grunge and English blues rock eras and the '80s' most unusual pop star.

Formed in 1975, Pere Ubu embodied the industrial decay and hardscrabble ethics of Cleveland. Thomas tied together the band's sound with uncompromising vocals that exuded steely menace and unfettered anguish.

Panda Bear's wondrous music comes to life with the help of four additional friends who provide sweet, multi-layered harmonies.

The "tenderpunk" band brings its silly, sophisticated and scrappy songs to the Tiny Desk — along with a confetti cannon.

Bon Iver's new album, SABLE, fABLE, explores a world of new possibilities for the artist, and in the accumulation of hardships and opportunities that got him to this fresh start.