NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of The Beach Boys on 24 December 2021. The Beach Boys has been played on NTS over 290 times, featured on 214 episodes and was first played on 4 February 2014.

The Beach Boys are an iconic American rock band, frequently cited as one of the most influential and commercially successful groups in the history of popular music due to their intricate vocal harmonies, studio experiments, and novel approaches to pop songwriting. Rooted in doo-wop and rock and roll, their early string of vocal surf hits defined the '60s California Sound. For a period afterward, they notably…