When you’re making music that no one else is making, you don’t have source material to reference. Musical experimentalists are left to hope the sound they are envisioning works out in the end. That ...

While Brian Wilson was willing to do anything he could to create magic, he felt that his best records were the ones that took ...

Brian Wilson didn't ever want to call too much attention to himself, but he knew when The Beach Boys knocked it out of the ...

Brian Wilson with an autographed copy of his album 'Smile' on Feb. 11, 2005. Credit - Ron Wolfson/WireImage—Getty Images In describing the followup to Pet Sounds, Wilson billed Smile as a "teenage ...

It's been nearly six decades, but a 1966 Beach Boys classic still defines what a perfect song sounds like. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was hailed as one of the 25 essential Brian Wilson songs of all time by ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

Brian Wilson, a two-time Grammy Award winner and steward of ecstatic, sobering pop music, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Immediately, every social media feed imaginable flooded with anecdotes, ...

Though Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson never shared a co-writing credit on any Beach Boys songs, brother Carl did write several songs with their older brother. “Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” ...

Wilson wrote a substantial portion of The Beach Boys' songs, including many of the band's biggest hits. By Ed Christman Brian Wilson’s death on June 11 led to a resurgence of popularity for The Beach ...

The Beach Boys loom so large in our shared cultural imagination that it’s surprising to remember that the group only appeared in a single feature motion picture. Yes, the “beach party” movies of the ...

Fans of the Beach Boys are in mourning following Wednesday’s news that former band leader Brian Wilson has died. He was 82. The visionary musician helped pen some of the group’s most beloved hits, ...