When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martin and the Fab Four weren’t the only ones whose minds were blown in summer of 1966 by the ...

Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys cofounder and massively influential musical figure, died at age 82, his family announced on June 11, 2025, according to USA TODAY. The songwriter behind many of the band’s ...

If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect of the Beach Boys, he bottled the vibes of Southern California — and really ...

Pop music innovator Brian Wilson is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys’ groundbreaking 1966 album Pet Sounds with an extensive North American tour. That outing will make its way to New ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

“When you listen to Pet Sounds, use earphones in the dark. If you listen in the light, you look around and see things … but in the dark you can hear it all,” says Brian Wilson. Pet Sounds, the Beach ...

May 16 -- Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of what many consider to be the greatest album of all time: Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. It was a landmark album in so many ways. For the ...

Pet Sounds didn’t just raise the bar; it built a whole new stage. Around that time, Brian Wilson also dropped Good Vibrations, a song that took months to piece together and used sounds, from theremins ...

The Jake and Spike Show, weekdays from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Fan-favorite member of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Jake ...

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 ...