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 ...

Listening to Brian Wilson's music was like growing up with him. Beginning with songs about teenage kicks like surfing, driving, and chasing girls, he matured into thoughtful and introspective ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased. By Bob Mehr See more of our coverage in your search ...

But if you asked the legendary Beach Boys mastermind himself to name one of the proudest achievements of his career, his ...

Decades after its release, the Beach Boys legend’s 1963 tune remains an unmatched fan favorite.

In a few short hours, Al Jardine will take the stage with longtime friend and bandmate Brian Wilson for opening night of the Something Great From '68 Tour in Las Vegas. For now, though, he's sharing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Brian Wilson didn’t create the sun or the ocean or the sea-sprayed landmass we call Southern California. He didn’t invent the car or the surfboard. He wasn’t the first person to experience the cold ...

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, ...

These New York twenty-somethings make music indebted to Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren and the Fab Four. But do The Lemon Twigs get sick of the comparisons?