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 ...

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 ...

“He captured the mystique and magic of California, carrying it around the world and across generations,” California Governor Gavin Newsom stated in honouring Brian Wilson when he died on June 11, 2025 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief. Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price ...