If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering ...

Following the death of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson at age 82 on June 11, the group's catalog surged 184% in equivalent album ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' creative force, passed away on June 11th at 82. Wilson's music, particularly the album *Pet ...

How the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ Entered the Pop Music Pantheon. (Eventually.) Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music.

Brian Wilson brought some unseasonable warmth in what turned out to be his first and only Gulf concert, at Dubai Tennis Stadium in 2016. A near-capacity audience, a mixture of diehard Beach Boys fans, ...

After hearing this one album, Brian Wilson went right to his piano and began making Pet Sounds, being moved by the boldness of another key record.

With “Pet Sounds,” you’ve got one sound effect — at the very end of the album. But it is a lot of fun to it when it comes, finally, with the sound of the train and the dog.

The Beach Boys founding member will play classic hits, rarities and deep cuts as a tribute to the late Brian Wilson Aug. 22.

I have ALWAYS loved Pet Sounds from the first time I heard it. It holds up and for the last 20 years "Wouldn't It Be Nice" has been the song I play on my birthday, for a variety of personal reasons.

While “Pet Sounds” doesn’t alienate the common listener, it’s incredibly complex, which made many of Wilson’s fellow Beach Boys wary of its ability to commercially perform. Of course, it’s impossible ...

The Beach Boys‘ album Pet Sounds features songs like “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” and “That’s Not Me” — most of which were written by Brian Wilson.It was also the ...

Its rich instrumentation, beautiful songwriting and immaculate production would inspire the decade’s other forward-thinking hit-makers, The Beatles, to push the envelope even further, concocting ...