Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session ...

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Darian Sahanaja, a crucial part of Brian Wilson's band since 1999, shares his thoughts about the late Beach Boy's brilliant ...

The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should ...

Despite singing about surfing and being endlessly labelled as a surf band, the Beach Boys didn't actually sound anything like ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define ...

If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect ...

If Wilson must be known for one thing, let it be his inimitable sense of harmony, perfected across his craft and completely ...

Brian Wilson, the prodigious visionary engine behind the Beach Boys, composer of “teenage symphonies to God,” the big, gentle, sweet-voiced soul whose music touched generations, has died at 82. It’s a ...

Two "Pet Sounds" highlights, the former featuring envelope-pushing instrumentation and production and the latter, a deceptively complex harmonic structure as well as lyrics that were, at that point, ...