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 ...

Sir Paul McCartney once revealed that Brian Wilson's efforts in creating The Beach Boys' progressive and complex 1966 album Pet Sounds were a massive influence on one of The Beatles' best albums. A co ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. But that was then. Today, Pet Sounds is regarded not only as the equal of those records but, in ...

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 ...

MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: a true genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.