Let’s hope Brian Wilson changes his mind again. I was there for the 2007 retirement party for “Pet Sounds” at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, when the Beach Boys legend performed the classic album ...

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 ...

If the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album was such a masterpiece, why did they end up being depicted on its cover cavorting with a bunch of goats? Band member Al Jardine provides the answer in a ...

May 16 -- Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of what many consider to be the greatest album of all time: Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. It was a landmark album in so many ways. For the ...

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 ...

God only knows what fans would do without this Beach Boys album. The surf rock group premiered Pet Sounds in 1966. Several songs from this collection were written and mixed by Brian Wilson. On Spotify ...

Brian Wilson is one of pop music's original mad geniuses. In the 1960s, he pushed the boundaries of what a band could accomplish in the recording studio, even as he pushed himself almost to the point ...

Following up "Pet Sounds." A daunting prospect, don't you think? Surely it helped contribute to Brian Wilson's anxieties back in 1966. The next music project for Wilson and The Beach Boys was "Smile," ...

To say that Brian Wilson seems uncomfortable or ill-at-ease on stage would be a massive understatement. He sits motionless behind a rarely played piano, blankly staring off into the distance and ...

Fifty years after it was released, Brian Wilson performed the landmark Beach Boys album Pet Sounds at McCarren Park in Brooklyn, New York, as a part of the Northside Festival. The following is a ...

“Catch A Wave” is very much in the style of the band’s early surf rock material, but it’s one where you can already see the gears turning in Brian’s mind to go beyond standard rock and roll chord ...