Brian Wilson sang of a sun-drenched, carefree world that stood in striking contrast to his tormented inner life. In songs ...

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 ...

The 2015 dramatization of his life, Love & Mercy, directed by Bill Pohlad and starring Paul Dano and John Cusack as Wilson in ...

A standout track from The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, it epitomised Wilson’s shift into complex, sophisticated compositions ...

Most rock stars have peaks and valleys in their career, but some artists have the true talent to make anything they play ...

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.

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

Kyle Mooney spent nine years at “Saturday Night Live,” but he was never one of the show’s big stars. That may be because he ...

Today in Music History for June 20: ...

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” ...