Despite Brian Wilson having his own musical gems, he felt that some of the best in the world were made made years before he ...

"Caroline, No," was the final song on the Beach Boys ' watershed LP, Pet Sounds. Released as Wilson’s first solo single, the ...

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 ...

Brian Wilson's career had plummeted to dark depths come 1991, but luckily, the music helped pull him out of it.

In this archive piece from Uncut's October 2006 issue [Take 113], we spoke to Brian Wilson just as Pet Sounds celebrated its 40th anniversary. Along the way, Wilson also agreed to revisit five other ...

Between 1964 and 1965, Glen Campbell became a temporary member of the Beach Boys, touring with the group for several months ...

The summer anthem started as a piano riff inspired by an old Western movie scene.

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

Though Brian Wilson was one of pop’s most studied artists, he largely remained an enigma. The Beach Boys leader, whose death at 82 was announced June 11, made music for the masses with an artisan’s ...

The Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds is a source of awe for many musicians, including Henley. Wilson recalled a time when they were backstage at the same event and Henley approached him with the ...

Fans keep coming back to a 1963 Brian Wilson song that many consider the peak of his early genius. In 2025, "In My Room" was ...