"Til I Die" stands as a hauntingly honest reflection of Brian Wilson’s inner struggles, capturing his feelings of ...

The five best Brian Wilson songs? No problem. Off the top of my head, I’m sure I could come up with about ten. If need be, I’ll consult his discography to refresh my memory and maybe add a few more to ...

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 ...

When one learns of a genius musician, it’s hard not to research everything one can about that artist’s process. This is especially the case if you’re a musician yourself. I’ve spent quite a bit of ...

I made Brian Wilson sad once. I didn’t mean to. We were doing a radio interview, the first time I’d ever spoken to him, and I was so excited that I’d spent the entire morning organizing nearly every ...

Some of the best of the best in the 1960s were Brian Wilson and John Lennon, and Wilson respected Lennon's talent, ...

Composer, bass player, singer and Beach Boy Brian Wilson drew deep on American traditions. “Brian Wilson was an incredibly important musical figure,” said Jack Hamilton, a professor of Media Studies ...

The whole world sees the California Dream to the soundtrack of Beach Boys songs. “If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ ...

Brian Wilson, a two-time Grammy Award winner and steward of ecstatic, sobering pop music, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Immediately, every social media feed imaginable flooded with anecdotes, ...