Pet Sounds includes … pet sounds. The song “Caroline, No” features barking dogs near the end of the track. The use of animal noises in the album was one of Brian Wilson’s most innovative moves. To ...

Brian Wilson might not sound super excited — see our interview below — about discussing “Pet Sounds,” the Beach Boys album he masterminded as producer, composer and co-lead vocalist, but the living ...

The Beach Boys and the Beatles were rivals, though it was a friendly competition. They shared the same U.S. record label, where the Beach Boys had been the top pop act until the Beatles arrived in ...

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 ...

DETROIT — There’s a certain weightiness to declaring a musical album ‘the greatest of all time,’ free of qualifiers like ‘one of’ or ‘perhaps.’ Those are fighting words, to be sure, but the Beach Boys ...