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 ...

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 ...

In the choppy musical seas–where teen pop and hip hop rule the (air) waves–Matthew Sweet’s elaborately produced homage to ’60s pop, In Reverse, scarcely made a ripple last year. But it’s a gem, an ...

The Beach Boys released their album 'Pet Sounds,' with most songs arranged by Brian Wilson. Here's what we know about the 1966 release. Some know them for songs like “Help Me Ronda,” “Surfin’ USA,” ...

The Beach Boys appeared in Full House and had “California Dreamin’” featured in Stranger Things. This band intended for one song to appear in a James Bond film, even if the details surrounding the Pet ...

“When you listen to Pet Sounds, use earphones in the dark. If you listen in the light, you look around and see things … but in the dark you can hear it all,” says Brian Wilson. Pet Sounds, the Beach ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

Animal Collective may be one of the most critically hailed bands of the moment, yet also one of the most derided. While generally respectable sources like The New York Times and Pitchfork have fallen ...

Warner Music, Germany's Sonopress — a manufacturer of records, CDs and Blu-ray discs — and SK Chemicals are rethinking the record, from material to production. The EcoRecord, unveiled by the companies ...