As with most Beach Boys dates, Wilson handed out his charts and played the song at the piano to give the musicians an idea of ...

We explore the fascinating insights into arranging bass guitar parts the Beach Boys' 1966 track "Wouldn't It Be Nice" offers.

The Beach Boys spearheaded a studio recording movement with their album 'Pet Sounds'. But Brian Wilson credits a later album ...

Brian Wilson might not have always got things right when he was in the Beach Boys, but the band were arguably worse off when left to their own devices.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa's resident live music freak. He started freelancing with the paper in 2020 at the age of 18, and has since covered, announced, and previewed numerous live shows ...

And, while Pet Sounds is considered the end of the Beach Boys’ surfer boy posturing, the album’s chaos and baroque, high-vis pastiches of pop innovation sounded like big, alien fragments of ...

“I liked that twist, and fought to start the song that way,” said Asher in Charles Granata’s 2003 book, Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.

Released in the wake of “Pet Sounds,” the haunting and revolutionary “Surf’s Up” showcases a radically different Beach Boys than the one America fell in love with. Classic Rock History says how the ...

Before The Beatles truly blossomed, The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” represented one of the most seismic shifts in the rapidly evolving landscape of popular music during the latter half of the ’60s. Brian ...

The Batman‘s Riddler, Paul Dano, delicate and intense, is Wilson in the era of Pet Sounds, the 1966 album that cemented his legacy as a genius. John Cusack, heavy-footed and doleful, is Wilson ...