He had a reason for not being a fan of this track from 'Pet Sounds' ...

Wilson battled depression and mental illness for years. It wasn't until 1988 that Wilson relaunched a solo career with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, nearly fifty years after it was recorded, Adult/Child gets its first official release. It’s part of We Gotta Groove: The ...

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 ...

Though Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson never shared a co-writing credit on any Beach Boys songs, brother Carl did write several songs with their older brother. “Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” ...