Brian Wilson's "smart Girls" was supposed to be the centerpiece and/or big closing number of his Sire Records album "Sweet Insanity." Instead it was one of the big reasons the album was shelved.

"After the tour fell apart, it became more about a missed opportunity for Brian and [the Beach Boys] to ride into the sunset ...

It's not often that Paul McCartney dares to call a song his favorite. He always has a hard time choosing, even among his own songs. But when it comes to this one Beach Boys song, he has a soft spot.

I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American Graffiti,” the movie ...

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 ...

MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: a true genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.

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 ...

After a major career shift, The Beach Boys released Johnny Carson, a misstep many still rank as the band’s worst song ever.

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, ...