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 ...

Even back in the 1960s, it became obvious that the late great Brian Wilson was more than just great, but a musical genius on a scale with a rare few - any time, any music. He was one of those musical ...

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson performs "Pet Sounds" at the Morris Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in South Bend. Brian Wilson, who died June 11 at 82, made music history as a Beach ...

Brian Wilson was among the most talented musicians of the 20th century, but in 1963 he was deemed not good enough to play on ...

On a warm summer night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles last month, Brian Wilson -- backed by a band that included fellow former Beach Boy Al Jardine -- was running through his repertoire of ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian Wilson is widely hailed as one of the most significant songwriters of the 20th century—the master craftsman behind The Beach Boys' music. Inspired by rock 'n' roll, doo-wop, George Gershwin, ...