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 ...

Take a popular composer such as George Gershwin, the man behind "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." Then put his works through the psychedelic blender of Beach Boys surf music, courtesy 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 ...

When music icons Elvis Presley and Brian Wilson met, a surprising discord ensued that left the King of Rock 'n' Roll upset ...