Greg Schwepe: I’ve long known that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is a holy grail album for many artists and fans, one that is always talked about, mentioned as an influence, and ends up on many ...

The Beach Boys’ hit album Pet Sounds was first released in 1966, and there’s something about the prog-pop record that is so beloved by fans and casual listeners today. There’s no doubt that ...

It was greeted with some confusion by fans and even members of the band, but the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album has attained more reverence and legend as the years move along. It is today ...

On the Billboard 200, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, released in 2003, jumps 180-52 (15,500 units; up 71%) and Pet Sounds reenters at No. 136 (11,000; up 1,335%). For the ...

This piece was originally published on June 16, 2016 Fifty years ago, the Beach Boys released the milestone album Pet Sounds, a collection of groundbreaking songs that redefined what pop music could ...

What a sunny day for the fellas at Split Record Review to cover the Beach Boys’ magnum opus. The claim that they’re the goats of music is solidified by their 1966 album, “Pet Sounds.” Many writers in ...

On the cusp of their artistic peak, The Beach Boys had crafted a number which threatened to wind up both the religious right and countercultural underground.

S ir Paul McCartney once revealed that Brian Wilson's efforts in creating The Beach Boys' progressive and complex 1966 album Pet Sounds were a massive influence on one of The Beatles' best albums ...

The song, co-penned with Jardine’s longtime collaborator Larry Dvoskin (Sammy Hagar, Bad Company), evokes the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds era, with its reflective ache for an innocence lost ...

The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds opener, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” is about as quintessentially Brian Wilson as it gets. With nostalgic lyrics about young love longing for “grown-up ...

SHEBOYGAN – Al Jardine, a founding member of The Beach Boys, will perform the iconic songs of The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson’s touring band, The Pet Sounds Band, at the Weill Center this August.

But “Pet Sounds” sold relatively poorly when it came out, and an internecine struggle had begun within the Beach Boys, one that would prove disastrous for all concerned.