Badly Drawn Boy has shared a story of how The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ once led to him making a track with The Fall’s Mark E.

James Marriott takes an early lead in the race for this week’s Official Number 1 album with Don’t Tell The Dog.

Paul McCartney has described God Only Knows, the album's centrepiece, as the greatest song ever written (it was interesting that his daughter, Stella, should have chosen it as one of her Desert Island ...

The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should ...

From his brutal childhood - beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear - to his decades of paranoid, ...

Despite singing about surfing and being endlessly labelled as a surf band, the Beach Boys didn't actually sound anything like ...

The Beach Boys were probably the last group on earth expected to start a musical revolution. After all, they had built their renown as clean-living all-American kids delivering harmonized hymns ...

If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect ...

In this delightful video, join us as we explore the curious reactions of my cat when exposed to various cat and dog sounds on the computer. Watch how these sounds capture its attention, stir curiosity ...

Research reveals that animals do respond to music—but not always in the way humans do. Explore how species-specific sounds ...

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