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 everyone in my high school was talking about.

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 there were plenty of those,

Brian Wilson, whose death was announced on June 11, 2025, had seven children, including Wilson Phillips singers Carnie and Wendy Wilson. Here’s everything to know about Brian Wilson’s seven children.

Sometimes life gives you the extraordinary privilege of inhabiting someone else's genius, and for John Cusack, that someone was Brian Wilson. As news of Wilson's passing at 82 reverberates through the music world,

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82. Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.