Going to concerts at Royce Hall always feels like going to a football game: you park in a random UCLA lot, then walk half a mile across campus in the hopes of seeing a winner. [Open article]
Forty years ago, Jack Nicholson and a bunch of dudes who would go on to do Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces [Open article] co-wrote their first avant-garde, marijuana-laced cinematic masterpiece.
An Invitation, by Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, is a truly welcoming and rewarding album. [Open article]
The Inara George/Van Dyke Parks partnership on An Invitation [Open article] is a wonderful symbiosis, an amphibian that treads through two almost opposing elements, one stark and timid, the other well-crafted and delicate, though I’m not always sure which is which.
