Van Dyke Parks
The Beach Boys' 20 best songs not on 'Pet Sounds' or 'Smile'
The Beach Boys achieved pop perfection on their classic album ‘Pet Sounds’ and its ill-fated-but-eventually-completed followup ‘Smile,’ and though those are their only two 10/10 albums, they wrote brilliant songs several other times throughout their career…
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! free 2019 Prospect Park shows: Tortoise, Calexico & Iron & Wine, Liz Phair/Ted Leo, more
Tortoise are playing ‘TNT’ in full, and other shows include Mick Jenkins/Leikeli47, Oddisee, Nilufer Yanya (with a surprise headliner), I’m With Her, and more…
Bill's Indie Basement (4/5): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: review of LPs by The Drums, Priests, Lawrence Arabia, Patio, Shana Cleveland (La Luz), Rose Elinor Dougall, and more.
Carole King, Paul McCartney, Missy Elliott & more pay tribute to Aretha Franklin
We lost one of the all-time great voices in music today and the world has been paying tribute to Aretha Franklin since learning the sad news…
Van Dyke Parks cancels MHOW appearance; Philip Glass still playing, w/ Sondre Lerche, Bryce Dessner & more added to bill
Sondre Lerche @ MHOW, 2011 (more by Dana Yavin)
Bad news: due to a hand injury, Van Dyke Parks will not be performing at the Henry Miller Library / Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge concert this Sunday (5/19) at Music Hall of Williamsburg…
Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge festival is coming (Philip Glass, Van Dyke Parks, comedy, readings, short films & more)
The Henry Miller Memorial Library has done concerts in Big Sur, CA for years, and they’re now bringing the celebration over to NYC for Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge, a weeklong festival which goes down from May 12 – 19 in Williamsburg in multiple locati…
Grizzly Bear made a video for "gun-shy," curating ATP UK with Yeah Yeah Yeahs (line-up)
Grizzly Bear at Terminal 5 in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Grizzly Bear are still producing singles off of 2012’s great Shields, and they’ve just made a video for “gun-shy,” which was directed…
Kinky Friedman is on tour w/ Little Jewford & Washington Ratso (Highline Ballroom tonight)
“Kinky Friedman, author, musician, politician, beautician, and self-proclaimed Governor Of the Heart Of Texas, will be performing dates throughout the midwest and east coast, as part of his Springtime For Kinky Tour of 2011…
Van Dyke Parks & Clare & the Reasons played the Bell House (pics)
DOWNLOAD: Clare & the Reasons w/ Van Dyke Parks – “He Needs Me” (Harry Nilsson cover) (MP3)
…remarkably, until now Parks had never toured…
Van Dyke Parks & Clare & the Reasons playing Brooklyn (and other shows)
Van Dyke Parks – legendary collaborator, producer and songwriter – has already been noted as on the schedule for Pop Montreal, which runs September 29th-October 3rd and also includes Swans…
