Van Dyke Parks

Blogs
December 26, 2012
6 Ancient Classic Rockers You Didn't Know Put Out Music In 2012
We live in an era of classic-rock revivalism. We go crazy for reunions, we buy as many tickets as we can, and sometimes we even pay attention to the new records these bands put out, even though the general consensus is that no reunited band will ever put out a record as good as the ones they did in ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2010
Lonesome Onry and Mean: Songwriting Scholar Steve Young Blasts Nashville's "Yuppa-billys"
For Lonesome, Onry and Mean, they don't come much taller or wiser than Steve Young. Young has been in a love/hate relationship with Nashville and the major labels since he came to town in the early Seventies. Along with Billy Joe Shaver, Young wrote the major anthems of the Outlaw movement that tip ... More >>
Music
October 15, 2009
Steve Young
Music
November 9, 2006
Joanna Newsom
Ys
Music
February 23, 2006
Misery Loves Company
Four great songwriters join forces to ratchet up the emotional torque
Music
December 8, 2005
Overlooked in '05
Ten great discs that were underserved by the media but are more than worthy
Music
October 27, 2005
Super Furry Animals
Love Kraft
Music
October 21, 2004
Half Smile
Brian Wilson's long-delayed magnum opus fails to topple Pet Sounds from its pedestal
Music
October 14, 2004
Playbill
Music
March 11, 2004
Strings Attached
Operatic popster Rufus Wainwright exits "gay hell" and enters his most fertile period
Music
October 26, 2000
Desert Rose
Victoria Williams, a native of swampy Louisiana, finds her muse in the dry beauty of Southern California
Music
July 20, 2000
Shored Up
Brian Wilson returns from hell to inhabit a self he hasn't seen since the '60s
Music
November 5, 1998
Ladies Luck
Five Barenaked Canadians conquer a fickle America with patience
Music
July 23, 1998
Reconstructing Brian
The troubled creative light behind the Beach Boys salvages himself and -- to an extent -- his music
Music
March 5, 1998
Rotation
Music
February 20, 1997
Odd Man Out
Van Dyke Parks, the invisible legend of L.A. music, finally goes live