Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd begins with the Grants, a tribute to Lana Del Rey’s Lake Placid family name. In the March issue of Interview Mag she is wearing a loose fitting doily patterned wedding gown with an unlit cigarette dangling from the side of her lips. The conversation with Billie Eilish begins with Lana: “How’s it going, sweet girl?” “Lana, dude. Thank you for thinking of me. I am absolutely stoked out of my f-ing mind.”

Born Elizabeth Grant and raised ... read more

“Anytime we’d have smoke or drink sessions, it was a flow session. We started to learn each other’s verses and the other four would just ad lib… people thought we sounded like some old doo-wop group, but we were rapping,” said Krayzie Bone in a 2017 Thrasher Magazine interview. Krayzie along with the other Bone Bros - Layzie, Bizzy, Wish, and Flesh hit the top of the charts in 1993 when they signed with Eazy E’s Ruthless Records. Originally from Cleveland, ... read more

The Legend of the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto premiered in 1959 at the Lyceum Theatre in Shanghai conducted by Fan Chengwu with solos by Yu Lina. This show was a 10th anniversary celebration of the founding of the PR of China. The 25 minute performance is broken into seven sections starting with adagio cantabile and allegro and ending with presto resoluto and adagio cantabile. The ensemble includes flutes, clarinets, violins, bassoons, trumpets, harps, cymbals and more. The BLV concerto ... read more

“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky,” warbles a moody Eddie Vedder in 1991. Pearl Jam’s Ten made waves at the dawn of the 90s. After the death of vocalist Andrew Wood, Seattle based Mother Love Bone was dissolved and Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead guitar) recruited San Diegan Eddie Vedder and Dave Krusen (drums) to form Pearl Jam. In his formative years Vedder ... read more

Modal Mood, Ernie’s Tune, and Clear the Dex are tracks on Dexter Calling, a Blue Note record, made in New York by Angelino born Dexter Gordon. A student at Jefferson High, tenor saxist Gordon admired Mississippi horn blower Lester Young. Gordo joined Lionel Hampton and Billy Eckstine’s bands during the war years. In the 50s Gordon got hooked on heroin and served prison time at Chino in San Bernardino. Gordon moved to France in the sixties and lived there for 14 years and collabed ... read more

Ronald Crosby, born in Oneonta New York, changed his name to Jerry Jeff Walker in the 60s when he became a songwriter. After dropping out of the National Guard, he wandered through Florida and Texas, settling in Austin. He made records for MCA and Elektra before forming an independent label, Tried & True. Ridin’ High (75) is an MCA recording and contains his lesser known songs like a Coat from the Cold and Goodbye Easy Street. Walker’s most notable recordings, Up Against the ... read more