The first time I heard Neutral Milk Hotel, I was driving back from my friend’s home…
“I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there’s something in us that is beyond the…
In the winter of 1981, I responded to a back page ad in Flipside, an independent zine covering the Los…
October 2022 will mark the 19-year anniversary of singer/songwriter Elliott Smith’s…
In the summer of 1992, a 26-year old aspiring musician was house sitting at a friend’s apartment in Brooklyn…
In 1984, I worked on a low-budget independent film in New Zealand called Shaker Run. As a production assistant, I…
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” Tom Waits is a street poet…
The first time I heard a Lou Reed song I was 18 and floating down the Chattahoochee River in a canoe. A shirtless…
Gary Calamar is a Los Angeles-based music supervisor and radio DJ. He hosted a Sunday night show on KCRW…
Thom Yorke does not like celebrity culture. When Jack Black and Miley Cyrus expressed a desire…
