Archive - The Raymond Chandler Project

The Show Must Go On

Circus Royal Spectacular in Watsonville, April 19, 2024

Published on Bring Me Giants • Apr 21

Bruce Springsteen at the Pechanga Arena, March 25, 2024

Published on Bring Me Giants • Apr 15

Where the wind goes

Ain't that America?

Apr 15 •

May 2023

Whistle down the wind

Are you there God? It's me, Cat Stevens.

May 1, 2023 •

February 2023

Between Two Liars

by Chat GPT (as told to Geoff Stahl)

Feb 14, 2023

February 2022

Did you hear the distant cry?

Mark Lanegan, RIP. Lately I have been thinking that I don’t want to write about music anymore. In part this is because I don’t want to be someone who’s…

Feb 23, 2022 •

December 2021

Mixtape the Movie: A defense.

by Gina Arnold My next book project is an anthology about independent record stores and the dear place they hold in our collective memory. I truly…

Dec 8, 2021 •

November 2021

Nobody’s Army: Lessons from the Astroworld

by Gina Arnold When I was young, I went to rock festivals…a lot of rock festivals. In fact, outside of the people who work rock festivals, such as…

Nov 23, 2021 •

Songs of Innocence & Experience: James Taylor at the Chase Center, Oct. 29, 2021.

The other night I went to see James Taylor. How embarrassing, right? It’s not exactly something you brag about on Facebook, and as for sharing pictures…

Nov 3, 2021 •

September 2021

To Lose And To Pretend: Nirvana’s Nevermind at 30

This morning I found out that Courtney Love dropped my name in a recent interview with the L.A. Times in an article about the 30th anniversary of the…

Sep 27, 2021 •

The World Set Free: BTS at the United Nations, 9/20/2021

Yesterday in advance of the opening session of the General Assembly, the United Nations allowed the Korean pop group BTS to both speak and perform from…

Sep 21, 2021 •

August 2021

A Spring Clean For the May Queen

From the top of the hill behind my cousin’s farm in Dorset, you can just see Glastonbury Tor. On a very clear day a few weeks ago whilst waiting out my…

Aug 13, 2021 •

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