JANUARY 18, 2021. Today in a luminous holiday of poetry and joy, it is the birthday of the legendary poet-songwriter-painter-visionary-friend-spiritual advisor-pacifist- mensch Stephen Kalinich. He’s ...

Like many people, my introduction to Stephen’s work was the Beach Boys’ Friends album. Stephen wrote the lyrics to two of the first songs Dennis ever wrote on a Beach Boys record, and they’re also ...

One of the best things about being part of the songwriting community of Los Angeles is this guy. Stephen Kalinich – aka Stevie to his close friends. Those close friends include most of the luminaries ...

Stephen John Kalinich wrote a poem in the late ’60s called “Be Still” that was set to music by his friend Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. It was intended for a spoken-word album of Kalinich’s that ...

Queen guitarist Brian May features on a new song by Stephen Kalinich and Jon Tiven ‘Rude Awakening’. The song is featured on the new album ‘Each Soul Has A Voice’, released this week in the USA. Over ...

Stephen Kalinich's A World of Peace Must Come is a spoken word curio produced by Beach Boy Brian Wilson in 1969. First released on CD six years ago, it flew under the radar, but later this month, ...

Stephen Kalinich and Jon Tiven are among the most creative and innovative musical duos to come down the pike in many a moon. If one disc of their new two CD package doesn't prove it to you, the other ...

“The songs that he wrote with The Beach Boys, musically and lyrically, they always stood out to me,” says D’Addario. “They’re all about finding something sweet within and manifesting it. He has a ...

Art A Concert of Protest Songs at LA Louver On Wednesday, August 23, poet, songwriter, and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen Kalinich will read his own poetry and perform with the Los Angeles-based ...