Guardian Music — Three quarters of CSNY are long out of fashion. Don't let that spoil a song that might as well be about your homeGraham Nash apparently sat down at the piano and wrote Our House in just an hour, capturing an unguarded moment of domestic bliss with Jo... more info

Guardian Music — (Agitated)Ethan Miller found cult adoration in the mid-00s with scorching psych-rockers Comets on Fire. When they went on hiatus in 2008, his No 2 band Howlin' Rain took over, starting out as a kind of cosmic Creedence before moving toward big, glo... more info

Detroit Free Press — One of the new crop of bands heavily influenced by roots, folk and Americana music, Dawes has a melodic, harmony-filled sound that's more than a little reminiscent of vintage Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, James Taylor and the Band. The Los Angel... more info

411 Mania — Half of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young performs and unamplified set.... more info

Guardian Music — The focus of Gimme Shelter is, of course, the Altamont concert, but what have lingered with me are the film's smaller, closer sadnessesIt had been a while since I had seen Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary directed by Albert and David Maysles and C... more info

Guardian Music — Beneath the cliched references to the dole queue lurks a sad and funny single from the punk pioneersAlternative TV were one of the groups that sprang up like mushrooms in the wake of Sex Pistols. But unlike so many of the bands inspired by 1976, they... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Highlights of the Bridge School Benefit Concerts will be released on October 24th on Reprise celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the event that was founded by Neil Young. Most of the tracks are previously unreleased. The Brian Wilson led all-star r... more info

Guardian Music — A study of 1970, filtered through the music of the timeWe live in turbulent times, our distrust of institutions seemingly at a peak. Yet between January 1969 and the spring of 1970, according to the author of Fire and Rain, borrowing figures quoted ... more info

Guardian Music — Founder member of the chart-topping 1970s band AmericaThe songwriting ability and vocal harmonies of the bassist Dan Peek, who has died aged 60, were an integral part of the success of the soft-rock band America. Between 1971 and 1977, the year he qu... more info

Guardian Music — The Slaughtered Lamb, LondonCanyon in the Rain. Ballad of the Pines. Valley of the Silver Moon. Dappling country twanglers full of "divine lakes" where "the beaver still chops the pine". The music of North Carolina folkie Jonathan Wilson paints such ... more info