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

Topix — There are many ways to connect the dots between the acts on this marquee. For example: The Beatles' Apple Records released Taylor's solo debut, Taylor played banjo on Neil Young's "Old Man," and Young's Buffalo Springfield was co-billed with Simon & ... more info

Guardian Music — Rain Phoenix was raised by hippies and, like her brothers River and Joaquin, has made a career in film and music. She talks about their unusual childhoodNot many people can say they were out busking on the streets at the age of three. Or that they go... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Déjà Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released in March of 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200. It topped the pop album chart ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The DePaulia profiles Dawes. Championed as the next band with the "Laurel Canyon Sound" famously attributed to bands like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Byrds, and The Eagles, it has proven tough for the band to break out of... more info