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

Guardian Music — 11 March 1970: Number xx in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThe formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash is headily serendipitous stuff: proof that a supposed musician's nirvana existed in Laurel Canyon, California. Errant Byr... more info

Guardian Music — Hammersmith Apollo, LondonAmong the plaudits rained down on Fleet Foxes in recent years, "electifying live performers" seldom figures heavily. There are many things that are immensely cheering about their rise to mainstream fame – and in tonight's ... more info

VH1 Blog — Jimmy Fallon reprised his Neil Young impression yesterday for a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon performance of Miley Cyrus‘s “Party in the U.S.A.” “Mr. Young” recruited CSNY bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash to assist him for what would h... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Hello harmonies, our old friend. Hello, finger-picked guitar, we’ve come for you again. On its second album of dew-dappled cabin folk, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes tips its wool cap to Simon & Garfunkel, CSNY and other progenitors of the soaring intertw... more info

Guardian Music — Fibbers, YorkMumford & Sons' enormous success may mean a wave of bands like Kassidy. They're vaguely folkie, vaguely hippy and – newly chopped blonde singer-guitarist Hamish Fingland aside – have enough hair between them to stuff the pillows of a... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Sore Losers (Hasselt, Belgium) melted their love for rock, country, blues, folk and garage into a sound very much their own. Rumour has it comparisons with The Raconteurs, The Rolling Stones, Reigning Sound and more fascinating folks are plent... more info

Guardian Music — (Bella Union)As is tradition, the blues kick in at first light. "I woke up one morning," begins Robin Pecknold, four tracks into Fleet Foxes's second album, Helplessness Blues. But instead of finding his baby gone, as bluesmen tend to, on "Battery Ki... more info