Did The Beach Boys secretly help shape Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Allegedly, their harmonies and studio magic paved the way.

A band in a slump, a demo song nobody wanted, and a new bass player with no experience as an arranger. The result: one of the ...

Nearly sixty years after Neil Young released Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music ...

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

Bob Dylan once said that Joan Baez was the real driving force of the Greenwich Village folk scene, but her own first hero was ...

These hugely underrated bands from the 1960s have gotten some love after their heyday passed, but I can't help but think they deserved more.

He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music. By Jim Farber David Crosby, the ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

When three young men left Gonzaga University in 1959 to go sing folk music in New York City, they had no idea of the lives that would follow. They certainly had no idea that one day a book would be ...