Two hours late for sound check, the members of Beachwood Sparks amble in through the back door of Athens, Ga., bar Tasty World, clad in worn-out T-shirts and blue jeans, each carrying his own ...

Psychedelic alt-country vets Beachwood Sparks are back and have announced Across The River Of Stars, their first album in 12 years, which will be out July 19 via Curation Records. Original members ...

Los Angeles guitarist Josh Schwartz, most well-known for his work with Beachwood Sparks and Further in the late 1990s, has passed away at the age of 45. Schwartz was diagnosed with ALS in 2011; in ...

Like some celestial meteor barreling through earth’s atmosphere, Beachwood Sparks has—under the pressure and intense heat of large-scale touring and swelling expectations—fragmented into several ...

Some blog-like entity called Losanjealous recently wet its panties over this Beachwood Sparks reunion. In fact, they announced it as the big event of Sub Pop’s 20th-anniversary shindig. Of course, ...

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every piece of music needs to be important; that it must impart something meaningful, reinvent, redefine or otherwise aspire to greatness. Next to the ...

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Beachwood Sparks may have disappeared for more than a decade between albums, but the band's sweet psychedelic county still sounds vital. We first heard the gorgeous "Forget The Song" back in April, ...

Back when Gram Parsons split from the Byrds and formed the Flying Burrito Brothers, no one could have predicted that, in one simple act, a musical revolution would have its Che Guevara. Lately, ...

Do you dig late-period Byrds? This Negress does, and so, when L.A.’s Beachwood Sparks emerged wide circa 1999, their fusion of psych, folk, and bluegrass seemed decades out of phase—and also ...