The Byrds are on the shortlist of great American bands. Between 1965 and 1973, the L.A.-based group released 12 albums — including classics like Mr. Tambourine Man, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, and ...

When The Byrds released "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968, it was a commercial failure. A half century after its debut, the album has become a... How The Byrds' 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo' Became A ...

Somehow it doesn’t matter that these two bands have gone through enough internal and external hassles to cover the New York Metropolitan Opera for the next ten years. They just keep producing wave ...

Byrds co-founder and ace musician Chris Hillman is on the verge of releasing “Bidin’ My Time,” a new album he’s recorded with Tom Petty co-producing, but at his home office and study in Ventura this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. There is an old music joke I point out to the Byrds’ Chris Hillman. It’s about how ...

Christian Parker's Change Is Now is as laudable in its own way as its predecessor, a combination reimagining and expansion of Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia, 1968), the Byrds' first full-length ...

Much of the attention to the Byrds historically has gone to lead guitarist Roger McGuinn for his key role in the group’s distinctive sound. After McGuinn, the spotlight often landed on fellow members ...

Jakob Dylan is featured prominently in "Echo in the Canyon," a new documentary that chronicles Los Angeles' influential Laurel Canyon folk scene in the mid-1960s, which gave birth to the Byrds, the ...