Beachwood Sparks

Beachwood Sparks Guitarist Josh Schwartz Dead at 45

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2017

Former Beachwood Sparks guitarist Josh Schwartz has passed away, following a battle with ALS. He was 45 years old.   Schwartz initially joi...

Beachwood Sparks to Issue Unreleased Album 'Desert Skies'

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2013

Last year, psych-country vets Beachwood Sparks released The Tarnished Gold, their first album in over a decade. Now that they're back in th...

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'The Tarnished Gold' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2012

It's been more than a decade since Beachwood Sparks released their last full-length album, Once We Were Trees, but that's about to change....

Beachwood Sparks Announce First Album in over a Decade

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2012

Despite reforming in 2008, California psych-country providers Beachwood Sparks haven't released a full-length since 2001's Once We Were Tre...

Beachwood Sparks Reunite For Sub Pop 20, Record New Album

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2008

Thanks to Sub Pop's 20th anniversary, which takes place this weekend, a number of the label's long retired bands are reforming: the Vaselin...

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Make the Cowboy Robots Cry

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

This six-song EP from California psych-country crooners Beachwood Sparks continues in the languorous, almost dream-inducing vein of last ye...

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Once We Were Trees

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

Twangadelic Los Angeles quartet Beachwood Sparks still has it hard for Gram Parsons. At times, this sophomoric follow up to the band's epon...

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Beachwood Sparks

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

Careening between the Grateful Dead, Buffalo Springfield and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Beachwood Sparks manages to evoke many images of...