Mixing Byrds-ian jangle-pop with shouty garage punk, it's an unlikely but strangely successful combination.

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The entire album echoes many of guitarist Lewie's favorite artists, including The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, and The Doors.

NPR: El Goodo: 'Feel So Fine'

The Charlatans played mostly electrified folk music, a trend just getting underway, most notably with the Byrds in Los Angeles.

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Jorgenson, along with former Byrds guitarist Chris Hillman, founded the Desert Rose Band, which had a string of hit country songs in the '80s.

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He's collaborating on a series of special-edition guitars with musicians like Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, whose tricked-out 12-string comes, signed, in a black denim case.

FORBES: Stringing them along

They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds.

WSJ: Steven Van Zandt, a huge fan, reunites The Rascals

Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.

NPR: The Asteroid No. 4: 'Let It Go'

Over the past 40 years, he's written, arranged and played keyboards for everyone from The Byrds and The Grateful Dead to Ringo Starr, Judy Collins, Paul Revere and the Raiders and U2.

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