Folk is having a huge resurgence recently and there are plenty of bands championning the sound, these are the five you need ...
Apart from the popular grunge and Britpop scenes, many artists in the 1990s recorded folk rock songs that still sound new today.
Big Sur Folk Festival set, Linda Ronstadt announces The Early Years — with 2 rare live tracks from that 1970 performance.
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The Newport Folk Festival imagined a more equitable world — can that dream be revived?
Robert Gordon hopes his documentary "Newport & The Great Folk Dream" will remind artists today about the power of song.
These three folks songs tell harrowing and captivating tales that easily could be turned into successful true crime documentaries.
The Providence musician released his first album of Black mountain music during America’s racial reckoning. Amid Trump’s DEI purge and environmental collapse, his Afrofuturist folk hits different.
The Lumineers have played all the usual spots in Seattle — Neumos, The Crocodile, Tractor Tavern — but they have a sound that’s meant for filling stadiums, and on Saturday night that’s exactly what ...
While The Beatles embraced Dylan’s influence, Dylan himself saw the arrival of The Beatles as a sign that the folk-era was drawing to a close. Though he respected the Fab Four for pushing the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The seeds of the Ukrainian band Yа́gody were planted long before their official formation bore fruit. The group’s origins stretch back to 2010, when actor Mykola Huseynov proposed ...
Hsu Hsih (許石) never forgot the international student gathering he attended in Japan, where participants were asked to sing a ...
Joe Hickerson, folk musician and lead archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress, dies at 89
Hickerson enjoyed a long career as a folk musician and archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress. He died on August ...
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