Folk music and folk-rock are genres that are still loved today, with bands like Deer Tick and Manchester Orchestra keeping the genres alive. However, there’s nothing quite like a good 70s folk rock ...

Psychedelic folk music is not dead. Plenty of bands are keeping the genre alive and doing a fine job of it, too. If you’re just now getting into psych-folk, or you’re a diehard fan in need of new ...

There’s something about sibling voices that harmonize especially well. I remember being enchanted the first time I heard my wife and her sisters and cousins sing together; their several voices blended ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Einar Selvik founded Wardruna in 2003, they effectively existed in a scene of one. While by no means the first band to ...

The reliably akilter folk punk act AJJ, returning to Space Ballroom in Hamden on Oct. 15, would seem to be a missing link between the wave of indie acts that defined the genre in the 1980s and ‘90s ...

Singer Eddie Keogh can’t quite convey how shocked he is by his band’s success. Because, it should be noted, Kingfishr plays Irish folk music. “It’s more likely that you would win the lotto,” Keogh ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

After a seven-year gap from producing a full-length album, British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons has returned to the music scene. The group’s homecoming is marked by the Friday release of its fifth ...

Tall Travis at the Dog House in South Burlington Credit: Luke Awtry On the morning of their Seven Days interview, the members of folk-punk band Tall Travis gathered at the location they’d chosen under ...