Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Folk and indie are genres that are incredibly difficult to define, but you'll know them when you hear them. Whether it's the ...

These three 2010s indie folk tracks are the perfect partners to a cold, rainy day. They sit with you best amid gloomy weather ...

A relatively new musical duo — Stucky Leigh — will be bringing its “cheeky indie-folk” songs to Poway. Will Stucky and Lauren Leigh will be the lead act for the San Diego Folk Heritage concert at 7:30 ...

Andy Tongren's unbridled optimism is infectious. The Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best ...

Bedrooms, street corners, showers, prisons, or even just a silent mind: Though songs can live anywhere, only a few make it to recording. Folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel said as much in 1966's "The ...

The recent stomp clap discourse sparked a lot of conversations about how the divisive 2010s subgenre grew out of 2000s indie-folk, and the evolution (and “gentrification”) of the latter is actually ...

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 ...

On April 19, Nashville-based artist Chrysalis unveiled their latest project, “Dog Songs,” an evocative exploration of change and resilience. Headed by the talented Indigo Ansin, Chrysalis is a ...

San Francisco singer-songwriter Anthony Arya released the single 'The Dress,' which fuses Laurel Canyon indie folk rock with indie pop influences.

A revival of earnest, old-fashioned American folk music developed in Greenwich Village and other places took hold in the early 1960s. By the middle of the decade, the influence of songs of both ...

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 ...