With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions infiltrate the ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

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The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...

Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot, the folk-punk duo behind the band High Tea, are always singing. “It’s probably a little obnoxious to anyone who’s not us,” DeHerdt joked in a recent interview with ...

An older entry on our list of iconic psychedelic folk bands, The Incredible String Band took the concept of “psychedelic folk” literally. Their music can only be described as what you’d hear from a ...