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 ...

There was a period when music from the 1990s sounded dated until enough time had passed for it to become retro. But apart from the popular grunge and Britpop scenes, many artists recorded folk rock ...

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 ...

When we want something that will shake our skulls from our spines, we’ll listen to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, or The Who. If we want the opposite, we’ll listen to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, or Cat ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of ...

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 ...