Folk music and beyond will once again breathe life into Fort Adams State Park this weekend at the Newport Folk Festival. Tickets sold out before the lineup was even announced, but those lucky enough ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

Bethlehem’s Musikfest returns for 2025 with live music on stages of many sizes. More than 300 performances will be held from July 31 to Aug. 10 on both the north and south sides of the city. Here is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...