To Walker, folk is “storytelling of communal and/or cultural struggle.” Or cultural experience. He looked back at Black ...

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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English folk-punks Skinny Lister have just announced a number of U.S. festival, headline and support dates in the U.S. during March. Kicking off on March 11 in Austin, TX at the SXSW Music and Arts ...

Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...

A lone child in a Rubik’s Cube hoodie stood in the middle of the small black box space at Witch Bitch Thrift on Saturday night, trying and failing with a kendama, a Japanese wooden ball and stick toy.

The Violent Femmes treated a Wednesday night crowd at San Antonio’s Espee to run-throughs of its first two albums, demonstrating why the folk-punk act remains extremely influential more than 40 years ...

“I learned how to make music work because of punk rock.” That’s banjoist Mike Oberst from Cincinnati folk and string band the Tillers, which is set to play Oct. 18 at Yellow Cab Tavern. Special guest ...

Chicago folk-punk band Fugu Dugu have built their fan base with raucous, rousing live shows that dazzle indie-rock and folk audiences alike. Their fierce music deftly blends Eastern European ...

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 ...

“Hey Look! The men that hold the keys; don’t give a damn about you and me; And most of us are barely getting by; It seems that workers being exploited and the billionaires anointed; Are as American as ...