folk music
Michigan Folk Legend Chris Bathgate Returns with 'Dizzy Seas'
His first full-length album in five years is out Friday.
Essay: Growing Up in the Mississippi Delta Made Me a Musician | #50StatesofArt
Cyle Barnes, frontman for The Weeks, reflects on his upbringing in the deep South.
The British Masters, Series 3 Chapter 2: Shirley Collins
After David Rodigan kicked off the new series last week, folk legend Collins talks to us about reclaiming her voice from decades of silence.
Laura Marling Took a Gap Yah from Music to Become a Yoga Teacher
So what other LA things did get up to while making her beautiful new album?
Immersive Scottish Theater Teleports People to Hell
'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart' combines Celtic folklore and Kylie Minogue.
The Long, Strange Hunt for the Folk Singer Who Thought He Was the Next Messiah
It took author Mike Stax 15 years to make sense of the life and times of the musician Craig Smith, who was on the brink of fame before something inside him snapped.
Meet A-WA, the Israeli Sister Trio Merging Yemenite Folk Songs and Electronic Beats
After scoring a number one hit on Israeli pop charts, the group looks to conquer North America.
Watch Joanna Newsom Perform "A Pin-Light Bent" on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers'
She also gives a hilarious interview with Seth.
VICE Exclusive: Listen to the Dark Folk Music Stylings of Adam Torres
"The Butlers and the Maids" is an American bar song in the tradition of Tom Waits or a bizarro Leonard Cohen.
VICE Exclusive: Listen to Jake Klar's New Track, 'Hotel Town'
Put your suspenders on, pack a nice lip of tobacco, and go sit with paw paw on the porch while you listen.
Manu Chao Is Music's Last True Radical
Peter Culshaw has trailed the enduring troubadour from a Saharan refugee camp to a mental asylum in Argentina and still doesn't quite know how to nail him down.
Listen to East of the Wall's Prog Meltdown Cover of a Nick Drake Song
"River Man," from Drake's 1969 album Five Leaves Left, has been previously covered by folk and jazz musicians, but this prog metal twist will take you by surprise.