From the outside looking in, Newport Folk Festival has become increasingly defined by headline-grabbing performances. This year it was Beck’s surprise covers set and Conan O’Brien bringing out Jack White. Last year it was the Lana […]
Jack White made a surprise appearance at Newport Folk Fest on Sunday, joining his friend Conan O’Brien to perform “We’re Going to Be Friends.” The performance came as part of O’Brien’s collaborative set, billed as […]
The 65th Newport Folk Festival kicked off Frinday, and along with performances by Adrianne Lenker, Wednesday, MUNA, and more, festival-goers were treated to a surprise set by Beck. Taking the Quad Stage in the afternoon […]
Get on familiar terms with folk musicians in “First Names in Folk,” a new mini edition of the Consequence Crossword. New crosswords appear every Tuesday and in every weekend edition of the free Consequence Newsletter, […]
Decca Records are proud to announce the release of PSYCH! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 through the legendary Deram label. This newly compiled 64 song 3CD set celebrates an extraordinary era in British […]
Monsters of Folk will reissue their debut—and only—album on June 14, adding five unreleased songs recorded in a 2012 session, three years after the album. Listen to one of them, “Disappeared,” below. In addition to […]
Welcome back to Crate Digging, our recurring feature that dives into music history and turns up several albums that all music fans should know. In this edition, John Oates gives us his list of the […]
She & Him’s M. Ward, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis are celebrating the 15th anniversary of their supergroup, Monsters of Folk, and the release of their self-titled […]
Joni Mitchell has won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, with Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) winning over albums by Dom Flemons (Traveling Wildfire), the Milk Carton Kids (I Only See the Moon), […]
Joni Mitchell will be performing at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4. It’ll be the first time that the 18-time nominee takes the stage at the ceremony. The other performers at the 2024 […]
JEOPARDY! contestants have disappointed viewers after they couldn’t answer a seemingly easy question. Fans of Jeopardy! blasted tonight’s players, Michael Vaz, Karen Morris, and Iris Masucci, for their simultaneous strikeout. 5 Jeopardy! fans were fed […]
When Steeleye Span ended their most recent tour with a sold-out show at Cadogan Hall in London, they began it with The Green Man, a song about environmental concerns written by their former guitarist Bob […]
Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots. A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter […]
In August 2016, John Francis Flynn was booked for a lucrative residency on a Disney cruise ship, performing with a band at an imitation Irish pub themed on the leprechaun-heavy 1959 film Darby O’Gill and […]
The lineup was remarkable, with rock and folk musicians including Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Sam Lee, James Yorkston and Martin Simpson joining in on Strolling Down the Highway, from Bert Jansch’s 1965 debut album. It […]
Photos by Dean Budnick The 2023 edition of the Newport Folk Festival concluded yesterday, Sunday, July 30, marking a significant milestone for the Newport Festivals Foundation, which had recently revised its mission to focus on […]
Belfast is in many ways still a deeply divided city, but last week young people from Catholic and Protestant communities – who live apart and go to religiously segregated schools – played music together at […]
My Morning Jacket were joined by a very special guest during their Friday set at Newport Folk Fest: Animal. The Electric Mayhem member sat in with the band for their set-ending performance of “One Big […]
It’s been 20 years since she picked up her first acoustic guitar, but folk singer Raye Zaragoza says she still fields the occasional quizzical look from strangers. “When I first started playing folk music, people […]
Devendra Banhart is finally embracing being a “freak folk” hero. The Venezuelan American singer’s whimsical tunes and eccentric looks led to him being crowned one of the leaders of the ‘genre’ by fans, and the […]