Folk-Rock News

The three-date event that takes place from August 19 at Baskerville Hall near Hay-On-Wye, Wales.

Music City Texas Theater in Linden, Texas, has developed a reputation for bringing great talent from all parts of the country to the cozy venue in the pines.

Save $200 on the first multi-room digital music system that lets you play all your digital music, all over your house, with control from the palm of your hand.

Exorcizing demons can be a full-time job, especially when they are the personal kind.

Things are not always as they seem. Listen closely to Derek Webb's latest album, "I See Things Upside Down," and you'll get the idea.

Jen Chapin, the opening act in a two-week series of music, film and theatre based on promoting "Tolerance and Reconciliation," started off her portion of Spring ARTSfest with a bang.

Color me impressed. Despite an inauspicious venue and a weekend jam-packed with other activities, Richmond-based band Carbon Leaf put on an engaging, energetic show last Saturday night at Phi Beta Kappa ...

Granian is Garen Gueyikian in the same manner that Dinosaur Jr. was J. Mascis. In other words, Gueyikian is the force behind Granian.

Will Oldham has been fucking with fans perception of him for the past decade. Oldham, the Kentuckian folk/country musician behind the Bonnie Prince Billy moniker - as well as the Palace franchise - mixes the ...

The number of people on a waiting list for organs in the Upper Midwest still far outnumbers donations, an organ procurement group says.

African-American gay male ensemble The Adodi Muse ("Ain't Got Sense Enuf to Be 'Shamed"), one-woman band Melissa Ferrick ("The Other Side") and the world's most famous trans star, RuPaul ("Red Hot"), rock this ...

Barbara Paul's newest photographs of the country are nothing short of visually fantastic.

I speak to Brian Kennedy as he's doing his shopping in a well known Irish superstore.

Readers get all gushy. Workers' Playtime: A slave to the trappings of urban bachelorhood, Fray Editor prefers the indicting, unsentimental Billy Bragg interpretation on this farkakte holiday, but will gladly ...

Following a seven-hour drive from Ohio, singer/songwriter Anne E. DeChant had enough in her to light up the stage at the Steel City Coffee House Friday evening.

You don't have to wait until St. Patrick's Day to show your Irish this year. On Jan.

It's not uncommon for a mom to come up after one of Justin Roberts' family concerts and say something like, "My 5-year-old loves your music, but my husband is the real fan." A former member of the popular Twin ...

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When the Strokes arrived here from New York four years ago, sparking a return to raw, punky values in rock music, embarrassingly there wasn't a single decent British band fit to join the charge.

The Urban Hillbilly Quartet (UHQ) brings its stimulating blend of rock/alt-country/folksy blues to the Mabel Tainter Theater on Saturday, Jan.

A few months before her major label debut Night Bugs hit record stores, I saw Sarah Slean play a little campus bar about the size of a living room.

Ukraine says it plans to pull its 1,600 troops out of Iraq in the first half of this year.

Archer Records will release a live CD/DVD recording of folk artist Sid Selvidge on March 29.

ELVENKING, who were recently rejoined by singer Damnagoras, have completed the songwriting process for their upcoming third album and are now finalizing the last details concerning the recordings, mixing and ...

Barry Feinstein was the exclusive tour photographer on Bob Dylan and The Band's legendary 1966 and 1974 World Tours.

For many, with the coming of Jan. 1, the holiday season was officially over. For others, it has just begun.

The Innocence Mission's own compositions are some of the loveliest in modern pop.

Bluebird Cafe in the Round w/Celia Whitler and others, 6:30 p.m., free; In the Round w/Thom Schuyler and others, 9:30 p.m., $10. Bluebird Cafe, 4104 Hillsboro Road, 383-1461. Tim Carroll w/Shawn Byrne and Gigi ...

Inspired by the songs of Pete Seeger and The Weavers, 'folk' music, found its greatest expression during the early 1960s in the songs of an emerging Greenwich Village group known as Peter, Paul and Mary.

It's always fairly sad to see bands who were big in the 70s trying to relive their glory days 30 years later.

Freedom is on the march (I like how I can say that with a straight face). Yes, without any of the pre-emptive invasions, governing councils or insurgencies that we have associated with advancing freedom, the ...

Everybody knows John, Paul, George and Ringo. The latter four are the central characters of "Pearls Before Swine," a 3-year-old comic strip that appears in The Register-Guard and more than 175 other newspapers ...

Massachusetts singer Melissa Ferrick was once heralded as the next Jewel (because of her music) or Liz Phair (because of her lyrics). Yet even a contract with Atlantic Records and a stamp of approval from ...