On March 28, 1970, beloved folk duo Simon & Garfunkel landed their third and final Billboard No. 1 single, "Bridge Over ...

Folk music is a genre committed to holding up a mirror to ourselves. Artists from other genres speak to humanity, yes, but they don’t do so as bare and unabashed as folkies. Below are three massively ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...