The main program for the 2025 Viljandi Folk Music Festival "Off the Ground!" has been announced. This year's lineup features 11 international artists, 36 Estonian performers, and 3 collaborative ...

Just as vinyl records have seen a revival, CDs are benefiting from a desire for physical media. In a digital age, people crave the tangible experience of owning music, including album artwork and ...

Legendary Vietnamese composer Lu Nhat Vu, known for iconic songs like "The Southern Land Song" and "Saigon Girl Carrying Ammunition," has passed away at the age of 87 in Ho Chi Minh City. Composer Lu ...

Folk music pioneer Michael Hurley, known as the "Godfather of freak folk," has died. He was 83. The singer's family shared news of his death on Thursday in a statement posted by Hurley's record ...

Lutenist/ theorbo player Albane Imbs works as a continuo player in a host of leading European early music and baroque ensembles. Les Kapsber’girls is the group into which the Strasbourg-born musician ...

The boss of a longstanding Leeds music shop has spoken about the “great revival” of compact disc (CD) sales in the city, as the country celebrates Record Store Day today. Did you know with a ...

but there’s also an unmistakable trace of trembling Conor Oberst influence in the music, a connection duly acknowledged by the band themselves. There are all kinds of other familiar touchpoints ...

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.

It’s the music that takes things from pleasant to powerful — not just indie folk’s earnest refrains, but the way everyone hides behind the songs’ pretense of candor while keeping their own ...

Case in point: this year's Winnipeg Folk Festival sees the artist born Katie Crutchfield up near the headliners' slot alongside the likes of Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit and Lake Street Drive.

In the vibrant landscape of South African music, a new star is rapidly gaining ... It is classified as African Folk because of its fragile, archaic storytelling style, raw, honest vocals, and ...