Swedish power-folk troupe Falconer have announced that From a Dying Ember will serve as the follow-up album to 2014's Black Moon Rising. It'll be the ninth record from the band and one that welcomes ...

Power-folk duo Bear Market Riot performs Friday at Mission Plaza in downtown San Luis Obispo as part of Concerts in the Plaza. Stephen Dummit When Bear Market Riot took the stage at Live Oak Music ...

Kris Kristofferson presents Bruce Cockburn with the inaugural Folk Alliance International People’s Voice Award during the opening-night awards ceremony at the organization’s 29th annual conference in ...

Modern-day pagans: Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’, Lady Gaga’s ‘911’, Travis Scott-MIA-Young Thug’s ‘Franchise’, and Sports Team’s ‘Happy (God’s Own Country)’ (iStock/The Independent) Get the inside track from ...

The UK's biggest folk big band by size - they boast 50-plus members - they've also just released their first ever promo video for the record's title track. Power Folk is being held on June 10 at ...

For 12 years Lau have been breaking down barriers with their intoxicating power folk. The noise around their new album suggests it may be their last, but it that really true, asks Jim Gilchrist Did ...

What Flint local Jim McTiernan hears in folk music, he feels, too. For musicians, he says it’s an empowerment and freedom to sing and write songs that come from deep within. And especially for him, it ...

Jimmy Buffett, the Black Crowes, Cat Power and Jakob Dylan are among the artists performing at this year's Newport Folk Festival, to be held Aug. 1-3 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. By ...

“It was that one time a long time ago when we were heading to the Boulder Creek in our big school bus that we were driving around on veggie oil,” Laurie Shook said. “Before we went to the creek, we ...