The folk punk genre has its share of skeptics. Type the words into your Google search engine and plenty of derisive tropes and snarky memes will populate. But, maybe now more than ever, you’ll also ...

Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...

The Los Angeles-based singer Sunny War has an extensive background in both punk rock and Americana music, which has led some music critics and journalists to label her as “folk-punk.” What does that ...

Those who know me in real life can attest to a few things: First, that my astrological chart is 110% accurate, and second, that my music taste has become notably less listenable. In the days of yore, ...

With so much folk and folk-punk music out there today, it's nice to know that there's a group of musicians who are in it for the right reasons. The Riot Folk Collective gives away all of their music ...

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The back cover of You Don't Mess Around with Jim, a seminal album in the author's musical upbringing, which remains in pristine condition in his personal record collection Credit: Photo by Jesse ...

If you’re unfamiliar with UK folk punk Sam Russo but you’re a fan of some of the artists he’s shared the stage with like Frank Turner, Tim Barry, and Lucero, then you probably are gonna wanna hear Sam ...

Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot, the folk-punk duo behind the band High Tea, are always singing. “It’s probably a little obnoxious to anyone who’s not us,” DeHerdt joked in a recent interview with ...

From breakdowns both personal and interpersonal since election day, Thanksgiving’s gonna be all sorts of uncomfortable this year. Rather than burying your resentment in turkey and stuffing, you could ...

It was the early ’80s. Reagan was screwing around in Beirut, Mick Fleetwood was filing for bankruptcy, “Fraggle Rock” was instilling a love for radishes in children everywhere and a scrawny young ...