Joni Mitchell’s experimental period, Green Day’s ambitious concept album and Alice Coltrane’s thrilling 1971 Carnegie Hall concert arrived in new packages this year.
Category: Folk Music
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Timotheé Chalamet and the Stars of ‘A Complete Unknown’ Pack NYC Premiere: Photos
Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning and Edward Norton, stars of a new film tracing Bob Dylan’s ascent, packed a theater in Manhattan.
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Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.
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Sophie Straat Fights Gentrification With Folk Music
Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly expensive and homogenized city.
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Ella Jenkins, Musician Who Found an Audience in Children, Dies at 100
Performing and recording, she transformed what was seen as a marginal genre in the music industry into a celebration of shared humanity.
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Part-Time Farmers, Part-Time Rock Stars: A Chinese Band’s Unlikely Rise
The band, Varihnaz, has gained fans by offering an alternative to China’s hyper-polished, fast-paced modern life, with songs about pesticides and poultry raising.
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Barbara Dane, Who Fought Injustice Through Song, Dies at 97
She was highly regarded as a folk, blues and jazz singer. She was also ardently left-wing and prioritized social change over commercial success.
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10 Unforgettable Kris Kristofferson Covers
Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more.
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5 of My Most Anticipated Albums of the Fall
A new indie-rock supergroup, a fruitful (if unexpected) partnership, an alt-rock icon going solo and more.
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The Weeknd’s Glimmering Synth-Pop, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Soccer Mommy, FKA twigs, Reyna Tropical and others.
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A Nuanced, Unreleased Live Bob Dylan Cut, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Linkin Park, Halsey, Queen Naija and others.