Folk Music

New Musical Dogfight Trades WW2 Sailors for Vietnam Marines

On the other town

Pete Seeger (5) And The Rapture (12) Bring SOTC's March Madness Tournament To The People

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>

CALIFORNIA STARS

A talented crew takes on Woody Guthrie

On Mirel Wagner and the Alleged Death and Apparent Spread of Freak Folk

Scattered cosmic dust

Q&A: Tim Robbins On Growing Up In The New York Music Scene And Giving Audiences Their Money's Worth

​ Tim Robbins is used to the spotlight. He won an Oscar for his role in Mystic River, directed the acclaimed Dead Man Walking, and is the kind of actor who makes The Shawshank Redemption, The Player, or the light-hearted Bill Durham worth rewatching. And who could forget his role as Bob Robert ... More >>

Q&A: Stephan Said On Creating A Generational Zeitgeist, Collapsing Genre Boundaries, And Meeting Allen Ginsberg

​ New York-based songwriter Stephan Said has played in punk bands, toured in Ween, worked as a migrant worker and befriended and worked with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger and Patti Smith. The Iraqi-American musician is a longtime grassroots organizer; he had a hand in the 1999 WTO d ... More >>

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Film Forum wishes Dylan a happy 70th

'Finnish Metal Tour 2'

Let's Play "Name Your Favorite Bob Dylan Song," Starring No Age, Robyn Hitchcock, DJ Rekha, Greg Dulli, And More

Naturally, this record shows up quite a bit​As our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City winds down, we thought we'd reach out to a bunch of musicians with a simple question: What's your favorite Dylan song?

The Sex Shop Near Where Bob Dylan Lived

Visiting Dylan-in-NYC landmarks on the 50th anniversary of his arrival here

A Word From Todd Snider: What Would You Say If You Met Bob Dylan?

"i'm hoping if i ever meet bob dylan that i don't end up pinned under a garage door."​To continue our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we've asked folk singer/jovial Renaissance Man Todd Snider for his thoughts on Dylan's legacy, and his intimidating ... More >>

Bob Dylan's New York City: Why It Never Got Better Than 1961

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we're rolling out a host of essays, videos, old Voice clips, and assorted fanfare. Here, professor, author, and critic David Yaffe explains why 1961 was the year Dylan could never forget, and never duplicate. A simpler time ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archives: Mods And Rockers Face Off In An Epic Orgy Of Stage-Crashing And Fruit-Throwing

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories about the man, the latter starting with this piece, first published on September 2, 1965, on the tension between Mods and Rockers at an early show during the divi ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

Clip Job: Joan Baez An Old Pro at 25

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 38 Joan Baez, Untrained Voice of Confidence By James Kempton She never stumbles She's got no place to fall --Dylan, "She Belongs to Me" It seems uncharitable to permit Bob Dylan the opening statement on Jo ... More >>

DYLAN ON DYLAN

You don’t need a weatherman to know that this may still blow

Clip Job: The Defend Bob Dylan Rally!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 7, 1965, Vol. X, No. 51 Dylan in October By Jack Newfield They booed Bob Dylan at Newport in July, they insulted him at Forest Hills in August, but last Friday at Carnegie Hall they screamed for more of his "rock folk" poetry ... More >>

Fanfarlo+Laura Marling (CMJ)

Mary Travers, Folkie Heart Throb, 1936-2009

The politically correct response among fans of bona-fide folk music to the astonishing success of Peter, Paul and Mary in the mid-1960's was to dismiss their glossy covers of "Blowin' In the Wind," and "If I Had a Hammer," as the fatal commercialization of a genuine American art form. On the othe ... More >>

Clip Job: Dylan Meets the Press

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 25, 1965, Vol. X, No. 23Dylan Meets the PressBy J.R. GoddardFour years ago a thin, aquiline-faced boy of 19 got off the subway from Hibbing, Minnesota, to come up for air in the Village, bearing with him no more than a battered guita ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Marta Topferova

News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

Tonight! Dave Brubeck, the Dead Science, Theodore Bikel, and the Low Anthem

In the 1950's, the Dave Brubeck Quartet began experimenting with time, particularly odd-meters and polyrhythms. The resulting compositions, which would have sunk lesser musicians, are Brubeck's most enduring works-- the wonky "Raggy Waltz," the luscious "Blue Rondo A La Turk," and "Take Five," wh ... More >>

Clip Job: Pete Seeger Banned by ABC

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 18, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 26Footnotes to 'Hootenanny'By Nat HentoffSingers Tom Paxton and Barbara Dane and the Greenbriar Boys (a bluegrass unit) have turned down appearances on ABC's "Hootenanny" series for the same reason that Joan Baez re ... More >>

THIS LAND IS PETE'S LAND

A progressive hero celebrates the 9-0 with a few friends

Camera Obscura's Misery Business

Scottish indie-pop guys and girls find happiness by not faking it

Marta Topferova

Possibly 4th Street 25: Akron/Family

Clip Job: Sing a Song, Sing It Loud...

Clip Job: Lay Off Folk Music!

Clip Job: The Menace of Folk Music

The New Weird America of Amanda Petrusich's It Still Moves

Don your hyphens, hipsters!

Things I Learned Watching I'm Not There

The Old, Weird America Marches Onward

Another great folk-music box targets everyday people who might even still be alive

Like a Complete Unknown: I'm Not There and the Changing Face of Bob Dylan on Film

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Channeling the Sixties

A mature woman revisits the music her young self loved, creating a rich solo dance journey

Bobby and Dave

Parallel folkies grapple with the times in a mythic Greenwich Village wonderland

Labor's Punk Songman

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

King of Jazz Benny Is Dead, Long Live King of Jazz Sonny

Pure Tones Deep Meanings

Kendra Shank Deserves Some Prime Time

Sincerest Flattery

Wear Your Lucinda Like Heaven

Music

Anchored by Ballads

Peggy Seeger, First Woman of Folk, Returns to New York

Flying Turkey Trot

El Fanático

The Ghost in the CD

Woody Guthrie's Second Life

Folksinger, Wordslinger, Start Me a Song

Just Folks