Chris Kompanek | Posted 10.03.2011
There's an aura around the Newport Folk Festival that intrigues me -- this is the place after all where Bob Dylan was booed off the stage for going electric -- so I decided to check it out this year.
Angora Holly Polo | Posted 08.03.2011
Music festivals are much like the Boy Scouts in that it's very important to be prepared. Here's how we have prepared ourselves for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 16th-19th.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 07.27.2011
This week, we feature music by Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Moby, and more.
Posted 05.25.2011
Big-name acts descend on Denver this week for what figures to be one of the best weeks for concerts in some time. The Decemberists, Interpol, Cotton ...
Rob Kirkpatrick | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not sure if this is The Decemberists' best album. But there's not a bad song in the bunch here, and it's clear The King Is Dead captures this Aughties folk-rock band hitting a groove.
Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011
In the dead of winter, great music is busting through the frozen underground. The mainstream acts may be arriving soon, but this week it's a perfect storm of indie bliss.
Allison K Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011
"I was not a very ambitious kid," says Carson Ellis as she begins what she calls the "unconventional" tale of how she came to be a professional illust...
NPR | Robin Hilton | Posted 05.25.2011
HarperCollins has signed Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy to a deal to write three novels for middle-school students....
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 05.25.2011
It's what frontman Colin Meloy did so well on past albums -- marrying an infectious melody with his lyrical and instrumental peccadilloes -- that makes this album listenable and loveable.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.27.2011