‘Bright Phoebus’: The stunning pagan Brit folk cult classic that you must hear before you die!*
*Sorry about the title, honest. Despite the fact that I do tend to mostly post about music here, and that we are, editorially speaking, an…
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Alan Arkin, folk singer
Alan Arkin’s been one of my favorite actors ever since I saw Wait Until Dark sometime in my tween years. With the help of a…
Trevor Billmuss: The psych-folk singer who released one delightfully strange LP and then vanished
When discussing rarely heard rock artists, the “enigma” word has certainly been overused, but British singer-songwriter Trevor Billmuss is truly a mysterious figure. After an…
Marc Bolan, Andy Warhol, Joan Jett & other famous folk with their dogs, for your election 2016 blues
A young Joan Jett and an adorable dog. Jett has gone on to dedicate much of her life to animal advocacy. If you’re a jittery…
Entire print run of crucial post-industrial/apocalyptic folk magazine ‘The Fifth Path’ is now online
The Fifth Path was a short-lived fanzine, produced sporadically between 1991 and 1994, that covered the post-industrial scene as well as the genre that later…
Meet Craig Smith, L.A. pop-folk golden boy turned lost psychedelic genius, then tragic acid casualty
Rock lore loves to romanticize the drug casualty. Of course it’s wrong, but it’s so hard to resist imagining the tantalizing might-have-beens that surround the…
‘Zarathustra,’ the avant-folk soundtrack to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970 Nietzsche adaptation
In 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky brought his adaptation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra to the stage in Mexico City. A creation for its time and place,…