Ian Noe went off the grid after releasing his 2022 album. Now he's ready to return with new album 'Canyon Falls Trailer Band.'

For years, private equity firms have snatched up the catalogues of music's biggest names. Now they're after independent labels.

Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'

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Nate Amos isn't sure how he became the kind of songwriter who gets covered by Hayley Williams and Cameron Winter, but he's seeing how far he can go

Later in life, she was heralded as a symbol of Americana—complete with her own amusement park. But what will last of her is her body of work.

Kam Franklin electrifies the eardrum and slithers into your soul on her genre-blending country funk album Land of the Neon Sun, writes Bee Delores

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Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

It's sort of a surreal time to be writing this newsletter. (Also, a surreal time to be alive I suppose but when isn't that the case…) For years now, Marissa and I have jointly been banging the drum: A...

Big Thief debuted an entire new album, 'Horsepower,' at the Ryman in Nashville, alongside Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent, and Lucinda Williams

Sometimes professional failure isn’t your fault.

The trio known as the Womack Sisters just released a self-titled , tour-de-force album that carries their family legacy.

Phoebe Bridgers' 'Lost Weekend,' her first new solo album in six years, is a spectacular song cycle on love and loss.

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings reflect on the making of Welch's 2001 album 'Time (The Revelator).'

Our tribute to Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who was so much more than the guy from 'Once' and the Swell Season

Our tribute to Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who was so much more than the guy from 'Once' and the Swell Season

Hayley Williams, Father John Misty, Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews, Wednesday, Tom Morello, and more of the best Newport Folk Festival 2026 performances

Newport Folk Fest is Mother, as the kids say. (Do the kids still say that?) Yup, before Bonnaroo, Burning Man, or Coachella — heck, before Woodstock — there was Rhode Island’s Newport Folk: Mother of ...

'Felice County Fair,' a tribute album to the Felice Brothers, will include Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lumineers, Bright Eyes.

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Charles revisits one of his favorite albums, on the occasion of its first-ever live performance

The Heat Will Kill You First tells the story of Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung, who died on a scalding hike with their one-year-old.

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Also: A live scene report featuring Fiery Furnaces and new music by the sad-bastard British band Swim Deep

Outlaws’ Almanac is a righteous and declarative gathering of contemporary and repurposed folk-roots freedom songs. Our review.

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Anthony Valles wanted to bring his 50-year-old dad back to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks' first NBA Finals in 27 years. They made it this week.

“KAT knows the ones we love never really leave. So do we,” said a Brooklyn memorial space hosting New Yorkers on game day.

Deer Tick's John McCauley talks about the band's new album, 'Coin-o-Matic,' going to rehab, and the band's embrace of Providence, Rhode Island.

When Luke Bryan released his new song 'Fish Hunt Golf Drink,' some questioned if it was made by AI. We talk to the human songwriters behind it.

When Luke Bryan released his new song 'Fish Hunt Golf Drink,' some questioned if it was made by AI. We talk to the human songwriters behind it.

Kurt Vile talks about his great new album, 'Philadelphia's Been Good to Me,' plus being "the working man's Neil Young" and more in our new interview

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Doug Berns, a.k.a. Duglust, writes and records original cover-song recaps after every Knicks game, win or lose. His fans include Ben Stiller

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