With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s Folklore celebrates 260 weeks on the Billboard 200, ...

Crys Matthews won song of the year for "Sleeves Up." ...

A folk record unlike any other released this year has quietly risen to the top of the list for critics. Forefowk, Mind Me, the third album by Scottish artist Quinie, was recently named the best folk ...

Bruce Springsteen scores multiple Billboard wins with Tracks II and Lost and Found, as both reach the Top Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums charts together. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: Bruce ...

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have won Best Folk Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards for their LP Woodland. Welch and Rawlings ...

A University of California Santa Cruz alumna won a Grammy for "Best Folk Album." Gillian Welch, along with her partner David Rawlings, won for their album "Woodland" at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards ...

The golden era of folk music has been left in the 20th century. But that doesn’t mean new evolutions of the genre aren’t still keeping things alive today. In fact, in the 2020s, there was quite a ...

In retrospect, the 2010s were an underrated time for music. Pop was at its peak, garage rock was in full swing, and indie folk revival had put a modern spin on a classic genre. Let’s look at just a ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is saving the music industry. Well, maybe not quite. But his now famous — or perhaps infamous — folk EP, We Shall Overcome, is doing pretty well on the charts. Bernie ...