Singer-songwriter Shayan Chowdhury Arnob has set out on a concert tour across the United States as part of the “Bangla Folk Rock Fest”, performing alongside his band Arnob and Friends in eight ...

The Godfather of freak folk, Michael Hurley, died on April 3 at the age of 83. His songs often mixed humor, unusual characters, and emotion and were also described as “outsider folk.” ...

The 5 Best Songs Of The Week April 18, 2025 4:55 PM By Stereogum Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right ...

As the seasons started to change, the music-business machinery began creaking back into action. The new Lady Gaga album and Chappell Roan single brought that superstar buzz, and the summer tour ...

Many folk songs “ring very true” today, McKenzie said: “There’s a very easy thread you can draw between what ordinary people were concerned about 100, 200 years ago, or whatever, ...

But the basics of the music remain the same: You need a great prom playlist for slow dancing, romantic love songs, and also a variety of jams you can dance to with your best friends. Given its ...

The best Earth Day songs ... (“Save The Whales”) – we scoured reggae, jazz, country, folk, soul, rock and pop for songs both disturbing and inspiring. Here’s to this amazing endangered ...

From Bad Bunny to Bon Iver, our inaugural round includes the expected hodgepodge of genres — pulsing guitar rock, Nelly Furtado–era pop, lean pop-punk, Puerto Rican folk — with most loosely ...

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Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

A synth begins like a lullaby on “History of Violence” before patiently building into an armor of metal drums and Michael Go’s thrashing guitars. “Is Heaven the only semblance of peace ...

UNESCO and NASA have both recognized the song as one of the world’s 10 best folk songs. But if you know nothing about Chinese culture, there’s a good chance you’ve heard this before — it was given ...