Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Folk and indie are genres that are incredibly difficult to define, but you'll know them when you hear them. Whether it's the ...

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 ...

The recent stomp clap discourse sparked a lot of conversations about how the divisive 2010s subgenre grew out of 2000s indie-folk, and the evolution (and “gentrification”) of the latter is actually ...

Only a few more lists to burn through before 2023 is over, and today we are looking at our favorite indie folk records of the year. It’s categorically one of our favorite genres, and these last 12 ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

Iron & Wine has officially announced a brand-new studio album, making 2026 a big year for fans of the indie folk icon. Due out on Feb. 27, 2026, the new album, Hen's Teeth marks the latest full-length ...

Redbud band brings a mix of folk genres to the Athens music scene. Redbud started in summer 2025 and is a three-piece band ...

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 ...

Indie folk has long been one of our favorite genres, as nebulous a descriptor as it may be. Take the acoustic instrumentation or structure of traditional folk and the sensibilities of modern indie ...

Detail of Indie Folk poster, hand-printed by Kevin Haas, WSU Fine Arts. PULLMAN, Wash. – The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University invites the Pullman campus and surrounding ...

A folk revival is brewing where one sputtered with a clap, a stomp, and a millennial whoop in the 2010s. Some of 2022’s best pay explicit homage to musical traditions, but others continue to push the ...